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| Title: | Southern and central Africa, 1886-1910 |
| Author: | Marks, Shula |
| Book title: | The Cambridge History of Africa: vol. 6: From 1870 to 1905 |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Pages: | 422-492 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | political economy history 1850-1899 1900-1949 |
| Abstract: | Industrialisation, which followed the discovery of vast seams of underground gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, followed by the renewed assertion of British supremacy in the interior of southern Africa, greatly accelerated the forces making for change over the entire region and set the pace for much of the 20th century. By 1910, British ambitions of creating a southern African confederation seemed well on the way to fulfillment while, to the north, British imperial frontiers stopped short only at Katanga and Tanganyika. Railroad arteries connected the coast with mining centres up to Elisabethville. Boundaries had been drawn and it was accepted by the colonial rulers that the Zambezi was to be the boundary between the 'white south' and the 'tropical dependencies' of east and central Africa, although British Central Africa, the British sphere of influence north of the Zambezi (1889-1897), uneasily straddled the divide. Bibliogr. essay p. 791-798, bibliogr. p. 854-867, notes. |
