Myles Osborne, Susan Kingsley Kent

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 is the first textbook that specifically addresses the history of this empire on this continent. Written by two experts in the field, one on British imperial history and one on African history, the book offers a uniquely balanced look at both the African and British perspectives.

Including a range of maps and illustrations, this is the ideal introduction for any student of imperial history in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317514800
• Artikelnr.: 42539787

Autorenporträt

Myles Osborne is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008, and is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2014). He also recently edited The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya (Markus Wiener, 2015), and has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of African History.

Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Interwar Britain; The Women's War: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria, 1929, with Misty Bastian and Marc Matera; Gender and History; and Queen Victoria: Gender, Empire, and the Gender of Empire.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures. List of maps. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Slave Trade
Abolition
and Beyond
1600-1840s. 2. Missionaries
Merchants
and Explorers
1840s-1880s. 3. The Scramble for Africa
1870s-1900. 4.Violence
Negotiation
and the Establishment of British Administration
1890s-1914. 5. Africans in the White Man's Wars
1914-1945. 6. The Road to Independence
1945-1960. 7. Independence and Beyond
1960s - 1970s. 8. The Legacy of Colonialism. Index