A History of Modern Africa, Third, 1800 to the Present by Richard J. Reid -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents List of Maps List of Plates Acknowledgments Acknowledgments for the Second Edition Acknowledgments for the First Edition 1 Introduction

A Brief History of the Study of Africa Land People

Part I: Polity, Society, and Economy

2 Western Transitions

3 Eastern Intrusions

Commercial Horizons: Slaves and Ivory Maritime Empire: Zanzibar Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (1): The Lacustrine Zone Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (2): Northeastern Africa

4 Southern Frontiers

African State and Society to around 1800 War, Revolution, and the Zulu Impact Cape Colonialism: White Settlement and the “Native Question” Balances of Power to around 1870

Part II: Africa and Islam

5 Revival and Reaction

Old and New Identities: Brotherhoods of the Desert Trade and Conflict in the Mediterranean World: Ottoman and European Frontiers Changing Society (1): The Maghreb Changing Society (2): Egypt

6 Jihad

Islam in Western Africa to the Eighteenth Century The Wandering Fulani Prophets and Warriors

7 The Eastern Crescent

Swahili Islam: Coastal Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century Islam in the Central East African Interior Cross and Crescent in Northeast Africa Islam on the Nile

Part III: Africa and Europe

8 The Compass and the Cross

Interested Gentlemen and Learned Bodies: Explorers and Exploration Creeping Hegemony and the Invention of Africa European Missionary Activity in Africa to around 1800 Evangelical Humanitarians: Missionary Revival The Christian Impact on Culture, State, and Society Mission and Empire

9 “Whatever Happens …”

Africa and Theories of Imperialism Race and Culture Disorder and Civilizing Violence: Political and Economic Justifications

10 Africans Adapting

Part IV: Colonialisms

11 “Pax Colonia”?

Monopolies on Violence Slaves and Labor Cash Crops White Settlement Industry Social Change and Emergent Crisis Hearts and Minds Environment and Medicine

12 Hard Times

Making Tribes Emergent Protest in the Islamic World Salvation and Resistance: The African Church Class and Tribe: The Industrial Complex Cash Crops, Rural Crises, and Peasant Protest Other Voices

13 Battles Home and Away

The War in the Continent Shifts in Politics and Society

Part V: The Dissolution of Empire

14 The Beached Whale

Postwar Africa and the International Climate Economic Policies and Visions, c. 1945–50 Political Plans, c. 1945–50

15 Conceiving and Producing Nations

16 Compromising Conflict

Part VI: Legacies, New Beginnings, and Unfinished Business

17 Unsafe Foundations

Building the Nation (1): Economy and Society Building the Nation (2): Polity Political Stability and Islam Crowded House: Africa and the Cold War

18 Violence and the Militarization of Political Culture

The Military in African Politics The Politics and Cultures of Insurgency New Wars, Old Problems, and Expanding Military Horizons

19 Rectification, Redemption, and Reality

Africa and the Contemporary World Democracy and Authoritarianism: Trends in Governance Body and Mind Contemporary Economics: Assessing “Development” and “Growth”

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