'Shipping and imperialism. The case of British West Africa' in G Jackson & D M Williams (eds), Shipping, Technology and Imperialism. Papers presented to the Third British-Dutch Maritime History Conference

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Deals with the development and organisation of British-owned shipping businesses trading with West Africa from 1852, and formation of Africa Steam Ship Co, to independence from British colonial power in the 1960s, and the much wider economic interests they established to become a dominant force in West Africa