Author: IIiffe, John
Title: A Modern History of Tanganyika
Description: London / New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. brown boards. book xvi, 616 pgs. olive & bw illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Pages appear clean. A nice copy. "This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particular attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitalism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesize their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany."--Pubisher. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. edge-wear to covers; bumping to corners. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID sticker to lower spine; plastic scufffed) .

Keywords: Tanganyika, African History ; Tanganyika, African History ; ;