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The Cambridge History of Africa Vol. 8: From c. 1940 to c. 1975

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From c. 1940 to c. 1975

Series The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 8

Edited by Michael Crowder

Publication Date 1984

Hardback ISBN-10
0521224098

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521224093

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521224093

Overview

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-1975. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. Special attention is paid in the chapters on Southern Africa and East and Central Africa to the problems posed by the continued role of white minority regimes in the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia under UDI and Namibia. In the independent countries the limitations imposed on their options - political and economic - by poverty, population growth and the continued commercial domination of the former colonial powers and their allies, are analysed in the context of current theories of dependence and underdevelopment. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditioins - history, political science, economics and sociology - and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate, and for which the primary sources are still largely unavailable. Rather they reflect the variety of views and vigour of scholarship that have been brought to bear on a continent for which scholarly concern has itself been a comparatively recent development.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
From c. 1940 to c. 1975 in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Michael Crowder

The Second World War: prelude to decolonisation in Africa
by
Michael Crowder

Decolonisation and the problems of independence
by
Billy J. Dudley

Pan-Africanism Since 1940
by
Ian Duffield

Social and cultural change
by
J. D. Y. Peel

The economic evolution of developing Africa
by
Adebayo Adedeji

Southern Africa
by
Francis Wilson

English-speaking West Africa
by
David Williams

East and Central Africa
by
Cherry Gertzel

The Horn of Africa
by
Christopher Clapham

Egypt, Libya and the Sudan
by
Hans-Heino Kopietz and Pamela H. Smith

The Maghrib
by
Clement Henry Moore

French-speaking tropical Africa
by
Ruth Schachter Morgenthau and Lucy Creevey Behrman

Madagascar
by
Bonar A. Gow

Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi
by
M. Crawford Young

Portuguese-speaking Africa
by
Basil Davidson

Bibliographical essays

Bibliography

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