Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization
The United Africa Company, 1929-1987
1995
First Published
864
Number of Pages
The United Africa Company, formed in 1929, was the largest single commercial organization in West and Equatorial Africa. This is a comprehensive account of its history, based on unrestricted access to confidential Comapany archives. Not a commissioned history, the book instead 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 the region during this crucial half century.
Author
David K. Fieldhouse
Author · 4 books
David Kenneth Fieldhouse, FBA, is a prominent historian of the British Empire who between 1981 and 1992 held the Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
