International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa - Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

List of contents

1. The Third World and Nature of World Order


2. From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa's Incorporation into the World Order


3. People as Property: Atlantic Slave Trade, International Law and the Making of the New World


4. Industrial Capitalism, Concepts of Improvement, and the Civilizing Mission Metaphor in Africa


5. The Scramble for Africa: Non-State Actors and Acquisitions by Cession Treaties


6. Public Law Arrangements: The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884-85 and the Partition of Africa


7. General Concluding Remarks

About the author

George Forji Amin is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, University of Manchester and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC), UK.

Summary

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

Product details

• Authors: George Forji Amin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032208930
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220893-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Studies in African Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Colonialism & imperialism, Systems of law, Social discrimination & inequality, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, African History, Slavery & abolition of slavery, International institutions, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies