International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032208909 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

George Forji Amin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.