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The transfer of power in Africa : decolonization, 1940-1960
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The transfer of power in Africa : decolonization, 1940-1960

Author: Prosser Gifford; William Roger Louis
Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1988, ©1986.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Prosser Gifford; William Roger Louis
ISBN: 0300043481 : 9780300043488
OCLC Number: 18685982
Notes: Originally published: 1986.
Description: [704] p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Asian mirror to tropical Africa's independence / D. A. Low -- The United States and the liquidation of the British Empire in tropical Africa, 1941-1951 / Wm. Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson -- Pan-African responses in the United States to British colonial rule in Africa in the 1940s / Hollis R. Lynch -- Patterns in the transfer of power : a comparative study of French and British decolonization / Tony Smith -- Toward the transfer of power in British West Africa / John D. Hargreaves -- French West Africa and decolonization / Yves Person -- French colonial policy in Equatorial Africa in the 1940s and 1950s / Elikia M'Bokolo -- The decolonization of French Black Africa / Henri Brunschwig -- The British point of no return? / Dennis Austin -- Colonial governments and the transfer of power in East Africa / Cranford Pratt -- The impact of ethnic demands on British decolonization in Africa : the example of Uganda / Grace S. Ibingira -- Precipitous decolonization : the case of the Belgian Congo / Jean Stengers -- Portugal and Africa : the last empire / Kenneth Maxwell -- Misconceived dominion : the creation and disintegration of federation in British Central Africa / Prosser Gifford -- The parting of the ways in South Africa / Leonard Thompson -- From colonization to independence in French tropical Africa : the economic background / Jean Suret-Canale -- Decolonization, development, and dependence : a survey of changing attitudes / David Fieldhouse -- Decolonization in French, Belgian, and Portuguese Africa : a bibliographical essay / David E. Gardinier -- A historiographical perspective on the transfer of power in British colonial Africa : a bibliographical essay / A. H. M. Kirk-Greene.
Responsibility: edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis.

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