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Description:
This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and
19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in
the world system.
The book interrogates the economic and legal structures that supported
European intervention in Africa. It explores the trade and private property
rights which were to shape the economic future of the continent, most notably
the trade in human beings as legitimate private property by European powers.
The book then looks at the techniques used to submerge African sovereignty
under European sovereignty during the scramble for territorial control in the
19th century, concluding with the validation of occupation in international
law following the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference. The book argues that the
doctrines of trade and property rights sanctioned by international law led to a
trend of African dispossession that set the continent on a path to underdevelopment, with long-reaching consequences.
This book will be of interest to researchers and students across law, history,
economics, international relations, and African studies
Table of Contents:
1 The Third World and Nature of World Order
2 From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Incorporation into the World Order
3 People as Property: The Transatlantic Slave Trade, International Law, and the Making of the New World
4 Industrial Capitalism, Concepts of Improvement, and the Civilising Mission Metaphor in Africa
5 The Scramble for Africa: Non-State Actors and Acquisitions by Cession Treaties
6 Public Law Arrangements: The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884–1885 and the Partition of Africa
7 General Concluding Remarks
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