Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gifford, Prosser.
2. Louis, William Roger, 1936-
3. Rockefeller Foundation.

Description

1. xi, 654 pages : map; 25 cm

Subject

1. 1945-1960
2. Geschichte 1940-1960
3. Decolonization > Africa > History > Congresses
4. Decolonization
5. Politics and government
6. Entkolonialisierung
7. Aufsatzsammlung
8. Dekolonisatie
9. POLITICAL CONDITIONS
10. DECOLONIZATION
11. AFRICA
12. Africa > Politics and government > 1945-1960 > Congresses
13. Africa
14. Afrika
15. Africa > Politics and government > 1945-1960

Genre/Form

1. proceedings (reports)
2. Conference papers and proceedings
3. History
4. Conference papers and proceedings.
5. Actes de congrès.

Contents

1. 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.
2. (cont.) 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Based on a conference held at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, Sept.-Oct. 1977, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.
2. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 603-635.