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How colonialism preempted modernity in Africa
Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and
globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought
modernity to Africa, Olúfémi Táíwò claims that Africa was already becoming
modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Africans aspired to liberal
democracy and the rule of law, but colonial officials aborted those efforts when
they established indirect rule in the service of the European powers. Táíwò looks
closely at modern institutions, such as church missionary societies, to recognize
African agency and the impulse toward progress. He insists that Africa can get back
on track and advocates a renewed engagement with modernity. Immigration, capitalism,
democracy, and globalization, if done right this time, can be tools that shape a
positive future for Africa.
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Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750
The role of proprietorships or 'private' colonies in imperial development has not received the attention it deserves, notwithstanding recent scholarly emphasis on 'state-building'. The continued use of these 'private' devices, even as early modern European nation-states grew more potent, is not only interesting, but is indeed normative though invariably missing from modern studies of empire. This collection provides in-depth analyses of the workings of the proprietorships themselves (rather than proprietary colonies) and in studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, broadens this discussion beyond British North America.Contributors include: Mickaël Augeron, Kenneth Banks, Sarah Barber, Philip Boucher, Olivier Caporossi, Leslie Choquette, David Dewar, Jaap Jacobs, Maxine N. Lurie, Debra A. Meyers, L.H. Roper, James O'Neil Spady, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal, and Laurent Vidal.
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British Engineers and Africa, 1875-1914
Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain's engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.
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Fiscal capacity and the colonial state in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960
\"This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which functioned as little more than trading posts. The officials running these settlements had neither the resources nor the need to develop new fiscal instruments. With the expansion of imperialism, the costs of maintaining colonies rose. Home governments, reluctant to place the financial burden of imperial expansion on metropolitan taxpayers, pressed colonial governments to become fiscally self-supporting. A team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems and how these regimes involved local people and elites. They shed new light on the political economy of colonial state formation and the institutional legacies they left behind at independence\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history
Rethinking Resistance analyzes revolts from the nineteenth century and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and recent conflicts in African history by reinterpreting resistance studies in the light of current scholarly thought and linking them to new conceptual perspectives on the changing nature of violence.
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Automotive Empire
In Automotive Empire
, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to
transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner
Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads,
automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport-they
organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic,
and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and
between colonies and the European metropole.
European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian,
and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge-the
transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate
commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures
of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial
administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire
emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but
revealed weakness as much as it extended power.
As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads
seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They
were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the
environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the
recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal
moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned
from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them,
automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with
the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism
itself.
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