Let freedom come
Subtitle: Africa in modern history
By: by Basil Davidson. --
Edition: 1st American ed. --
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Boston; Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780316174350
Subjects: Africa -- History -- 1884-1960; Africa -- History -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Part one : Introductory : Setting the scene.; title: The century of nationalism; title: Structure and contingence; title: On the eve; title: Part two : Before nationalism.; title: Founding charters; title: Development within the African model; title: Nineteenth-century growth and crisis; title: Part three : The colonial model : 1890-1939.; title: The reasons why; title: Completing the enclosure; title: Doctrine and reality; title: The system to 1930 : 1. Labour; title: The system to 1930 : 2. Land; title: The system to 1930 : 3. Trade; title: The great slump and the 1930s; title: Facing the consequences; title: Part four : African responses : 1890-1939.; title: The many and the few : a great divide; title: From prophets to strike-leaders; title: "Useless visionaries, detestable clerks"; title: In the Fench context; title: Part five : The drive for nationhood : 1940 to about 1960.; title: "Freedom nothing but freedom"; title: After the Second the World War : the system expanded; title: New pace-makers; title: Winning the political kingdom : in British West Africa; title: In French Africa : the dual struggle; title: From East to South Africa : the settler factor; title: In the lesser empires; title: Part six : But whose nation? : The search renewed.; title: The gains of independence; title: Wrestling with the imported model : anger and frustration; title: Wrestling with the imported model : underlying causes; title: New departures : towards an African model; title: The politics of liberation; title: Under the southern cross; title: The limits of nationalism, and beyond?; title: Useful dates : List one : Late c.19 to 1920; title: List two : 1920-40; title: List three : 1940-70; title: List four : National independences; title: List five : Population totals