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Author Laumann, Dennis, 1970- author.

Title Colonial Africa 1884-1994 / Dennis Laumann, University of Memphis.

Publication Info. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  960.3 L37c 2019    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Second edition.
Description xxiv, 102 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series African world histories
African world histories.
Contents Chapter 1: Economics -- Abolition and "legitimate commerce" -- Informal colonialism -- Scramble for Africa -- Colonial economy -- Railways -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Administration -- District officers, intermediaries, and missionaries -- Models of colonial rule -- Ethniciy and gender -- Religion and politics -- Comparative colonialism -- Settler colonies -- Chapter 3: Violence -- Conquest and resistance -- Uprisings and atrocities -- World wars -- Armed liberation struggles -- Chapter 4: Liberation -- Pan-Africanism -- Second World War impact -- Marxism -- South Africa.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Colonial Africa, 1884-1994, Second Edition, presents a balanced, accessible, and comprehensive overview of how Africans experienced European colonial rule. This brief and affordable text is organized in a "layered" approach that gives students a deeper insight into the ways in which Africans encountered, shaped, confronted, depicted, and ended colonialism.
Subject Africa -- Colonization.
Africa -- History -- 1884-1960.
Africa -- History -- 1960-
Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Chronological Term Since 1884
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Africa 1884-1994
ISBN 9780190647520 (pbk.)
0190647523

 
    
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