Author: UZOIGWE, G.N.
Title: Britain and the Conquest of Africa. The Age of Salisbury.
Description: University of Michigan Press, 1974. Hardcover. Ex-library, no dj. Bottom of spine a little bumped. Contents good. Traces how from 1878 less than 10% of African territories were under European rule, until 1900 when the whole of Africa had been conquered by the imperialist powers of Europe. Examines the Victorians and the politics of empire and then focuses on West Africa; East and Central Africa; and Egypt and the Sudan. 403pp.

Keywords: history 19th nineteenth social policy historical africa niger political colonial colonialism britain british