ABSTRACT
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Economic relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 3|22 pages
Background to annexation
Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700–1891
chapter 4|13 pages
Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa c. 1780–1938
A quantitative analysis
part II|71 pages
Southern Europe and Germany
part III|76 pages
France
chapter 10|24 pages
The place and role of the players in colonial expansion
France and east Africa in the nineteenth century
chapter 11|22 pages
Commercial presence, colonial penetration
Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth century
