The Cambridge History of Africa: VOLUME 7: FROM 1905 TO 1940

By 1905 most of Africa had been subjected to European rule; in the 1940s, the colonial regimes faced widespread and mounting opposition. Yet the period surveyed in this volume was no mere interlude of enforced quiescence. The cash nexus expanded hugely, as Africans came to depend for access to household necessities upon the export overseas of primary products. For the first time, tropical Africa began to constitute a significant economic counterweight to North and South Africa. The impact of white rule on African health and welfare was extremely uneven, and African lives were stunted by the labour requirements of capitalist enterprise. Many Africans suffered greatly in the First World War and in the world depression of the 1930s. By then, however, population was generally on the increase, after half a century of widespread decline. Mental horizons were much enlarged especially in the fast-growing towns. By 1940 a majority of Africans were either Muslim or Christian. South of the Sahara, mission education helped Africans to challenge white monopolies of power. Literate Africans developed new solidarities: tribal, territorial, regional and Pan-African. Meanwhile, the colonial powers were themselves improving their understanding of Africa and trying to frame policies accordingly. Co-operation with indigenous rulers often seemed the best way to retain control at minimum cost, but the search for revenue entailed disruptive economic change. By the Second World War, most colonial regimes confronted not only the criticisms of literate Africans but organised protest among wage-earners and farmers, even though anti-colonial nationalism was sitll embryonic. V. 1. From The Earliest Times To C. 500 B.c. / Edited By J. Desmond Clark. 1982 -- V. 2. From C. 500 B.c. To A.d. 1050 / Edited By J.d. Fage. 1978 -- V. 3. From C. 1050 To C. 1600 / Edited By Roland Oliver. 1977 -- V. 4. From C. 1600 To C. 1790 / Edited By Richard Gray. 1975 -- V. 5. From C. 1790 To C. 1870 / Edited By John E. Flint. 1976 -- V. 6. From 1870 To 1905 / Edited By Roland Oliver And G.n. Sanderson. 1985 -- V. 7. From 1905 To 1940 / Edited By A.d. Roberts. 1986 -- V. 8. From C. 1940 To C. 1975 / Edited By Michael Crowder. 1984. [general Editors, J.d. Fage And Roland Oliver]. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes. pdf_handler(1)......Page 1 pdf_handler(2)......Page 21 pdf_handler(3)......Page 44 pdf_handler(4)......Page 97 pdf_handler(5)......Page 160 pdf_handler(6)......Page 211 pdf_handler(7)......Page 243 pdf_handler(8)......Page 287 pdf_handler(9)......Page 349 pdf_handler(10)......Page 418 pdf_handler(11)......Page 479 pdf_handler(12)......Page 512 pdf_handler(13)......Page 562 pdf_handler(14)......Page 620 pdf_handler(15)......Page 667 pdf_handler(16)......Page 720 pdf_handler(17)......Page 760 pdf_handler(18)......Page 806 pdf_handler(19)......Page 898 Specialists in various aspects of African history and civilization contribute to an integrated portrait of internal and foreign influences on the course of Africa's development For the period under review in this volume, explanations of much that happened in Africa must be sought in Europe.