03648nam 2200637 a 450 991096319200332120251116175609.01-135-76588-X1-135-76589-81-280-10395-70-203-32309-210.4324/9780203323090 (CKB)1000000000250128(EBL)199718(OCoLC)252946633(SSID)ssj0000296983(PQKBManifestationID)11246251(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296983(PQKBWorkID)10327877(PQKB)10880635(MiAaPQ)EBC199718(Au-PeEL)EBL199718(CaPaEBR)ebr10094207(CaONFJC)MIL10395(OCoLC)56947384(EXLCZ)99100000000025012820040510d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom slave trade to empire Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s /edited by Olivier Petre-GrenouilleauLondon, U. K. ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (264 p.)Routledge studies in modern European history ;8Description based upon print version of record.1-138-87014-5 0-7146-5691-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 powerAn 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 centuryCommercial presence, colonial penetration: Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth centuryAfterword: towards a cosmopolitan history of imperialism; IndexMuch 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.Routledge studies in modern European history ;8.Africa, Sub-SaharanColonizationAfrica, Sub-SaharanHistoryTo 1884967/.023Grenouilleau Olivier1283690MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963192003321From slave trade to empire4469878UNINA