Introduction; Part I: Into Africa; 1. History at the Universities: Change without Decay; 2. Economic Imperialism in West Africa: Lagos, 1880-92; 3. Asante and the Historians: Transition and Partition on the Gold Coast; 4. The Lagos Strike of 1897: An Exploration in Nigerian Labour History; 5. Economic Aspects of Political Movements in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, 1918-39; 6. The New Economic History of Africa; 7. Fifty Years of African Economic History; Part II: On to Imperialism and Empire; 8.

The "New International Order" in the Nineteenth Century: Britain's First Development Plan for Africa; 9. The Victorians and Africa: A Reconsideration of the Occupation of Egypt, 1882; 10. Macmillan's Audit of Empire, 1957; 11. Rethinking Decolonisation; Part III: Towards Disorder in the Wider World; 12. Globalisation and Decolonisation; 13. Globalization with and without Empires: From Bali to Labrador; 14. Capitalism, Nationalism and the New American Empire; 15. The "Victory Strategy": Grand Bargain or Grand Illusion?.