Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization The United Africa Company 1929-1987

The United Africa Company, formed in 1929, was the largest single commercial organization in West and Equatorial Africa. This is a comprehensive account of its history, based on unrestricted access to confidential Comapany archives. Not a commissioned history, the book instead uses the UAC as a focal point for detailed study of how the role of foreign merchant capital changed in response to economic and political developments in the region during this crucial half century.Fieldhouse, D. K. is the author of 'Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization The United Africa Company 1929-1987' with ISBN 9780198226253 and ISBN 019822625X.