The Making of Contemporary Africa The Development of African Society since 1800

This established text provides a refreshing account of the complex events in sub-Saharan Africa since 1800. Fully revised and updated throughout, this third edition incorporates the latest scholarship, and brings the book up to the present day.

Aligning itself with the new critical tendencies emerging in Africa, The Making of Contemporary Africa examines indigenous social development prior to the Industrial Revolution and the impact of colonialism from the perspective of class formation and capital penetration. Decolonisation and post-colonial development are analysed on the basis of economic changes rather than the usual political lens. Additional chapters new to this edition cover Africa in the twenty-first century and look at social and cultural history since independence.

Bill Freund is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Africanist History and the History of Africa
2. Material and Cultural Development in Africa before the Nineteenth Century
3. The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital
4. The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800-1870
5. The Conquest of Africa
6. The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900-1940
7. Culture, Class and Social Change in Colonial Africa, 1900-1940
8. Industrialisation and South African Society, 1900-1940
9. The Decolonisation of Africa, 1940-1960
10. Tropical Africa 1960-80: Class, State and the Problem of Development
11. Southern Africa: the Liberation Struggles
12. Structural Adjustment Kicks In
13. Democracies, Dictatorships and Disasters: Africa into the Twenty-first Century
14. A New Africa: Cultural and Social History since Independence
Annotated Bibliography

Index

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