West Africa Under Colonial Rule
West Africa Under Colonial Rule

Author: Michael Crowder

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-07

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1000958116

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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. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the colonialists that their rule was generally beneficial. Penetrating descriptions of the colonial economic system are given, and the quality of colonial administration is analysed, as well as the impact of two World Wars.

West Africa before the Colonial Era
West Africa before the Colonial Era

Author: Basil Davidson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1317882652

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This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.

African History: A Very Short Introduction
African History: A Very Short Introduction

Author: John Parker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-03-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0192802488

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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)

Author: Timothy Stapleton

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1648250254

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"West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia placing it within a broader social context and emphasizing, as far as possible, the experience of the ordinary soldier. The aim is not to describe the many battles and campaigns fought by this force but to look at the development of the West African colonial army as an institution over the course of about a century. In pursuing this goal, it is sometimes useful to employ the lens of military culture defined differently by scholars but essentially meaning a set of shared ideas and behaviors that inform daily life in the military. While other locally recruited colonial militaries in Africa have attracted considerable attention from historians as they served as an essential pillar supporting European rule, this book represents the first comprehensive scholarly study of Britain's West African army which was the largest such British-led force south of the Sahara. The study is based on extensive archival research conducted in nine archives located in five countries"--

Colonial West Africa
Colonial West Africa

Author: Michael Crowder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1135781397

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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. Key themes include the impact of European culture on African culture; the resistance of Africans to European conquest; African reaction to colonial rule; the differences between French and British administrative, social and economic politices and the consequences of these differences for those subjected to them; the extent to which Africans accepted the new socio-political strucrrues imposed on them and the point at which they began to take control over them; and finally the importance or otherwise of the colonial period in African history as a whole.

West Africa before the Colonial Era
West Africa before the Colonial Era

Author: Basil Davidson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1317882644

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This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.

Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa
Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa

Author: Robert Sydney Smith

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780299123345

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This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies.