Merchant Capital And Economic Decolonization
The United Africa Company 1929–1987
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9322853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D K Fieldhouse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Pages | 832 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Merchant capital and economic decolonization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198226253.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388315070 |
| Open Library | OL1085783M |
| ISBN | 9780198226253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
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
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Corporation · Decolonization · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Political science · Politics · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Africa · Capital · Colonial influence · Dependency on foreign countries · Economic conditions · United Africa Company, ltd
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Proconsuls at the Top
West Africa
Africa and Africas
The ‘Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies’
The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana
Nigeria and World War II
Blonde and blue‐eyed? Globalizing beauty , c. 1945– c. 1980 1
Solid intentions
The Rise of Branded Alcoholic Drinks in West Africa
European integration and corporate restructuring
Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c . 1840–1940
Between settler colonialism, regionalisation and Africanisation
Unilever, contract farmers and co‐operatives in Cameroon
The Dynamics of Celluloid on the Road to Independence
Taking Fieldhouse further
Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons
From colonial empires to developing countries and on to emerging economies
The transformation of the global palm oil cluster
Lonrho in Africa
Managing a “People Business” in Times of Uncertainty
Expropriations of Foreign Property and Political Alliances
Globalising the History of Capital
Political strategies of British business during decolonization
David Fieldhouse and the business of empire
Oil Exploration in Colonial Nigeria, c . 1903–58
Instilling the ‘sterling tradition’
Mammon in paradise
Cultivating the African’
Kings of Quinine
Quelques Satisfactions d'Amour-propre’
What Was the Late Colonial State
Building Brand Reputation through Third-Party Endorsement
Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals
Africanization in British Multinationals in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945–1970
The Devil We Know”
Reconstruction, development and the entrepreneurial state
British Government, British Businesses, and the Indigenization Exercise in Post-Independence Nigeria
Doorway to Success?”
Building Up Goodwill
Who Belongs to the ‘Star People’? Negotiating Beer and Gin Advertisements in West Africa , 1949– 75
Changing corporate domicile
The Modern Shopping Experience
Trade, empire, and the fiscal context of imperial business during decolonization
The complexity of exchange
Merchant Capitalism, Peasant Households and Industrial Accumulation
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,48 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |