Britain and West Africa

By Joyce Cary

Subjects: Colonies, Emirate, Indirect Rule, colonial, Nationalist, merchant, development, Imperialism, politics, Assiento, abolition, Indigenous peoples, Slave trade, History, trade, Partition, Empire

Description: Joyce Cary, 'Late of the Nigerian Political Service', provides an overview very much of its time, of the history of the relationship between Britain and West Africa. The book sections are:- 1. The Merchant Adventurers 2. The Old Imperialism in Africa 3. The new Nationalist Imperialism 1870... 4. First Colonial Development Policy: Trusteeship 1900-1929 5. The New Colonial Development Policy: State Partnership and the Colonial Development Acts 1929 & 1945