Architecture, Empire, and Trade

Architecture, Empire, and Trade

The United Africa Company

Jackson, Iain; Tunstall, Claire; Tenzon, Michele; Harrison, Ewan; Woudstra, Rixt

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

10/2024

464

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9781350411319

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Foreword - Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool)
Introduction

1. The United Africa Company Archive
2. Responder Essay - UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps - Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos)
3. Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company
4. Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos
5. Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local 'Found' Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities - Warebe Brisibe (Rivers State University, Nigeria)

6. Image Collection: Rivers and Coast

7. Shifting Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo
8. Building a 'Forest Factory': Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana
9. Responder Essay: Land - Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool, UK)

10. Image Collection: Land

11. Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation
12. The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building
13. Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments
14. Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions - Kuukuwa Manful (University of Michigan, US)

15. Image Collection: City

Coda

References
Bibliography
Appendices
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Gambia; Ghana; Sierra Leone; Nigeria; Congo; Landownership; Land; West Africa; Capitalism; Transnational; Post-colonial; 20th century; archive; plantations; settlements; modernity; Royal Niger Company; River Benue; River Niger; Lever Brothers; Unilever; Mercantile; Decolonisation; Global South; corporations