Colonial West Africa: Collected EssaysRoutledge, 11.1.2013 - 352 sivua 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. |
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II BACKGROUND TO THE SCRAMBLE 1968 | 26 |
III WEST AFRICAN RESISTANCE 1971 | 45 |
IV BAI BUREH AND THE SIERRA LÉONE HUT TAX WAR OF 1898 1970 | 61 |
V BLAISE DIAGNE AND THE RECRUITMENT OF AFRICAN TROOPS FOR THE 191418 WAR 1967 | 104 |
VI THE WHITE CHIEFS OF TROPICAL AFRICA 1970 | 122 |
THE REBELLION OF 1915 1974 | 151 |
VIII THE FRENCH SUPPRESSION OF THE 191617 REVOLT IN DAHOMEYAN BORGU 1975 | 179 |
X WEST AFRICAN CHIEFS 1970 | 209 |
THE COLONIAL SITUATION 1974 | 231 |
XII COLONIAL BACKWATER 19561957 | 259 |
XIII VICHY AND FREE FRANCE IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1970 | 268 |
194460 1965 | 283 |
FACTOR FOR DIVISION OR UNITY? 19651971 | 314 |
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IX INDIRECT RULE FRENCH AND BRITISH STYLE 1964 | 198 |
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