Introduction -- The regional setting -- The Atlantic connection: Little Popo & the rise of Afro-European trade, c. 1600-1702 -- The era of the warrior kings: 1702 to 1772 -- The era of the traders: 1772 to c.1807 -- Disintigration & reconstitution: political developments, 1820s to 1870s -- From...

Klappentext der Neuauflage 2015: Imperialism in the eyes of the world is still Europe's original sin, even though the empires themselves have long since disappeared. Among the most egregious of imperial acts was Victorian Britain's seemingly random partition of Africa. In this classic work of...