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Africa and the Expansion of International Society - Surrendering the Savannah (Paperback)
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Africa and the Expansion of International Society - Surrendering the Savannah (Paperback)
Series: New International Relations
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This book explores the West-Central African role in, and experience
during, the expansion of international society. Building upon
theoretical contributions from the English School of international
relations, historical sociology and sociology, it departs from
Euro-centric assumptions by analysing how West-Central Africa and
West-Central Africans were integral to the ways in which Europe and
Africa came together from the fifteenth century through to the
twentieth. Initially, diverse scholarship concerned with the
expansion of international society is examined, revealing how the
process has often been understood as one dictated by Europeans.
From there a new approach is developed, one which is better able to
examine the expansion as an interactive process between
individuals, and which puts the African experience at the heart of
study. The empirical research that follows this draws upon primary
sources to introduce a number of historically significant and
ground-breaking cases into international relations, including; the
international relations of West-Central Africa before the European
arrival, the emergence and growth of the trans-Atlantic slave
trade, the attempts to 'civilize' Africa, and the 'scramble' to
colonize Africa. This book argues that the expansion of
international society was driven by individual interaction, and was
shaped by both Africans and Europeans. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of international relations,
international relations theory, history, African politics, the
English school and constructivism. Author John Anthony Pella
introduces his book African and the Expansion of International
Society: Surrendering the Savannah
http://www.routledge.com/politics/articles/featured_author_john_anthony_pella/
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