Author: Sir Andrew CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
British Policy in Changing Africa
Author: Sir Andrew CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
British Policy in Changing Africa
Author: Andrew CohenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000995321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Originally published in 1959 by a former Governor of Uganda and Head of the Africa Division of the former Colonial Office, this book is a concise exposition of British aims and methods in colonial Africa and the extent of British influence, and the way the region was administered before the war with insufficient staff and money. The problems around the transfer of power in countries such as Ghana and Kenya are also discussed, along with the problems of government from Whitehall and local government.
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Author: Andrew W.M. SmithPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
British Policy in Changing Africa
Author: British Policy in Changing Africa
Author: Andrew Cohen (funzionario.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
British Policy in Changing Africa
Author: Andrew Benjamin CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
British Policy Towards West Africa
Author: Colin Walter NewburyPublisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This second volume of official documents continues the survey of British relations with West African societies during the period of international partition, expansion into the interior, and the consolidation of the four colonial states formed under British rule before 1914.
The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa
Author: Rosalind CoffeyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030894568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book provides fresh insights into how the British press affected both British perceptions of decolonisation in Africa and British policy towards it during the ‘wind of change’ period. It also reveals, for the first time, the extent to which British newspaper coverage was of relevance to African and white settler readerships. British newspapers informed the political strategies and civic cultures of African activists, nationalists, liberal whites in Africa, the staunchest of white settler communities, and the first governments of independent African states and their opponents. The British press, British public opinion and British journalists became etched into the lived experiences of the end of empire affecting Anglo-African and Anglo-settler relations to this day. Arguing that the press cast a transnational web of influence over the decolonisation process in Africa, the author explores the relationships between the British, African and settler public and political spheres, and highlights the mediating power of the British press during the late 1950s. The book draws from a range of British newspapers, official government documents, newspaper archives, interviews, memoirs, autobiographies and articles printed in African and white settler papers. It will be of interest to historians of decolonisation, Africa, the media and the British Empire.
The Enigma of Colonialism
Author: Anne PhillipsPublisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The discussion of pre-colonial slavery shows how slavery became integrated into the new colonial economy.
Turning Point in Africa
Author: R.D. PearcePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000857727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War. Charting a course through a wide variety of official sources and private papers, the work assesses the importance for colonial policy of the Colonial Office, the Colonial Service, the Labour Party, African nationalists, and of ideological and moral preconceptions. The revolution in African policy is investigated with a wide and yet detailed approach. Special attention is devoted to the effects of the Second World War on Britain and its empire and to the importance of American anti-imperialist pressure on the British Government. The importance of three men – the adviser Lord Hailey, politician Arthur Creech Jones and civil servant Andrew Cohen – receives attention and an assessment is made of their contribution to a policy which, from 1948 onwards, led to a rapid decolonization in large parts of Africa. The significance of this policy is analysed in detail. The British aimed at ‘nation-building’: indirect rule was to be replaced by the forms of English-style local government while rapid constitutional progress at the centre was to be conceded, in accordance with a preconceived model, once powerful nationalist movements had arisen. However, as the book shows, progress at the centre was introduced prematurely and outstripped reform in local government so that progress was not the balanced development the British had wished to see. Decolonization had been given an irreversible momentum by British planning.