A study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise - environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelation of the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local. 520pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

Joseph Booth penned his appeal in 1897 in protest against the racist stereotyping of Africans by the colonisers; and witnessing the unjust and inhumane exploitation of the native peoples, for the sole benefit of the Europeans. He drew his ideas from the social and political messages he inferred from the Gospel and his appeal was published only thirteen years after European leaders met in Berlin to divide up the African continent. The book, which was not welcomed by the colonial government in Malawi, was first published in 1897 in the USA and is now republished in Malawi. Laura Perry reproduced the text of Booth's second edition, compared it to the first edition and added explanatory footnotes. 100pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

A graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, detailing the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics. 240pp, UK. PEN & SWORD BOOKS.

A detailed study of the role of overseas trade which fuelled the Industrial Revolution in Europe between the years 1650 to 1850. The central thesis of this volume is the economic contribution of Africa and Africans to this industrial progress and its affect on development in Africa and the Diaspora. The author also looks at the slave trade and its value in the development of modern financial institutions. Index, bib, apps, 576pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521010799

A reprint of Walter Wills colonial reference book, containing the details of nearly 2,000 prominent men and women of Edwardian Africa. This astonishing work includes biographies of settlers, warriors, explorers, invaders, politicians and traditional leaders from every corner of the continent. Invaluable for genealogists, historians, military researchers and medal enthusiasts, it offers fascinating bio-graphical sketches of colonial African celebrities many of whom were known personally to the editor. 488pp, UK. JEPPESTOWN PRESS.

A rich collection of primary materials, providing a documentary history of nineteenth century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. The authors have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism from the military to missionary organizations, from geographic and ethnographic societies to trading companies. Documents include mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers' accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibliographies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these books reveal the complexities of nineteenth century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the global markets of the twenty first century. Volume One traces the beginnings of the British colonial enterprise in South Asia and the Middle East brings together key texts from the era of the privately owned British East India Company through the crises that led to the company's takeover by the Crown in 1858. It ends with the momentous opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Government proclamations, military reports, and newspaper articles are included here alongside pieces by Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Benjamin Disraeli, and many others. A number of documents chronicle arguments between mercantilists and free trade advocates over the competing interests of the nation and the East India Company. Index, bib, b/w images, map, xxiii, 832pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A rich collection of primary materials, providing a documentary history of nineteenth century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. The authors have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism from the military to missionary organizations, from geographic and ethnographic societies to trading companies. Documents include mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers' accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibliographies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these books reveal the complexities of nineteenth century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the global markets of the twenty first century. Volume Two focuses on the expansion of the British Empire, illuminates the intense nineteenth century contest among European nations over Africa's land, people, and resources, highlighting the 1885 Berlin Conference. This collection follows British conflicts with other nations over different regions as well as its eventual challenge to Leopold of Belgium's rule of the Congo. The reports, speeches, treatises, proclamations, letters, and cartoons assembled here include works by Henry M. Stanley, David Livingstone, Joseph Conrad, G. W. F. Hegel, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Index, b/w images, maps, 821 pages, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An exploration of the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendents, looking in particular at how they were shaped by Empire, and how they in turn influenced the Empire. The scope of the book covers four centuries and four continents of black experience. BNS, map, 340pp, UK. OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 019926029X

New edition. Written in 1957 and first published in English in 1965, this classic text explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. Includes the original introduction by Jean Paul Sartre and a new introduction Nadine Gordimer. 197pp, UK (Selected as one of Africa's 100 best books of the 20th century.). EARTHSCAN.

First published in 1967, this biography of Richard Burton paints a vivid picture of the Victorian explorer, linguist, travel writer and spy in a variety of locations, from North and West Africa to India. Index, bib, notes, x, 464pp, UK. ELAND.

New edition of the classic text describing the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism, and the contradictions inherent in theories of progress and civilisation. First published in French in 1955. Includes a new introduction by Robin Kelley and an interview with Aime Cesaire. 102pp, USA. MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS.

Explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nations Islamic-African legacy, Susan Martin-Márquez disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, she argues, Spaniards have sometimes denied and sometimes embraced this legacy, and that vacillation has served to destabilize presumably fixed borders between Europe and the Muslim world and between Europe and Africa. Martin-Márquez analyses a wealth of texts produced by Spaniards as well as by Africans and Afro-Spaniards from the early nineteenth century forward. She illuminates the complexities and disorientations of Spanish identity and shows how its evolution has important implications for current debates not only in Spanish culture but also in other countries involved in negotiating a modern identity. Index, bib, notes, 445pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Reveals how colonies were central to the defence of the British Empire and the command of the oceans that underpinned it. It blends sweeping overviews of the nature of imperial defence with grass-roots explanations of how individual colonies were mobilised for war, drawing on the author's specialist knowledge of the Indian Ocean and colonies such as Bechuanaland, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Swaziland. This permits the full and dramatic range of action involved in imperial warfare - from policy-makers and military planners in Whitehall to chiefs recruiting soldiers in African villages - to be viewed as part of an interconnected whole. 339pp, UK. SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS.

Livingstone's 'Missionary Tales' had already been a bestseller. He now wanted to outdo other explorers and find the sources of the Nile. But after 5 years of travelling he was widely assumed to be dead. At that point, Stanley turned up with his Stars and Stripes flag and a caravan of much-needed supplies. A story of conflict and paradox taking us into the extraordinary history of British engagement with Africa. 256pp, UK. PROFILE BOOKS.

The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. The two conquering expeditions of Equatoria were led by Britons, Samuel Baker and Charles Gordon (later Governor-General of the Sudan). With them were other Europeans, Americans, Sudanese and Egyptians. Baker, Gordon and some of the others left detailed accounts of their experience in the region. All of which contribute to our knowledge not only of the difficulties involved in the annexation of a region thousands of kilometres from Cairo, but also geographical data and a record of the complex human relations that developed between the men involved in the expeditions, and the creation of the new province. 250pp, UK. SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS.

Using a wide variety of rarely seen illustrations and photos, the author documents the history of the European exploration of Africa and the impact of Africa on popular imagination in the West. Includes accounts of the travels of Samuel and Josephine Baker, Richard Burton, Heinrich Barthes, Rene Caille, Mungo Park, Henry Morton Stanley and many others. Translated from the French by Florence Brutton. Bib, 213pp, UK. DUCKWORTH.

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed through East and Central Africa into unmapped territory, discovered the great lakes, Tanganyika and Victoria, navigated the upper Nile and the Congo, and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, malaria and deep spear wounds. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic conse-quences which the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day. Explorers of the Nile is a gripping adventure story with an arresting analysis of Britain's imperial past and the Scramble for Africa. 528pp, UK. FABER & FABER.

The first comparative history of colonial heroes in Britain and France - Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean- Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey - showing the shift from public veneration of the peaceful conqueror to unbridled passion for the vanquishing hero. 376pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

Hugh Clapperton's second expedition in 1825 27 into West Africa was recorded in his diaries, transcribed and reproduced in this volume. Index, bib., apps., b/w photos, maps, b/w illus, 544pp, THE NETHERLANDS. EJ BRILL.

Facsimile reproduction of the 1881 edition with new publisher's introduction. A detailed narrative of nearly a decade spent in the virgin veld of Matabeleland and Mashonaland during the 1870s and 1880s, and of exploratory expeditions beyond the Zambezi river. Index, appendices, 19 b/w illus. wildlife sketches, 473pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS

Back in print in two volumes, this is the textbook for studies of the intellectual history of British ideas about Africa. Maps, b/w illus, xi, 526pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS.

See volume one above., USA. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS.

Collection of essays which considers the power and meaning of images in Africa. Images which range from the professional to the domestic, from monuments to body art and cinema to cartoons have mediated relationships between the global and the local, the coloniser and the colonised and the state and the individual. Index, bib, notes, b/w illus, 380pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

A scholarly biography of the explorer, assessing his seven epic journeys in Africa and evaluating the myths, distortions and scandals that have clouded his reputation. Index, bib, notes, maps, xxv, 389pp, USA. BRASSEY'S.

Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice the occupants of these positions functioned as hidden lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these men (and a few women) could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the centre of colonial society. By uncovering the role of African civil servants in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class. 312pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS.

Now available in paperback. A retelling of the dramatic stories of Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone, two very different men with very different agendas in nineteenth century East Africa. Maps, index, bib, notes, b/w illus, 411pp, UK. BANTAM.

The contributors employ different approaches to investigate the interaction between law and social history casting new light on the colonial experiences of Africans and Europeans. Law is seen as a dynamic force which shapes and is shaped by economic and political realities. Index, notes, 264pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Now in paperback. reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice and bravery, one dogged all his life by failure as well as success. 448pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Africa stood at the centre of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856-59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map led to years of controversy over the source of the White Nile. From 1861 to 1864, Burton served as British consul in Fernando Po and traveled widely between Ghana and Angola. He wrote prodigiously and contributed some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of Africa's peoples. In many ways, however, Africa proved to be Burton's undoing. Injuries and sickness sapped his strength, he made enemies in high places, and, ironically, even the discovery of Lake Tanganyika worked to his disadvan-tage. Increasingly frustrated and bitter, he turned to alcohol as a frequent remedy. Burton became a strong advocate of aggressive imperial policies. In addition, his experiences there were crucial to the ideas he articulated about race and its role in explaining human differences. In this fascinating story of the relationship between a man and a continent, geographer James L. Newman provides a more accurate picture not only of Burton but of the Africa he encountered. 316pp, USA. POTOMAC BOOKS.

Assesses the importance of France's colonial role in the development of French society and culture after 1870. BNS, 264pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

An account of the quests to discover of the sources of the Nile that began around 500 B.C. and ended in the mid nineteenth century with the discovery of the Mountains of the Moon and the Great Lakes of East Africa. The author follows in the footsteps of the great explorers describing their trials and adventures in East and North Africa. Vividly illustrated with colour photographs taken by the author and b/w images. Index, bib, maps, 192pp, UK. CHAUCER PRESS.

Drawing on a trove of official and personal sources, this biography shows how what began as an ordinary career in the British consular service became a singular crusade, on three continents, against exploitation, cruelty and injustice. Roger Casement served in the Niger, Mozambique, Angola, and, most momentously, in the Congo, where he witnessed the appalling crimes under Belgian colonial rule and was a key player in the humanitarian campaign that exposed them, forcing King Leopold II to surrender his personal control of the colony. His growing interest and involvement in Irish affairs, culminating in his attempts to aid the 1916 Rising and his execution for treason, is narrated here. In an epilogue, O'Siochain examines the question that has dominated Casement's afterlife: whether his black diaries, detailing homosexual adventures, were forged by the British in order to discredit him at his trial for treason and effect a judicial assassination. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, 656pp, IRELAND. LILLIPUT.

Hugh Clapperton was one of Africa's greatest 19th-century explorers. Seemingly forgotten for years, he is now brought to life in Jamie Bruce Lockhart's magnificent new biography. Clapper-ton was born in Annan in the Scottish borders in 1788. Like many Scots of his generation, he saw service at sea as the path to fame and riches in the British Empire. During the Napoleonic Wars, he served in the Mediterranean and the East Indies, and on the Great Lakes of Canada in the war with the United States. After his discharge as a lieutenant in 1817, boredom and thirst for adventure spurred him to exploration in Africa. He participated in two expeditions to map the Niger and the vast unexplored hinterland of the Guinea coast, and had command of the second of these - a full scale diplomatic mission to a region of huge importance to Britain's burgeoning political and commercial imperial interests. 344pp, UK. I B TAURIS.

New edition of classic history telling of European conquest of Africa between 1880 and 1910, when five European powers annexed 10 million square miles with 110 million new subjects. Illustrated with b/w images. Index, maps, bib, maps, 738pp, UK. ABACUS.

A collection of essays looking at the relationship between environmental ideas and the practices of Africans, colonial officials, settlers and scientists. The authors use a range of sources to bring a new perspectives to the scholarship on African landscape and identity and the construction of ethnicity. Index, notes, maps, b/w photographs, xii, 274pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Historians have traditionally viewed the military as an arm of the civil power, an institution which did not create policy but faithfully obeyed the directives given to it. These essays show that indeed the military thought for itself: its officers made policy, introduced new strategies and tactics, and utilized the services of local settlers and indigenes to pursue the interests of empire, and the rank and file informed ideas in Great Britain concerning Africa and Africans. Contributors include: Edward M. Spiers, Ian F.W. Beckett, Bill Nasson, John Laband, Paul Thompson, Fransjohan Pretorius, Jeffrey Meriwether, and Bruce Vandervort. 342pp, NETHERLANDS. BRILL.

A biography of the American journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley whose career marked both the Victorian age and the course colonial expansion. The author looks at the human cost of his triumphs and delves into his complex personality and his troubled relationship with Africa and King Leopold II of Belgium. First published in two volumes 1991. Illustrated with b/w maps and images. Index, notes, 499pp, UK. PIMLICO.

New in paperback. Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa - who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, remembered in the words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'. Or so we think: but as Jeal shows, none of these perceptions is quite true. The reality of Stanley's life, even by the exceptional standards of the Victorian age, is yet more extraordinary. Rejected by both parents at birth and consigned to a Welsh workhouse, he emigrated to America, fought in the Civil War - on both sides - before becoming a journalist and then an explorer. Index, bib, col & b/w photos, 560pp, UK. FABER.

A life of the celebrated Victorian traveller and the discoverer of "the Mountains of the Moon". Foreword by Thomas Pakenham. Index, bib, nottes. b/w illus, maps, 281pp. IRELAND. LILLIPUT PRESS.

1994 1874675201 Hardback

The district officer - the D.O. - was the pivot of the British Colonial Administration throughout the British Empire, as was his counterpart in India - immortalized in Philip Woodruff's The Men who Ruled India. The D.O. who was both administrator and magistrate and the essential link with the professional and technical services and essentially, with the indigenous population - the 600,000,000 people they served - in an empire of service rather than domination. In this book, Anthony Kirk-Greene, who was himself a distinguished member of the Nigeria Service, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and official papers, and his own experience, to paint a vivid picture of the service and a never-to-be-repeated episode in British history. Index, bib, notes, map, tables, 333pp, UK. IB TAURIS.

A 'small war', consisting of a few 'local affairs', was all that was expected in August 1914 as Britain moved to eliminate the threat to the high seas of German naval bases in Africa. But two weeks after the Armistice was signed in Europe British and German troops were still fighting in Africa after four years of what one campaign historian described as 'a war of extermination and attrition without parallel in modern times'. The expense of the campaign to the British Empire was immense, the Allied and German 'butchers bills' even greater. But the most tragic consequence of the two sides' deadly game of 'tip and run' was the devastation of an area five times the size of Germany, and civilian suffering on a scale unimaginable in Europe. Such was the cost of 'The White Man's Palaver', the final phase of the European conquest of Africa. Index, bib, b/w photos, maps 488pp, UK. PHOENIX.

Examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. 230pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A history of British colonial policy and thinking and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Looks at the structural constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. 408pp, USA. OHIO U P.

This book focuses on the creation of and struggle over urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa - Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and on the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. 16 illus. xxii, 199 pages, index. USA. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian traveller's descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. BNS, 256pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia and the Far East, Saul David shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire. He argues that little of this territorial acquisition was planned or sanctioned by the home government. Instead it was largely the work of the men on the ground, and to those at home it really did seem that the empire was acquired in 'a fit of absence of mind'. 528pp, UK. PENGUIN.

Investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European wars in Africa, exploring the role of both the imperial powers and the Africans who joined or resisted them. The author assesses to what extent the historical memory of conquest and resistance has shaped the evolution of a modern African identity. Notes, bib, index, maps, xviii, 274pp, UK. UCL PRESS.

It was not just ships, soldiers and missionaries that drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role too. Explores the extent to which the types of written information that resulted during colonial expansion shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards. 496pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

2010 9781919895260 Hardback

Tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. 256pp, UK. I B TAURIS.