Making of Contemporary Africa

BILL FREUND is Professor of Economic History at the University of Natal in Durban.

PART ONE: AFRICANIST HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF AFRICA PART TWO: MATERIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Hunters, Gatherers and Cultivators The Formation of States Some Major African States Modes of Production, the State and Class Society PART THREE: THE EUROPEAN INTRUSION IN THE ERA OF MERCHANT CAPITAL The Portugese Epoch The Atlantic Slave Trade The Foundations of South Africa The Age of Merchant Capital PART FOUR: THE ERA OF LEGITIMATE COMMERCE, 1800-1870 Abolition and Legitimate Commerce Class and Trade in Coastal West Africa Nineteenth-Century East Africa The Era of Informal Empire South Africa in the Age of the Great Trek PART FIVE: THE CONQUEST OF AFRICA Imperialism: Theory and Practice The Build-up to Conquest The Partition of Africa Resistance, Collaboration and Contradiction in African Society PART SIX: THE MATERIAL BASIS OF COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1900-1940 The Era of Force and the Chartered Companies Mines White Settlers Lords and Chiefs Peasant Production The Colonial State PART SEVEN: CULTURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN COLONIAL AFRICA, 1900-1940 Class Relations in Colonial Africa Culture and Social Organisation A Changing Faith The Modalities of Resistance Thuku and Chilembwe PART EIGHT: INDUSTRIALISATION AND SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY, 1900-1940 Reconstruction and Union An Era of Confrontation Pact and Fusion The Crisis of the 1940s PART NINE: THE DECOLONISATION OF AFRICA, 1940-1960 The Second Colonial Occupation Social Confrontation and Class Struggles The Political Setting Independence for British West Africa The End of British Rule in East and Central Africa Decolonisation in French Africa The Congo Crisis PART TEN: TROPICAL AFRICA 1960-80: CLASS, STATE AND THE PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT Neo-colonial Myths and Realities The Ruling Class of Contemporary Africa Class, Party and State Intensifying Contradiction: African Crisis PART ELEVEN: SOUTHERN AFRICA IN CRISIS The Nationalist Party Victory and its Implications The Armed Struggle in Southern Africa The Challenges of the 1970s and After PART TWELVE: THE AGE OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT Select Bibliography Index