Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Development
ISBN: 978-1-032-20890-9
Verlag: Routledge
The book interrogates the economic and legal structures that supported European intervention in Africa. It explores the trade and private property rights which were to shape the economic future of the continent, most notably the trade in human beings as legitimate private property by European powers. The book then looks at the techniques used to submerge African sovereignty under European sovereignty during the scramble for territorial control in the 19th century, concluding with the validation of occupation in international law following the 1884-85 Berlin Conference. The book argues that the doctrines of trade and property rights sanctioned by international law led to a trend of African dispossession that set the continent on a path to underdevelopment, with long-reaching consequences.
This book will be of interest to researchers and students across law, history, economics, international relations, and African studies.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
Weitere Infos & Material
- The Third World and Nature of World Order
- From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Incorporation into the World Order
- People as Property: Atlantic Slave Trade, International Law and the Making of the New World
- Industrial Capitalism, Concepts of Improvement, and the Civilizing Mission Metaphor in Africa
- The Scramble for Africa: Non-State Actors and Acquisitions by Cession Treaties
- Public Law Arrangements: The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884-85 and the Partition of Africa
- General Concluding Remarks