Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Terminology
- Abbreviations
- Map I Tanganyika
- 1 Intentions
- 2 Tanganyika in 1800
- 3 The nineteenth century
- 4 The German conquest
- 5 Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890–1914
- 6 The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905–7
- 7 Religious and cultural change before 1914
- 8 Fortunes of war
- 9 The origins of rural capitalism
- 10 The creation of tribes
- 11 The crisis of colonial society, 1929–45
- 12 Townsmen and workers
- 13 The African Association, 1929–48
- 14 The new colonialism
- 15 The new politics, 1945–55
- 16 The nationalist victory, 1955–61
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Terminology
- Abbreviations
- Map I Tanganyika
- 1 Intentions
- 2 Tanganyika in 1800
- 3 The nineteenth century
- 4 The German conquest
- 5 Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890–1914
- 6 The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905–7
- 7 Religious and cultural change before 1914
- 8 Fortunes of war
- 9 The origins of rural capitalism
- 10 The creation of tribes
- 11 The crisis of colonial society, 1929–45
- 12 Townsmen and workers
- 13 The African Association, 1929–48
- 14 The new colonialism
- 15 The new politics, 1945–55
- 16 The nationalist victory, 1955–61
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In a global perspective the First World War was both the culmination of European imperialism and the beginning of its decline. To win the war, colonial powers tightened control over subject peoples and increased demands upon them. To restore their economies and prevent future wars, the victors sought to give their empires defensible frontiers and organise their resources more efficiently. At the same time the demands and opportunities of war stimulated political awareness and organisation amongst subject peoples.
Tanganyika was conquered late in imperial history and its full crisis came with the Second World War, but it experienced shock-waves from the earlier cataclysm. On the one hand, the East African campaign demonstrated African helplessness before European power. On the other, never were Europeans so dependent on Africans for survival. The transfer to British control gave Africans a brief opportunity to reshape the colonial relationship. African soldiers acquired new organisational skills. The collapse of mission work created opportunities for African Christians and Muslims. A new administration offered advancement to men excluded by the old. Amid famine and disease were new economic opportunities.
The war was an ordeal, but also an opportunity. When it ended, Tanganyika was subtly changed. The balance among its constituent elements had shifted and its future was set in a new direction.
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- A Modern History of Tanganyika , pp. 240 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979