The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800, 2nd edition

This second edition is fully updated, with two new chapters focusing on the revolutionary process in southern Africa and on the contemporary themes of economic crisis, structural adjustment, and the realities of democratization.

Bill Freund is professor of economic history at the University of Natal. His many publications include Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines, The African Worker, and Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-1990.

• Africanist History and the History of Africa.
• Material and Cultural Development in Africa Before the Nineteenth Century.
• The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital.
• The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800-1870.
• The Conquest of Africa.
• The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900-1940.
• Culture, Class and Social Change in Colonial Africa, 1900-1940.
• Industrialisation and South African Society, 1900-1940.
• The Decolonisation of Africa, 1940-1960.
• Tropical Africa, 1960-1980: Class, State and the Problem of Development.
• Southern Africa in Crisis.
• The Age of Structural Adjustment.
• Annotated Bibliography.