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From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grenouilleau, Olivier
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge studies in modern European history ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis
  • Background to annexation : Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891 / David Richardson
  • Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa c.1780-1938 : a quantitative analysis / Bouda Etemad
  • An imperialism with no economic basis : the case of Italy, 1869-1939 / Romain H. Rainero
  • Continental drift : the independence of Brazil (1822), Portugal and Africa / Luis Felipe de Alencastro
  • The Portuguese Empire, 1825-90 : ideology and economics / Valentim Alexandre
  • The scramble for Africa : icon and idiom of modernity / Albert Wirz and Andreas Eckert
  • Cultural systems of representation, economic interests and French penetration into Black Africa, 1780s-1880s / Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
  • The placed and role of the players in colonial expansion : France and east Africa in the nineteenth century / Valérie Valey
  • Commercial presence, colonial penetration : Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth century / Xavier Daumalin.