| Abstract: | Two complementary processes shape the argument of this chapter. African authorities lost the race for power and, as they did so, became increasingly divided. Europeans accumulated power, but were not much less divided over how to convert it into authority. The perplexities of rulers, conquered and conquerors alike, stemmed in large part from their shared difficulties in securing the more profitable obedience of those whom they tried to rule. Many Africans resisted conquest, but more Africans evaded the forms of work which were then devised for them. Bibliogr. p. 884-891, notes. |
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