Historical Problems of Imperial Africa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558766170 ISBN 13: 9781558766174

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

This book is designed to inform, engage, and stimulate discussions among its readers. Collins and his collaborators have included authoritative statements and analysis by renowned scholars. A distinctive characteristic of the whole anthology is the range of interpretations of classic and recent research. The book offers a full spectrum of emotionally charged theories. Each section presents a set of conflicting arguments to show the state of debates on these highly controversial issues. Extensive commentary by the editors leads the reader through this treasury of theories and dramatically highlights the development of the field. Now extensively revised and updated by James M. Burns, this volume, part of a fascinating series, includes new documents and contributors and divided into six parts covering the following topics: - The partition of Africa - Colonial rule in Africa - Colonial rule and ethnic identity - Colonialism and the African environment - African nationalism - "Exploitation or development?"

About this title

About the Author:

Robert O. Collins, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1919-1956 and The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988, as well as 24 other books. James McDonald Burns, Kathleen S. Hasselblad, and Erik Kristofer Ching, doctoral candidates at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are assisting as co-editors.

Review:

"While the material is familiar enough to scholars of African history, this book provides teachers with a handy format for making the material available for their students." - Social Studies" --Social Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1558766170
• ISBN 13: 9781558766174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Burns James M, Collins Robert O