Britain In Africa

Author : Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911307730

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Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa by Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen Pdf

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power. Praise for Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa '…this ambitious volume represents a significant step forward for the field. As is often the case with rich and stimulating work, the volume gestures towards more themes than I have space to properly address in this review. These include shifting terrains of temporality, spatial Scales, and state sovereignty, which together raise important questions about the relationship between decolonization and globalization. By bringing all of these crucial issues into the same frame,Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa is sure to inspire new thought-provoking research.' - H-France vol. 17, issue 205

Author : Kenneth Kirkwood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421432328

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Britain and Africa by Kenneth Kirkwood Pdf

Originally published in 1965. This book is about the association between Britain and Africa. The book begins with the British entry into Africa and the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the principal foci of power before 1914. The book next treats the quarter century from the First World War until the outbreak of the Second. The book then discusses the period of the Second World War, its aftermath, and the time period contemporaneous with the book's publication. The author's personal experiences and observations shortly before and during the Second World War in different parts of Africa convinced him at the time that the years 1939–1945 marked a decisive watershed. After the historical chapters, the author examines the three major zones of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter considers the major international associations of which Britain is a member and with which it operates in African affairs in the aftermath of colonialism.

Author : David Killingray,Martin Plaut
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847010476

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Fighting for Britain by David Killingray,Martin Plaut Pdf

Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy, and Burma. Looks at the impact of army life and travel on the men and their families, and the role of ex-servicemen in post-war nationalist politics.

Author : Roy Lewis,Yvonne Foy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003970582

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The British in Africa by Roy Lewis,Yvonne Foy Pdf

Author : Danielle Beswick,Jonathan Fisher,Stephen R. Hurt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526160331

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Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Beswick,Jonathan Fisher,Stephen R. Hurt Pdf

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour government.

Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B685985

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Britain Across the Seas: Africa by Harry Johnston Pdf

Author : Derek R. Peterson
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821443057

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Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic by Derek R. Peterson Pdf

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors—slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs—played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation. Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals’ benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholarship about the nature of modern empires. Contributors: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon Glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, Phillip D. Morgan, Derek R. Peterson, John K. Thornton

Author : Rosalind Coffey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030894566

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The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa by Rosalind Coffey Pdf

This book provides fresh insights into how the British press affected both British perceptions of decolonisation in Africa and British policy towards it during the ‘wind of change’ period. It also reveals, for the first time, the extent to which British newspaper coverage was of relevance to African and white settler readerships. British newspapers informed the political strategies and civic cultures of African activists, nationalists, liberal whites in Africa, the staunchest of white settler communities, and the first governments of independent African states and their opponents. The British press, British public opinion and British journalists became etched into the lived experiences of the end of empire affecting Anglo-African and Anglo-settler relations to this day. Arguing that the press cast a transnational web of influence over the decolonisation process in Africa, the author explores the relationships between the British, African and settler public and political spheres, and highlights the mediating power of the British press during the late 1950s. The book draws from a range of British newspapers, official government documents, newspaper archives, interviews, memoirs, autobiographies and articles printed in African and white settler papers. It will be of interest to historians of decolonisation, Africa, the media and the British Empire.

Author : Barbara Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134722440

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Imperialism, Race and Resistance by Barbara Bush Pdf

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history. Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora. Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.

Author : Tom Porteous
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848134942

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Britain in Africa by Tom Porteous Pdf

Why has Africa become such an important priority for Britain's foreign policy under New Labour? What interests and values is the UK seeking to uphold by intervening? Why has aid to Africa more than tripled over the past decade? How has the UK's involvement in the War on Terror affected its efforts there? In Britain in Africa Tom Porteous seeks to answer these and other questions about Britain's role in Africa since 1997. He provides an account of the key players, the policies they constructed in the shadow of the war in Iraq and the future of Britain's engagement with the continent. This book sets out the balance sheet of what Britain has achieved, and where and why it failed in Africa. A compelling read, whose importance for international politics reaches far beyond Britain or Africa.

Author : Yale University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760383063

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France and Britain in Africa by Yale University Pdf

Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1451006845

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Britain Across the Seas Africa by Harry Johnston Pdf

Excerpt from Britain Across the Seas Africa: A History and Description of the British Empire In view of the great developments of the British Empire in Africa since the commencement of the Twentieth Century, it was thought desirable by the National Society that a concise history of this racial enterprise should be published, which would not be too abstruse for young students (whose previous knowledge of Africa might be assumed to be elementary), nor yet too lacking in technical information to be of service to those who had left studenthood behind, but desired to learn rapidly how all these things came to pass in this Continent of black, white, and yellow peoples. The book was to be written as far as possible without national or party bias. How far I have accomplished these aims I must leave it to the fair-minded reader to decide. I have been left quite unfettered by the National Society, and the opinions herein expressed are my own, though I trust that they are coincident with the actual truth, so far as that truth can be realized whilst the nearer events of African history are not yet properly focussed by time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Zine Magubane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226501772

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Bringing the Empire Home by Zine Magubane Pdf

How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa? Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to answer questions such as these. Before the mid-1800s, black Africans were considered savage to the extent that their plight mirrored England's internal Others—women, the poor, and the Irish. By the 1900s, England's minority groups were being defined in relation to stereotypes of black South Africans. These stereotypes, in turn, were used to justify both new capitalist class and gender hierarchies in England and the subhuman treatment of blacks in South Africa. Bearing this in mind, Zine Magubane considers how marginalized groups in both countries responded to these racialized representations. Revealing the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender, Bringing the Empire Home demonstrates how much black Africans taught the English about what it meant to be white, poor, or female.

Author : David Killingray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136300066

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Africans in Britain by David Killingray Pdf

This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years

Author : George Padmore
Publisher : Wishart Books Limited
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042953565

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How Britain Rules Africa by George Padmore Pdf