From Slave Trade to Empire (eBook, PDF)

European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
Redaktion: Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a new perspective on the colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century and focuses on the role of Germany, France, Italy and Portugal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135765897
• Artikelnr.: 42982997

Autorenporträt

Olivier Pétré-Grenouileau is Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Lorient. He has worked extensively on the French slave trade and French maritime expansion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A missing link? The significance of the Years 1780s-1880s - Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
Lorient University and the Institut Universitaire de France
Paris Part One: Economic Relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: a Global Weighing up 2. African and European Relations in the Last Century of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - David Eltis
Emory University
USA 3. Background to Annexation: Anglo-African Credit Relations in the Bight of Biafra
1700-1891 - David Richardson
Hull University
UK 4. Economic Relations between Europe and Black Africa c. 1780-1938. A Quantitative Analysis - Bouda Etemad
Lausanne and Geneva Universities
Switzerland Part Two: Southern Europe and Germany: About the 'Imperialism of the Poor' and the Desire for Power 5. An Imperialism with no Economic Basis: the Case of Italy
1869-1939 - Romain Rainero
Milan University
Italy 6. The Continental Drift: the Independence of Brazil (1822)
Portugal and Africa - Luis Felipe de Alencastro
Paris-IV Sorbonne University
France) 7. The Portuguese Empire (1825-1890): Ideology and Economics - Valentim Alexandre
Lisbon University
Portugal 8. The Scramble for Africa: icon and idiom of modernity - Albert Wirz
Humboldt University
Berlin and Andreas Eckert
Hamburg University
Germany Part Three: France: From a Civilising Mission to the Highest Form of Mercantilism? 9. Cultural Systems of Representations
Economic Interests and French Penetration into Black Africa 1780s-1880s Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
Lorient University and the Institut Universitaire de France
Paris 10. The Place and Role of the Players in Colonial Expansion: France and East Africa in the Nineteenth Century - Valérie Valey
Lorient University 11. Commercial Presence
Colonial Penetration: Traders of Marseilles in West Africa in the Nineteenth Century - Xavier Daumalin
Aix-Marseille University
France