Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
21 - Africa in world history
from Part IV - World regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
Summary
The depth of Africa's past became an argument for its liberation in the twentieth century. For some Europeans, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Africans were the enslaveable other, exploitable at will. Some of the most important recent studies of the Atlantic slave trade have focused on its origins and found them in the intersection of networks that connected different worlds. Looking at Africa over the course of the century, what stands out is the complex relationship of new connections to new boundaries, of integration to marginalization, of inclusion to distinction-making. Research is increasingly revealing just how unstable the place of colonies, and how uncertain the place of Africa, was in the world order. Post-colonial critique, itself following years in which colonialism was considered a mere sidelight to national histories, tended to treat colonial rule as an all-embracing grid of power imposed on Africans, underscored by strong racial hierarchy.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 556 - 584Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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