Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization
The United Africa Company 1929-1987
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 1 December 1994
- ISBN 9780198226253
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages864 pages
- Size 243x158x50 mm
- Weight 1373 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
The United Africa Company, formed in 1929, was the largest single commercial organization in West and Equatorial Africa. This is a comprehensive and detailed account of its history based on unrestricted access to the archives. It is the first published history of the company and fills a serious gap in modern African economic history.
MoreLong description:
The United Africa Company (UAC), formed in 1929 by the fusion of the Niger Company and the African and Eastern Corporation, was by far the largest single commercial organization in West and Equatorial Africa, and thus central to modern African economic history. This is the first detailed account to be published and one which fills a serious gap in the literature. It was not commissioned by the company (now reabsorbed into Unilever) but the author had full access to all confidential material in the UAC and Unilever archives and complete freedom in what he wrote. The book is not intended to be primarily a company history but uses the UAC as a focal point for detailed study of how the role of foreign merchant capital changed in response to economic and political developments in Black Africa during this critical half century.
great book, which tells the story of the UAC from 1929...this is a splendid volume, in every way worthy of the Emeritus Professor of Imperial and Naval History in the University of Cambridge
