From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s / / edited by Olivier Petre-Grenouilleau

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451431903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-76589-8; 1-280-10395-7; 0-203-32309-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in modern European history ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): Petre-GrenouilleauOlivier
• Disciplina: 967/.023
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonization; Africa, Sub-Saharan History To 1884
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: a missing link? The significance of the 1780s-1880s; Economic relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: a global weighing-up; African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade; Background to annexation: Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891; Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa c.1780-1938: a quantitative analysis; Southern Europe and Germany: about the 'imperialism of the poor' and the desire for power; An imperialism with no economic basis: the case of Italy, 1869-1939Continental drift: the independence of Brazil (1822), Portugal and Africa; The Portuguese Empire, 1825-90: ideology and economics; The Scramble for Africa: icon and idiom of modernity; France: from a civilising mission to the highest form of mercantilism?; Cultural systems of representation, economic interests and French penetration into Black Africa, 1780s-1880s; The place and role of the players in colonial expansion: France and east Africa in the nineteenth century; Commercial presence, colonial penetration: Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth centuryAfterword: towards a cosmopolitan ; history of imperialism; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.