How Europe underdeveloped Africa
Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa. With oppression and liberation his main concern, he 'delves into the past', as he says in his preface, 'only because otherwise it would be impossible to…
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- Full title :How Europe underdeveloped Africa / Walter Rodney.
Summary
Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa. With oppression and liberation his main concern, he 'delves into the past', as he says in his preface, 'only because otherwise it would be impossible to understand how the present came into being? In the search for an understanding of what is now called.
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- Publication Date:©1981
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Black Classic Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1981
Notes
Originally published in 1972. Rev. ed. originally published in 1981.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 312 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781574780529, 1574780522
- oclc:ocn815651132
- LC Classification:HC800 .R62 2012eb
- Dewey Decimal:960
Table of Contents
Preface; Contents; Introduction; I. Some Questions on Development; II. How Africa Developed before the Coming of the Europeans -- Up to the Fifteenth Century; III. Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development -- The Pre-Colonial Period; IV. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment -- To 1885; V. Africa's Contributoin to the Capitalist Development of Europe -- The Colonial Period; VI. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa; Postscript by A.M. Babu; Index.
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