African Perspectives on Colonialism

A. Adu Boahen

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781421441214
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of Europe. Eurocentric points of view have dominated the study of this era, but in this book, one of Africa's leading historians reinterprets the colonial experiences from the perspective of the colonized.

The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History are occasional volumes sponsored by the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins University Press comprising original essays by leading scholars in the United States and other countries. Each volume considers, from a comparative perspective, an important topic of current historical interest. The present volume is the fifteenth. Its preparation has been assisted by the James S. Schouler Lecture Fund.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter One The Eve of the Colonial Conquest and Occupation
• Chapter Two The Imposition of the Colonial System: Initiatives and Responses
• Chapter Three The Operation of the Colonial System
• Chapter Four The Colonial Impact
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index