John D Hargreaves
Biographic Data
| ID | 123138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Hargreaves |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hargreaves |
| SIGNATURE | HARGREAVES J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 186 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 421 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 185 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Colonial Reforms and Imperial Strategies, c. 1945-49
In Africa, unlike eastern Asia, it was by no means clear that the war had fatally weakened the colonial empires. Labour took office with a set of principled attitudes towards foreign and colonial affairs rather than any alternative policy. Hostility to imperialism and aspirations to promote universal peace and fraternity were tempered by an instinctive patriotism which had been reinforced by experience of policy-making within the wartime coalitio…
Conditions of Tranquility in Black Africa
European control was tightest in Algeria, where settlers from the European shores of the Mediterranean, numbering between an eighth and a tenth of the population, controlled half of the land north of the Sahara desert, including all the most fertile areas. Muslim North Africa was thus not a tranquil region, even in the 1920s. But the European military presence was relatively strong, and it was widely assumed that the physical and cultural barrier…
Forces of Change in the 1930s
The financial crisis, which led to cuts in investment, large-scale unemployment and impoverishment in industrial countries, drastically reduced demand for the minerals and agricultural produce on which the export trade of every colony depended. Labour migration had in many areas begun long before the colonial occupation; nineteenth-century groundnut production in Senegambia was expanded largely by navetanes or strange farmers, travelling long dis…
The Mobilization of African Discontents, 1939-47
The one African country where political nationalism seriously threatened the Allied war effort was Egypt. France&s;s North African dependencies had always been part of that world, and during the 1930s various new political organizations had reflected growing anti-colonialism among both French- and Arabic-speakers. Algeria still lacked any comparable national focus; lip-service paid by the Third Republic to assimilationist principles had diverted …
War and the African Empires, 1939-45
The immediate effects in Africa of the declaration of war by Britain and France against Germany on 3 September 1939 were limited and localized. Africans played only minor roles in these dramatic events. Political doctrines apart, all France&s;s African subjects suffered new hardships in consequence of the interruption of peacetime patterns of production and trade, and of increased demands by their rulers. Colonial governments, tacitly assuming th…
Growing Hopes of Independence
A crucial struggle to secure control over the process of decolonization took place in the Gold Coast, where colonial reformers at times lost the initiative to a new type of political party which mobilized African discontents on a platform of populist nationalism. The Commissioners discharged this wide remit speedily, visiting the Gold Coast from 7 April until 9 May and submitting a comprehensive report one month later. In Britain&s;s post-war cri…
The End of the Affair
In the General Election of October 1959 African policy for the first time became a party issue, if a minor one. While party manifestos naturally placed overwhelming emphasis on domestic issues, the Labour party declared that &s;the future of Africa is poised as perilously as that of India in 1945&s;. Macleod&s;s mission was thus to provide genuine moral conviction in justification of that speedy disengagement from imperial responsibilities which …
Recalculations in the 1950s
The African colonies, like Malaya, remained essential contributors to the currency reserves of the sterling area, still far from secure during the Conservatives&s; first year of office. Gold Coast and Nigerian ministers seeking greater freedom to invest their own reserves and establish their own central banks were encouraged to see the advantages of a longer-term developmental alliance. During the mid-1950s the economic and political constraints …
Retrospect, 1995
The ruling elites charged with their government had often expressed an intention to bring their rule to an end once their self-appointed missions were complete. Contemplating conditions in the Africa of the 1990s, few would claim that the missions had been satisfactorily completed. Politically, the central theme of decolonization became the creation of self-governing nation-states. The French grouped some of the building-blocks into quasi-federat…
Decolonization in Africa
John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships
Themes in West Africa's History (review)
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (ed.), Themes in West Africa's History. Oxford: James Currey (pb £16.95 – 0 85255 995 X; hb £50.00 – 0 85255 996 8); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb 49.95 – 0 8214 1640 5); Accra: Woeli (pb price not stated – 9988 626 56 8). 2006, 322 pp. - Volume 77 Issue 2
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES Banchory Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1325–1326, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1325 Published: 01 November 1997
Academe and Empire: Some Overseas Connections of Aberdeen University 1860-1970
The African Experience with Higher Education
Antecedents - before 1900 colonialism and higher education decolonization and higher education 1945-60 the politics of independence and higher education 1960-70 the association of African universities higher education and African development 1970s and 1980s issues and problems of the 1990s towards the 21st century the mission of the university reviewed new expectations and reorientations the outreach
Imperialism and Its Contradictions
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES Banchory, Aberdeenshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 762–764, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.762 Published: 01 June 1996
African History: The First University Examination
The first generation of history students from Africa to graduate from British universities inevitably had to face extended examinations, with specialized papers largely centered on European history. When Kenneth Onwuka Dike arrived in Aberdeen University in 1944 he had already contended successfully at Fourah Bay College with the Durham syllabuses for the General BA. Now, however, thanks to the goodwill of Professor J. B. Black (best known as aut…
Decolonisation: French and British Styles
‘The colonial policy of Great Britain and France in West Africa has been widely different’, Lord Salisbury wrote in 1892; historians have ever since been debating whether the differences are more apparent than real. Beyond the close comparisons which colonial historians make of policy statements, governmental structures and administrative practice there lies a deeper historiographical issue: what power does the ablest Minister or Governor possess…
Andcolonialism in British Politics: The left and the end of Empire 1918–1964
Journal Article Andcolonialism in British Politics: The left and the end of Empire 1918–1964 Get access Andcolonialism in British Politics: The left and the end of Empire 1918–1964, by Stephen Howe. Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi+373. £40.00 hardback. 0–19–820423–X. JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES Banchory Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages …
Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British colonial policy in tropical Africa, 1951–1964
Journal Article Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British colonial policy in tropical Africa, 1951–1964 Get access Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British colonial policy in tropical Africa, 1951–1964, by Philip Murphy. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995. xii + 259 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0-19-820505-8 JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES Banchory Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
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African students in Britain: The case of Aberdeen university
This contribution derives from a study of Aberdeen University's overseas connections, commissioned as part of its Quincentennial History Project. Aberdeen's contribution to the education of African students has always been modest; in a 1963–64 table of overseas students, it ranked fifteenth among British universities, with about 70 students from Africa. Although its experience may or may not be typical, the study suggests that it may exemplify so…
French Colonial Africa: A guide to official sources
Journal Article French Colonial Africa: A guide to official sources Get access French Colonial Africa: A guide to official sources, by Gloria D. Westfall. Hans Zell Publishers, London, 1992. x+226 pp. £30. ISBN 1-873836-0. JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES Banchory Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 369, October 1993, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.…
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade
Prelude to the partition of West Africa
Decolonization in Africa
John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships
The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal: The Struggle for Power in the Four Communes, 1900-1920
Towards a History of the Partition of Africa
The partition of Africa is one of those historical processes which have been more discussed than studied. Everybody knows that between 1884 and 1898 the soil of Africa was very largely apportioned to the sovereignty of European powers; the results are written on the modern map, the details of the various agreements are not too difficult to check. Most writers on the subject, moreover, have clear views about the historical significance of the whol…
IV. The Establishment of the Sierra Leone Protectorate and the Insurrection of 1898
The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in settlements of freed slaves on the West African coast carried out on the initiative of British philanthropists in the later eighteenth century. For over a century, British responsibility was as far as possible restricted to the small mountainous peninsula on which Freetown stands, and to certain nearby islands; but influence was inevitably obtained over nearby coast and hinterland, and during the nineteent…
The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism, 1870-1945
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism
Africa under colonial domination 1880–1935
Journal Article Africa under colonial domination 1880–1935 Get access Africa under colonial domination 1880–1935. Edited by A. Adu Boahen. London: Heinemann Educational for UNESCO, Paris. 1985. 865pp. Index. (UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. 7.) £16.50. ISBN 0 435 94813 X. John D. Hargreaves John D. Hargreaves 1University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, I…
Imperialism and Its Contradictions
West African Diamonds 1919–1983: An Economic History
Journal Article West African Diamonds 1919–1983: An Economic History Get access West African Diamonds 1919–1983: An Economic History, by Peter Greenhalgh. Manchester University Press, 1985. xiv + 306 pp. £25 JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 338, January 1986, Pages 131–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.a…
The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa
African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopaedia
Journal Article African Boundaries: a legal and diplomatic encyclopaedia Get access African Boundaries: a legal and diplomatic encyclopaedia, by Ian Brownlie with the assistance of Ian R. Burns. C. Hurst & Company, London; University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, for R.I.I.A., 1979. xxxvi+1355pp. 2 kilograms. £60. JOHN D. HARGREAVES JOHN D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
The Comintern and Anti-Colonialism: New Research Opportunities
Journal Article THE COMINTERN AND ANTI-COLONIALISM: NEW RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES Emeritus Professor of History University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 255–261, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098613 Published: 01 April 1993
Holy Johnson. Pioneer of African Nationalism 1836-1917
Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal
This preliminary discussion of the process of assimilation in eighteenth-century Senegal considers how Africans were drawn into the French colonial community through employment; trade; marriage and concubinage; and also through the Portuguese Creole communities to the south of Cape Verde. The extent of their assimilation is discussed with reference to religion; participation in civic institutions; and the acceptance of certain European values. Fi…
France, soldiers and Africa
Journal Article France, soldiers and Africa Get access France, soldiers and Africa. By Anthony Clayton. London: Brassey's. 1988. 444pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 0 080 34748 7. John D. Hargreaves John D. Hargreaves 1University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Page 726, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626149 Published: 01 October 1988
Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society
Journal Article Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society Get access Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society. By Basil Davidson. London: Allen Lane. 1978. 431 pp. £7.95. John D. Hargreaves John D. Hargreaves 1University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 157–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617198 Published: 01…
Western African History
The French Presence in Black Africa
On the Frontiers of Islam
From Strangers to Minorities in West Africa
I am somewhat daunted by the honour of opening this conference; for what I have to offer is not the product of intensive scholarship but a broad and possibly contentious argument about the whole sub-continent of West Africa (roughly bounded by the Senegal river, Lake Chad and Mount Cameroon). My underlying hypotheses will be that many so-called minority problems in contemporary Africa derive from changes introduced by the creation of colonial sta…
France and West Africa: An Anthology of Historical Documents
Fashoda Reconsidered. The Impact of Domestic Politics on French Policy in Africa 1893-1898
West Africa: The Former French States
T he O rigin of the A nglo ‐F rench M ilitary C onversations in 1905
IV. Entente Manquée: Anglo-French Relations, 1895–1896
In the voluminous historiography of international relations between 1871 and 1914, one of the thinnest patches is the middle 90's. Documents Diplomatiques Français had in 1939 not reached the years 1893–1900, and even now are filling this gap only slowly; the British archives for 1885–1902 were not opened until 1948; Russian material is slight. The consequent dependence of students upon Die Grosse Politik has had profound effects. French policy s…
West African Institute of Social and Economic Research
Journal Article West African Institute of Social and Economic Research Get access West African Institute of Social and Economic Research J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 212, July 1954, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094231 Published: 01 July 1954
Western Democracy and African Society
Western Democracy and African Society: Some Reflections from Sierra Leone Get access J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1955, Pages 327–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607259 Published: 01 July 1955
The Christian Church and Islam in West Africa
Journal Article The Christian Church and Islam in West Africa Get access The Christian Church and Islam in West Africa. By J. Spencer Trimingham. London, SCM Press, 1955. 56 pp. Map. (I.M.C. Research Pamphlets. No. 3.) 81⁄2′′×51⁄2′′. 3s. J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 1956, Page 250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625895 Publishe…
IV. The Establishment of the Sierra Leone Protectorate and the Insurrection of 1898
The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in settlements of freed slaves on the West African coast carried out on the initiative of British philanthropists in the later eighteenth century. For over a century, British responsibility was as far as possible restricted to the small mountainous peninsula on which Freetown stands, and to certain nearby islands; but influence was inevitably obtained over nearby coast and hinterland, and during the nineteent…
A History of Education in British West Africa
A History of Education in British West Africa Get access A History of Education in British West Africa. By Colin G. WiseLondon, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green, 1956. viii+134 pp. Bibliog. Index. 71⁄2′′×5′′. 6s. 6d. J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1957, Pages 384–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605553 Published: 01 July 1957
African History in the Making
African History in the Making Get access African History in the Making. By J. McLeod Campbell Foreword by D. Lindsay Keir. London, Edinburgh House Press, 1956. 120 pp. Index. 83⁄4′′ ×53⁄4′′. 7s 6d. J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1957, Page 384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605552 Published: 01 July 1957
The Gold Coast in Transition
Journal Article The Gold Coast in Transition Get access The Gold Coast in Transition. By David E. Apter Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1955. xiii+355 pp. Illus. Map. Bibliog. Index. 91⁄2×61⁄4′′. $5. 40s. J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1957, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608944 Publish…
Lord Salisbury, British Isolation and the Yangtze Valley, June-september, 1900
LORD SALISBURY, BRITISH ISOLATION AND THE YANGTZE VALLEY, JUNE–SEPTEMBER, 1900 J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 30, Issue 81, May 1957, Pages 62–75, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1957.tb01357.x Published: 12 October 2007
A Short History of Education in British West Africa
Journal Article A Short History of Education in British West Africa Get access A Short History of Education in British West Africa. By F. H. Hilliard. London, Nelson, 1957. vi+186 pp. Map endpapers. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 6s. J. D. Hargreaves J. D. Hargreaves Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 1958, Page 393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605238 Published: 01 July 19…
Short Notices
Educating Young Nations
Towards a History of the Partition of Africa
The partition of Africa is one of those historical processes which have been more discussed than studied. Everybody knows that between 1884 and 1898 the soil of Africa was very largely apportioned to the sovereignty of European powers; the results are written on the modern map, the details of the various agreements are not too difficult to check. Most writers on the subject, moreover, have clear views about the historical significance of the whol…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCXCIX, April 1961, Pages 375-b–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCXCIX.375-b Published: 01 April 1961
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCV, October 1962, Pages 786–787, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCV.786 Published: 01 October 1962
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCIV, July 1962, Pages 590-a–590, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCIV.590-a Published: 01 July 1962
Contribution on Fashoda - ‘Aux Origines de Fachoda: L'Expédition Monteil’ (Extrait de la Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, Tomes XXXVI and XXXVIII). By J. Stengers. Bruxelles, 1960
Contribution on Fashoda - ‘Aux Origines de Fachoda: l'Expédition Monteil’ (Extrait de la Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, Tomes XXXVI and XXXVIII). By J. Stengers. Bruxelles, 1960. - Volume 3 Issue 1
Prelude to the partition of West Africa
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVIII, Issue CCCIX, October 1963, Pages 805–806, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVIII.CCCIX.805 Published: 01 October 1963
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIX, Issue CCCXIII, October 1964, Pages 870-a–870, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIX.CCCXIII.870-a Published: 01 October 1964
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIX, Issue CCCXI, April 1964, Pages 431–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIX.CCCXI.431 Published: 01 April 1964
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access J. D. HARGREAVES J. D. HARGREAVES University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIX, Issue CCCX, January 1964, Page 201, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIX.CCCX.201 Published: 01 January 1964
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Biography and the Debate about Imperialism
Historians sometimes claim to be making their own modest contribution to the African revolution by re-establishing the identity of Africa's pre-colonial past. But it should not be thought that the relevance of their work to modern Africa can end there, nor even that this is the most difficult of the adjustments of perspective which they will need to make. Now that the colonial flags are coming down, European and African historians will need to lo…
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