Author: Freund, Bill
Title: The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800
Description: Bloomington [IN], Indiana University Press, (1984). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xv,357,(8)pp. 8pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. A smudge to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Africanist History & the History of Africa; Material & Cultural Developments in Africa before the 19th Century; The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital; The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800-1870; The Conquest of Africa; The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900-1940; Culture, Class & Social Change in Colonial Africa, 1900-1940; Industrialisation & South African Society, 1900-1940; The Decolonization of Africa, 1940-1960; Tropical Africa since Independence; Class, State & the Problem of Development; Southern Africa in Crisis.

Keywords: African Economic History, Africa, Political Economy, Politics, Economics, Historiography, Colonial, Decolonisation,