Lewis H. Gann

The Rulers of Belgian Africa, 1884-1914

In this comprehensive picture of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, Lewis Gann and Peter Duignan trace the formation of the colonial state that became Zaire, considering it in the light of colonial experience in other African territories. Whereas most studies have focused on the conquest and subjugation of the African population, this study probes the colonial apparatus itself, investigating the attitudes and behavior of the civil servants and soldiers who built the empire.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Germans in the Tropics: Essays in German Colonial History

Tables Abbreviations in the Notes Introduction Acknowledgments Marginal Colonialism: The German Case by Lewis H. Gann The German Colonial Society by Richard V. Pierard Anthropology and German Colonialism by Woodruff D. Smith Enemies of the Colonial Idea by Helmuth Stoecker and Peter Sebald translated by Lewis H. Gann Slave Labor and Wage Labor in German Togo, 1885-1914 by Donna J.E.Maier The Neglected Empire: The Superstructure of the Colonial State in German Malanesia by Peter Hempenstall The Position of Africans in the German Colonies by Helmuth Stoecker Decision-Making for the German Colonies by Arthur J. Knoll German Imperialism in Historical Perspective by Winfried Baumgart Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

The Rulers of German Africa 1884-1914

The first book in a planned series dealing with the social structure of the European colonial services in Africa, this volume examines Germanys military and administrative personnel in the colonies of German East Africa, South-West Africa, Cameroun, and Togo: their performance on the scene, their educational and class background, their ideology, their continuing ties with the homeland, and their subsequent careers. Although the African colonies played a negligible part in German trade and foreign investment, they were profoundly affected by thirty years of German rule. Brutal and overbearing though many German administrators were, they had substantial achievements to their credit. Among other things, they introduced European technology, medicine, and education in their colonies, and they laid the groundwork for todays states by establishing firm geographic boundaries and building an infrastructure of ports, roads, and railways.

Colonial Rule in Africa@@@Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960. Volume II, The History and Politics of Colonialism 1914-1960

In a review published in this journal last year, this writer noted that the forthcoming volumes of the series Colonialism in Africa 1870190, edited by Messrs Gann and Duignan, were anticipated with sane confidence that they would maintain the scholarship and continuity of the first volume. Now the second volume of this ambitious series has appeared, and once again we are faced with a compendium: an anthology of some fourteen pieces all written by different scholars, and most dealing with quite different regions or topics. Like the first volume, this collection is so broad in scope that it almost defies any specific review of each of its component parts. But unlike the first volume which had a topical arrangement giving it a kind of chronological and geographic continuity, this volume is organized around several distinct though related problems having to do with the several structures of colonial rule in Africa, whether French, British, Portuguese, or Belgian. Thus, it confronts the reviewer with an almost impossible task. By rights it ought to be reviewed by a panel of experts, though such an event is not likely to occur. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the specialist, and there are several things which must be said about it.

Imperialism@@@Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume I, The History and Politics of Colonialism 1870-1914@@@Modern Imperialism: Western Overseas Expansion and Its Aftermath, 1776-1965@@@Europe in the Age of Imperialism, 1880-1914

The author discusses the conditions which made global imperialism possible, and examines the results of the nineteenth-century scientific and technological revolution, as well as the political relations among the Great Powers. By concentrating on both the social and economic bases of imperialism, their ideological implications, and their expression in the arts, he presents a wholly original analysis which opens up a new approach to this crucial epoch.