Imperial Business in Africa Part II. Interpretations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A G Hopkins (University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-290 |
| Publication date | 1976-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700001328 |
| OpenAlex | W2132142308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article, which is in two parts, aims to establish expatriate business history as a necessary and important part of modern African history. Part I surveyed approximately fifty histories of European companies in West, Central and East Africa during the colonial period and drew attention to newly-discovered and little-known records. Part II begins by assessing the quality of the studies listed in Part I, and suggests ways in which the level of scholarship can be raised to meet standards set by professionally-written business history. The article then formulates and explores a number of propositions concerning the spatial distribution and changing size, structure, strategy and performance of expatriate business in Africa. It is argued that many of these propositions cut across established but inadequately supported views, and that the development of business history has wider implications for the study of the colonial history of Africa
Archaeology · Business history · Colonialism · Economic history · Expatriate · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Scholarship · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Business in Independent Africa
Aspects of economic history
Angola and Mozambique, 1870–1905
British West Africa and Liberia
Portuguese Africa
East Africa 1870–1905
Introduction
Islam
Belgian Africa
French Congo and Gabon 1886–1905
Africa on the Eve of Partition
Aspects of economic history
Western Africa, 1870–1886
The Maghrib
East Africa
British Central Africa
Africa and Africas
African cross-currents
Western Africa, 1886–1905
North Africa
Madagascar and France, 1870–1905
French black Africa
Indigenous Credit Institutions in West Africa, c.1750-c.1960
The European Partition of Africa
The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
Narrative accounting disclosure
King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908
The Cambridge History of Africa
The Cambridge History of Africa
Notes towards a Financial History of Copper Mining in Northern Rhodesia
Ungentlemanly capitalism’
Whitehall, Cape Town, Berlin and the economic partition of South‐West Africa
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)
The eternal adolescent? An interdisciplinary meta-narrative review of African business history
Competing Interests
The Business Firm in Africa
Business Failure, Capital Investment and Information
The Devil We Know”
Copperbelt Merger
Le Mythe Parisien de la Mise en Valeur des Colonies Africaines à l'Aube du XXe Siècle
German Capital, The Netherlands Railway Company and the Political Economy of the Transvaal 1886–1900
Towards a History of Mass Violence in the Etat Indépendant du Congo, 1885-1908
Foreign banks, Africans, and credit in colonial Nigeria, c. 1890‐1912
Africa and the World Economy
Shipping Subsidies and Railway Guarantees
Monopolists and Speculators
Constructors in a foreign land
Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective
Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas II
Strategy and Structure
The Emergence of Oligopoly
Africa and the Victorians
On Importing Andre Gunder Frank into Africa
The European partition of Africa
The imperial factor in South Africa in the nineteenth century
Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere
The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy
The Uganda Company Limited
Productivity and Factor Proportions in Less Developed Countries. The Case of Industrial Firms in the Congo
The Concept of Profit in British Accounting, 1760–1900
The Lion and the Unicorn in Africa
Money and Banking in British Colonial Africa
L'impact des interets coloniaux
A Theory of Mineral Discovery
Business History
Business History and the Business–Man
The Uses of Business History
Consensus or Elite Domination
Rhodes, Rhodesia and the Rand
Economic Imperialism in West Africa
The Lion and the Unicorn in Africa
The Emergence of the Large-Scale Company in Great Britain, 1870-1914
Kenrick's in Hardware
The Political Power of Private Capital
The Business Enterprise in Modern Industrial Society
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,02 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2026 (49) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |