Volume VI of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts of land and valuable mineral resources. At the same time, it was a period during which much of Africa still had a history of its own. Colonial governments were very weak and could exist only by playing a large part both in opening up the continent to outside influences and in building larger political unities. The volume begins with a survey of the whole of Africa on the eve of the paper partition, and continues with nine regional surveys of events as they occured on the ground. Only in northern and southern Africa did these develop into classical colonial forms, with basis of outright conquest. Elsewhere, compromises emerged and most Africans were able to pursue the politics of survival. Partition was a process, not an event. The process was essentially one of modernisation in the face of outside challenge.
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'Volume six ... shows that Africans continued to make their own history even during the troubled years between 1870 and 1905 when much of the continent fell under colonial domination ... [It] attempts to be a history of Africa between 1870 and 1905 and not just a history of colonialism.' The Times Literary Supplement
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The five and a half centuries described in this volume during the period from c. 1050 to c. 1600, were those in which Iron Age cultures passed from their early and experimental phases into stages of maturity characterized by long-distance trade and complex, many-tiered political systems.
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It has become a truism of historical writing to conceive of Africa in the course of the nineteenth century as becoming increasingly apart of, and a product of, the expansion of Europe, which, beginning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, had integrated ever larger areas of the world into a single economic system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bakungu chiefs, manipulated social imperialism, ivory frontier, mine magnates, white diggers, western slave coast, interlacustrine region, diamond discoveries, imperial factor, znd series, chapel farms, caravan porters, first scramble, mine labour, missionary factor, white enterprise, effective occupation, trading diasporas, rinderpest epidemic, indigenous reactions, labour recruiters, hut tax, colonial party, informal empire, mining capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Leone, Congo State, Gold Coast, Griqualand West, Southern Rhodesia, Foreign Office, King Leopold, Cape Town, Lake Malawi, Porto Novo, Tippu Tip, Colonial Office, Orange Free State, Congo Independent State, Lake Tanganyika, Ivory Coast, Lord Salisbury, Bantu Africa, Berlin Conference, Lake Victoria, New Haven, Red Sea, Great Britain, North Africa, British Central Africa New!
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It has become a truism of historical writing to conceive of Africa in the course of the nineteenth century as becoming increasingly apart of, and a product of, the expansion of Europe, which, beginning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, had integrated ever larger areas of the world into a single economic system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bakungu chiefs, manipulated social imperialism, ivory frontier, mine magnates, white diggers, western slave coast, interlacustrine region, diamond discoveries, imperial factor, znd series, chapel farms, caravan porters, first scramble, mine labour, missionary factor, white enterprise, effective occupation, trading diasporas, rinderpest epidemic, indigenous reactions, labour recruiters, hut tax, colonial party, informal empire, mining capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Leone, Congo State, Gold Coast, Griqualand West, Southern Rhodesia, Foreign Office, King Leopold, Cape Town, Lake Malawi, Porto Novo, Tippu Tip, Colonial Office, Orange Free State, Congo Independent State, Lake Tanganyika, Ivory Coast, Lord Salisbury, Bantu Africa, Berlin Conference, Lake Victoria, New Haven, Red Sea, Great Britain, North Africa, British Central Africa New!
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