Africa and the New Imperialism, part of the Adam Matthew collections of primary sources, documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the early nineteenth century; to the rise in European desire for increased power, empire and wealth culminating in the Berlin Conference 1885-1886; to the subsequent power struggles, negotiations and conflicts that raged across the continent at the turn of the twentieth century, the documents within Africa and the New Imperialism charts Africa’s encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.
Materials Included:
You will find correspondence, government files, sketches, photographs, journal entries and other reports. Each document within Africa and the New Imperialism has been tagged with a region. These regions are broad and are intended to provide support in browsing and navigating the documents presented within this resource. The entries are tagged as Central Africa, East Africa, Horn of Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, or West Africa.
Themes covered in this collection:
- Imperialism
- Slavery and forced labor
- Diplomacy
- Religion and missionaries
- Race and ethnicity
- War and violence
- Resistance to colonialism
- Technology and infrastructure
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