Michael Crowder

West Africa Under Colonial Rule (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000958119
• Artikelnr.: 68342580

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

Part 1: West Africa and Colonial Rule. 1. Introduction. 2. The Origins of
European Imperialism and the Rise of Militant Islam 3. Background to the
Scramble Part 2: The European Occupation of West Africa 1. The French
Conquest of the Western Sudan 2. The completion of the French Occupation of
West Africa 3. The British Occupation of Nigeria 4. The British Occupation
of the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and The Gambia Part 3: The Establishment of
Colonial Rule 1. Administration in Theory and Practice 2. The
Administration of French West Africa 3. British Administration in West
Africa 4. Indirect Rule in Practice Part 4: The Germans and West Africa 1.
Togo, the Model Colony 2. West Africa and the 1914-18 War Part 5: The
Colonial Economy 1. Colonial Development and Commercial Exploitation 2.
Lebanese and Monopolists 3. Government and Economy in the Inter-War Years
Part 6: Social Change 1. Migration and the New Towns 2. The Economic Impact
of Colonial Rule 3. Islam and Christianity 4. Western Education 5. The
Colonial European Part 7: The Beginnings of Modern African Politics 1. The
Origins of Protest 2. French West African Politics, 1919-39 3. Politics in
British West Africa, 1920-39 4. Prelude to De-Colonisation: The Second
World War. Appendices. Maps.