The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 8, From c.1940 to c.1975 / edited by Michael Crowder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crowder, Michael, 1934-1988, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--History--20th century.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 1011 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Summary:

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Crowder

The Second World War: prelude to decolonisation in Africa / Michael Crowder

Decolonisation and the problems of independence / Billy J. Dudley

Pan-Africanism Since 1940 / Ian Duffield

Social and cultural change / J.D.Y. Peel

The economic evolution of developing Africa / Adebayo Adedeji

Southern Africa / Francis Wilson

English-speaking West Africa / David Williams

East and Central Africa / Cherry Gertzel

The Horn of Africa / Christopher Clapham

Egypt, Libya and the Sudan / Hans-Heino Kopietz and Pamela Ann Smith

The Maghrib / Clement Henry Moore

French-speaking tropical Africa / Ruth Schachter Morgenthau and Lucy Creevey Behrman

Madagascar / Bonar A. Gow

Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi / M. Crawford Young

Portuguese-speaking Africa / Basil Davidson.

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ISBN:

9781139054621 (ebook)

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