Subjects
Britain and Africa
Series Editor: David Sunderland
Advisory Editor: Godfrey N Uzoigwe
This ambitious and pioneering cross-disciplinary series seeks to explore Britain’s involvement in Africa through the collection of rare or not widely available primary resources. It will be of interest to all historians working in this area and to those involved in development studies.
The series of multi-volume sets contains material relating to every aspect of Britain’s relationship with the continent and to all the countries in which Britain had a presence, including those smaller colonies and protectorates that have received comparatively little attention. Care is taken to ensure that the documents chosen reflect change over time and illuminate the main spheres of current academic research and new and emerging subject areas. Although the perspective is primarily Western, sources included also provide African views of the development process and help to reveal the relationship between colonizers and the colonized and the impact white settlement had on African societies.
In addition to the source material, each collection includes a substantial introduction, thematic introductions, text notes, a full bibliography of contemporary and more recent secondary material on the subject and an index. All source material is reset.
- Republishes rare or difficult-to-access material
- Documents illuminate the development process and the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
- Covers the main spheres of current and emerging research
- Each set includes a substantial introduction, thematic introductions, explanatory notes and a full bibliography
- Each set has a consolidated index in the final volume
- All source material is reset
Readership
Academics, students and general readers interested in British Imperial and Colonial History; African History; Social, Economic, Business and Urban History; Transport and Gender History; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Exploration; Post-Colonial Studies; Development Studies; and the Economics of Globalization.
Editorial board
Dr David Sunderland is Reader in Business History at the University of Greenwich, London. He is the author of Managing the British Empire (Boydell & Brewer, 2004); Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development (Boydell & Brewer, 2007); Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution, 1780–1880 (Routledge, 2007); and An Economic History of London, 1800-1914 (Co-authored with Dr Michael Ball) (Routledge 2006).
Professor Godfrey N Uzoigwe is Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Britain and the Conquest of Africa: The Age of Salisbury (University of Michigan Press, 1974), A Short History of South Africa (Esther Thompson Publishing Company, 1998), Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil Wa, (edited with Levi Nwachuku) (University Press of America, 2004), Visions of Nationhood: Prelude to the Nigerian Civil War (Africa World Press, 2009). He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science, and in 2005 was awarded the Golden Jubilee Award by the Historical Society of Nigeria in recognition of meritorious and distinguished service.
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