Burden of Empire An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara

by Duignan, Peter; Gann, Lewis H.

• ISBN13: 9780817916923
• ISBN10: 081791692X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1967-01-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

Since its publication in 1967, Burden of Empirehas been widely praised and criticized for its controversial approach to the problem of colonialism in Africa. The authors have challenged the new "orthodoxy" about Africa-the belief that little but evil and exploitation has resulted from the era of European colonialism. Burden of Empireis, therefore, in the words of George Shepperson, "a provocative thesis [which] could set off a controversy among historians similar to that engendered by Robinson's and Gallagher's Africa and the Victorians."

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1971 Printing	vii
Preface to the Original Printing	xiii
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND REALITIES OF IMPERIALISM
Fallible Yardsticks	3	(7)
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colonialism	10	(11)
Imperialism---The Highest Stage of Nationalism?	21	(10)
The Imperial High-Water Mark and the Turn of the Tide	31	(16)
Pre-Leninist Critiques of Colonialism on the Continent	47	(8)
Lenin's View of Imperialism	55	(17)
The Colonial Debate Between the Two World Wars	72	(16)
Pan-Africanism, Imperialism, and Negritude	88	(15)
Communism, Colonialism, and Neocolonialism	103	(16)
PART TWO: COLONIAL RULE
Problems of African Historiography	119	(14)
Africa Before the Partition	133	(30)
Europe in Africa by the Early 1870s	163	(24)
The Scramble for Africa	187	(22)
Dual Mandate	209	(18)
Development or Exploitation?	227	(26)
Businessmen and Bureaucrats: The Growth of State Control	253	(20)
Teachers and Doctors in Colonial Africa	273	(20)
African Townsmen	293	(14)
PART THREE: DECOLONIZATION
The Rulers Waver	307	(13)
The Subjects Organize	320	(13)
Winning of the Political Kingdom	333	(27)
Imperial Balance Sheet: A Summing Up	360	(23)
The New Rulers in Charge: An Epilogue	383	(16)
Bibliography	399	(20)
Index	419