From Slave Trade to Empire

Taylor & Francis

This book provides a new perspective on the colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century and focuses on the role of Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. > Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies. > 1. Introduction: A missing link? The significance of the Years 1780s-1880s - Olivier P\u00E9tr\u00E9-Grenouilleau, Lorient University and the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris Part One: Economic Relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: a Global Weighing up 2. African and European Relations in the Last Century of the Transatlantic Slave .