Table of Contents

Introduction Andrew Roberts; 1. The imperial mind Andrew Roberts; 2. Aspects of economic history C. C. Wrigley; 3. Christianity Richard Gray; 4. Islam C. C. Stewart; 5. African cross-currents Andrew Roberts; 6. The Maghrib Michael Brett; 7. French black Africa Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Madagascar J. Fremigacci; 8. British West Africa and Liberia D. C. Dorward; 9. Belgian Africa B. Jewsiewicki; 10. Portuguese and Spanish Africa, Portuguese Africa Andrew Roberts, Spanish Equatorial Guinea W. G. Clarence-Smith; 11. Southern Africa A. P. Walshe, and Andrew Roberts; 12. British Central Africa John McCracken; 13. East Africa Andrew Roberts; 14. Ethiopia and the Horn Richard Caulk; 15. Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Egypt M. W. Daly, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan G. N. Sanderson; Bibliographical essays; Bibliography; Index.

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Reviews

"Thus C.C. Wrigley provides a thoughtful and challenging analysis of the economic aspects in chapter 2, and the two major religions. Christianity and Islam are similarly presented in chapters 3 and 4 by Richard Gray and C.C. Stewart respectively. Most praise, however, goes to Andrew Roberts, who has not only provided skilful editorship, but two general chapters which cannot have been easy to write, since few historians are given to making worthwhile generalisations ranging over a whole continent. But he has been bold enough to take on the task, and has produced in chapter 1, on the Imperial mind, a caustic but judicious assessment of the impact of imperialism in Africa and in chapter 5, on African cross-currents, a splendid overview of African reactions." Freda Harcourt, HISTORY, June 1989.