TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vandervort,Bruce
TI  - Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914
SN  - 9781857284874 ( alk. paper)
U1  - 960.3 VAN 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - UCL Press,Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Africa
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Europe
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Colonial influence
N1  - Gratis $24.00/-; Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index; Introduction: A Historiographical Revolution
Chapter 1, Lords of the Land: Africans on the Eve of Conquest
Chapter 2, Masters of the Water: The European Invaders
Chapter 3, A Shifting Balance, 1830-1880
Chapter 4, Flood Tide, 1880-1898
Chapter 5, Ominous Portents, 1902-1914
Chapter 6, Legacies; First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
N2  - "An eminently readable and useful treatment of the military's role in the European colonialization . . . an interesting, sometimes fascinating, account of conflict in Africa . . . " —Parameters
"There is no comparable work. None covers as broad a topic—the experience of colonial wars of all the imperial powers and at the same time a consideration of the African wars of resistance against the imperial attacks." —William B. Cohen, Indiana University

This path-breaking work investigates the social, economic, and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished
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