Table of Contents

List of maps and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Terminology; Abbreviations; 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.

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The first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania).