John D. Hargreaves

"Anthology of over sixty documents and extracts illustrating the history of what was formally known as French West Africa, an attempt has been made not only to provide texts which will open up a discussion of historical problems s but also to illustrate the range of documentary sources available for the profound study of African history."
"It may be useful here to recapitulate the six themes of modern West African history which my chapters deal with. First, the nature and effects of early European dealings with those parts of the West African coast which eventually became French;then the development of the distinctive character of the small French establishments in Senegal, which formed the nucleus of the later empire; thirdly the Islamic counter-force which began to take shape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
(This book was first published in 1969, so it's interesting to review what has happened in these 5 decades.… (mehr)