TY - BOOK AU - Rodney,Walter TI - How Europe underdeveloped Africa SN - 9781906387945 AV - HC800 .R63 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Capetown Town PB - Pambazuka Press, an imprint of Fahamu KW - Economic conditions KW - Africa. KW - Colonial influence KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Europe KW - Africa N1 - Chapter One. Some Questions on Development. 1.1 What is Development -- 1.2 What is Underdevelopment? --- Chapter Two. How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century -- 2.1 General Over-View -- 2.2 Concrete Examples --- Chapter Three. Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development - the Pre-Colonial Period -- 3.1 How Europe Became the Dominant Section of a World-Wide Trade System -- 3.2 Africa's contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe --- Chapter Four. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - to 1885 -- 4.1 The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment -- 4.2 Technological Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch -- 4.3 Continuing Politico-Military Developments in Africa - 1500 to 1885 -- Chapter Five. Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe - the Colonial Period -- 5.1 Expatriation of African Surplus Under Colonialism -- 5.2 The Strengthening of Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism -- Chapter Six. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa -- 6.1 The Supposed Benefits of Colonialism to Africa -- 6.2 Negative Character of the Social, Political and Economic Consequences -- 6.3 Education for Underdevelopment -- 6.4 Development by Contradiction ER -