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West Africa under colonial rule / Michael Crowder.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Evanston [Illinois] : Northwestern University Press, 1968Description: xv, 540 pages : maps (1 folded) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: West Africa under colonial rule.LOC classification:
  • DT476.2 .C87
Contents:
Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation of West Africa -- The British occupation of Nigeria -- The British occupation of the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia -- Administration in theory and practice -- The administration of French West Africa -- British administration in West Africa -- Indirect rule in practice -- Togo, the model colony -- West Africa and the 1914-18 war -- Colonial development and commercial expoitation -- Lebanese and monopolists -- Government and economy in the inter-war years -- Migration and the new towns -- The economic impact of colonial rule -- Islam and Christianity -- Western education -- The colonial European -- The origins of protest -- French West African politics, 1919-39 -- Politics in British West Africa, 1920-39 -- Prelude to de-colonisation : the Second World War.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation of West Africa -- The British occupation of Nigeria -- The British occupation of the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia -- Administration in theory and practice -- The administration of French West Africa -- British administration in West Africa -- Indirect rule in practice -- Togo, the model colony -- West Africa and the 1914-18 war -- Colonial development and commercial expoitation -- Lebanese and monopolists -- Government and economy in the inter-war years -- Migration and the new towns -- The economic impact of colonial rule -- Islam and Christianity -- Western education -- The colonial European -- The origins of protest -- French West African politics, 1919-39 -- Politics in British West Africa, 1920-39 -- Prelude to de-colonisation : the Second World War.

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