| |
| |
| List of Illustrations and Tables | |
| |
| |
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| |
| |
| Preface to the First Edition | |
| |
| |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| |
| |
| |
| Africanist History and the History of Africa | |
| |
| |
| |
| 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 | |
| |
| |
| |
| The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital | |
| |
| |
| The Portuguese Epoch | |
| |
| |
| The Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| |
| |
| The Foundations of South Africa | |
| |
| |
| The Age of Merchant Capital | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800-70 | |
| |
| |
| 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 | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Conquest of Africa | |
| |
| |
| Imperialism: Theory and Practice | |
| |
| |
| The Build-up to Conquest | |
| |
| |
| The Partition of Africa | |
| |
| |
| Resistance, Collaboration and Contradiction in African Society | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900-40 | |
| |
| |
| The Era of Force and the Chartered Companies | |
| |
| |
| Mines | |
| |
| |
| White Settlers | |
| |
| |
| Lords and Chiefs | |
| |
| |
| Peasant Production | |
| |
| |
| The Colonial State | |
| |
| |
| |
| Culture, Class and Social Change in Colonial Africa, 1900-40 | |
| |
| |
| Class Relations in Colonial Africa | |
| |
| |
| Culture and Social Organisation | |
| |
| |
| A Changing Faith | |
| |
| |
| The Modalities of Resistance | |
| |
| |
| Thuku and Chilembwe | |
| |
| |
| |
| Industrialisation and South African Society, 1900-40 | |
| |
| |
| Reconstruction and Union | |
| |
| |
| An Era of Confrontation | |
| |
| |
| Pact and Fusion | |
| |
| |
| The Crisis of the 1940s | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Decolonisation of Africa, 1940-60 | |
| |
| |
| 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 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Tropical Africa, 1960-80: Class, State and the Problem of Development | |
| |
| |
| Neo-colonial Myths and Realities | |
| |
| |
| The Ruling Class in Contemporary Africa | |
| |
| |
| Class, Party and State | |
| |
| |
| |
| Southern Africa in Crisis | |
| |
| |
| The Nationalist Party Victory and its Implications | |
| |
| |
| The Armed Struggle in Southern Africa | |
| |
| |
| The Challenges of the 1970s and 1980s | |
| |
| |
| The End of Apartheid | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Age of Structural Adjustment | |
| |
| |
| Intensifying Contradictions in the 1970s | |
| |
| |
| Crisis after 1980 | |
| |
| |
| Structural Adjustment in Ghana and Uganda | |
| |
| |
| Decay of the State; Drive for Democracy | |
| |
| |
| A New Africa Struggles into Being | |
| |
| |
| Annotated Bibliography | |
| |
| |
| Index | |