Michael Crowder

Colonial West Africa (eBook, PDF)

Collected Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135781323
• Artikelnr.: 45131706

Autorenporträt

Michael Crowder worked for most of his adult life in West africa, mainly in Nigeria. He was visiting Professor at the University of Lagos, Professor of History at Ahmadu Bello University and founder of the Centre of Nigerial Cultural Studies. He was Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife and visiting lecturer at the UCLA Berkeley and Columbia University. In 1964 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Senegal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. West Africa and the Europeans: Five Hundred Years of Direct Contact
(1971) 2. Background to the Scramble. (1968); 3.West African Resistance
(1971); 4. Bai Bureh and the Sierra Leone Hut Tax War of 1898 (1970); 5.
Blaise Diagne and the Recruitment of African Troops for the 1914-18 War.
(1967) 6. The White Chiefs of Tropical Africa (1970) 7. The Imposition of
the Native Authority System in Bussa: The Rebellion of 1915 (1974); 8.The
French Suppression of the 1916-17 Revolt in Dahomey an Borgu (1975) 9.
Indirect rule - French and British style(1964) 10. West African Chiefs
(1970) 11. West Africa 1919 - 1939: The Colonial Situation. (1974) 12.
Colonial Backwater (1956/1957) 13. Vichy and Free France in West Africa
during the Second World War 14. Independence as a goal in French West
African Politics: 1944-60 (1965) 15. Colonial Rule in West Africa: Factor
for Division or Unity? (1965/1971).