A History of Modern Africa 1800 to the Present

by Reid, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780470658987
• ISBN10: 0470658983
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

Author Biography

Richard Reid is Reader in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), and Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), as well as numerous articles on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of east and northeast Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xiv
List of Plates	p. xv
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Introduction: Understanding the Contours of Africa's Past	p. 1
A Brief History of the Study of Africa	p. 5
Land	p. 8
People	p. 12
Polity, Society, and Economy: Ingenuity and Violence in the Nineteenth Century	p. 17
Western Transitions: Slave Trade and "Legitimate" Commerce in Atlantic Africa	p. 23
States and Societies during the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 24
"Illegal" Traffic: The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade	p. 28
Mineral and Vegetable: "Legitimate" Commerce	p. 32
Change and Continuity in Forest and Savannah	p. 35
Eastern Intrusions: Slaves and Ivory in Eastern Africa	p. 42
Commercial Horizons: Slaves and Ivory	p. 43
Maritime Empire: Zanzibar	p. 48
Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (1): The Lacustrine Zone	p. 52
Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (2): Northeastern Africa	p. 59
Southern Frontiers: Colony and Revolution in Southern Africa	p. 65
African State and Society to around 1800	p. 65
War, Revolution, and the Zulu Impact	p. 67
Cape Colonialism: White Settlement and the "Native Question"	p. 71
Voortrekkers: White Communities in the Interior	p. 74
Balances of Power to around 18 70	p. 75
Africa and Islam: Revival and Reform in the Nineteenth Century	p. 77
Revival and Reaction: North African Islam	p. 81
Old and New Identities: Brotherhoods of the Desert	p. 81
Trade and Conflict in the Mediterranean World: Ottoman and European Frontiers	p. 82
Changing Society (1): The Maghreb	p. 86
Changing Society (2): Egypt	p. 89
Jihad: Revolutions in Western Africa	p. 94
Islam in Western Africa to the Eighteenth Century	p. 94
The Wandering Fulani	p. 96
Prophets and Warriors	p. 97
The Eastern Crescent: The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa	p. 103
Swahili Islam: Coastal Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century	p. 103
Islam in the Central East African Interior	p. 105
Cross and Crescent in Northeast Africa	p. 106
Islam on the Nile	p. 108
Africa and Europe: Commerce, Conflict and Co-option, to c.1920	p. 113
The Compass and the Cross	p. 119
Interested Gentlemen and Learned Bodies: Explorers and Exploration	p. 119
Creeping Hegemony and the Invention of Africa	p. 123
European Missionary Activity in Africa to around 1800	p. 125
Evangelical Humanitarians: Missionary Revival	p. 126
The Christian Impact on Culture, State, and Society	p. 129
Mission and Empire	p. 134
"Whatever Happens…": Towards the Scramble	p. 139
Africa and Theories of Imperialism	p. 140
Race and Culture	p. 142
Disorder and Civilizing Violence: Political and Economic Justifications	p. 145
Africans Adapting: Conquest and Partition	p. 150
Explaining the "Conquest"	p. 150
Spears and Water: Violent Resistance	p. 155
Histories Old and New: Colonialism and Historical "Knowledge"	p. 165
Realities Old and New: Colonialism and Political "Knowledge"	p. 168
Bush Wars and Distant Shadows: Africa in Global War	p. 175
Colonialisms	p. 183
"Pax Colonia"? Empires of Soil and Service	p. 189
Monopolies on Violence	p. 190
Slaves and Labor	p. 193
Cash Crops	p. 194
White Settlement	p. 199
Industry	p. 201
Social Change and Emergent Crisis	p. 204
Hearts and Minds	p. 207
Environment and Medicine	p. 210
Hard Times: Protest, Identity, and Depression	p. 218
Making Tribes	p. 218
Emergent Protest in the Islamic World	p. 221
Salvation and Resistance: The African Church	p. 223
Class and Tribe: The Industrial Complex	p. 224
Cash Crops, Rural Crises, and Peasant Protest	p. 227
Other Voices	p. 230
Battles Home and Away: Africa in Global War (Again)	p. 236
The War in the Continent	p. 236
Shifts in Politics and Society	p. 241
The Dissolution of Empire	p. 245
The Beached Whale: Colonial Strategies in the Postwar World	p. 251
Postwar Africa and the International Climate	p. 252
Economic Policies and Visions, c. 1945-50	p. 253
Political Plans, c. 1945-50	p. 256
Conceiving and Producing Nations	p. 259
The Widening Horizons of Belonging	p. 260
Tensions and Transitions: From Political Consciousness to Political Parties	p. 261
Irresistible Force and Immovable Object: Nationalists and Settlers	p. 268
A Time of Contrasts	p. 273
Compromising Conflict: Routes to Independence	p. 276
Debate and Debacle: "Constitutional" Transfers of Power	p. 276
Violence: Growth, Form, and Impact	p. 286
From Suez to Sharpeville, and Beyond: The End of High Imperialism	p. 291
Legacies, New Beginnings, and Unfinished Business	p. 297
Unsafe Foundations: Challenges of Independence	p. 303
Building the Nation (1): Economy and Society	p. 303
Building the Nation (2): Polity	p. 310
Political Stability and Islam	p. 316
Crowded House: Africa and the Cold War	p. 320
Violence and the Militarization of Political Culture	p. 328
The Military in African Politics	p. 328
The Politics and Cultures of Insurgency	p. 332
Expanding Military Horizons	p. 337
Rectification, Redemption, and Reality: Issues and Trends in Contemporary Africa	p. 339
Africa and the Post-Cold War World	p. 339
Democracy and Authoritarianism: Trends in Governance	p. 343
New Wars, Old Problems	p. 349
Body and Mind	p. 352
Economic Predicaments: Assessing "Growth" and "Development"	p. 355
Further Reading	p. 363
Index	p. 365
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