Myles Osborne is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008, and is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2014). He also recently edited The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya (Markus Wiener, 2015), and has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of African History.Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Interwar Britain; The Women's War: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria, 1929, with Misty Bastian and Marc Matera; Gender and History; and Queen Victoria: Gender, Empire, and the Gender of Empire.

"Inspired by a course co-taught by a historian of Africa and a historian of the British Empire, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980, is a model teaching text. Its thematic and chronological chapters, its engaging narrative, and the careful attention to context and explanation will make this book a favorite in undergraduate courses. In addition, it breaks important ground as an "African" contribution to studies on the "new imperialism," which have brought colonizer and colonized into the same analytical framework in instructive ways, exploring how influences move in both directions and also across colonies or empires. In Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, the authors vividly demonstrate how between 1660 and 1980 "people, ideas, conversations, and debates have traveled from Africa to Britain and from Britain to Africa."Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, USA"In this comprehensive account of Britain’s engagement with Africa, Kent and Osborne make three hundred years of history vivid with lively prose and a keen sense of the exemplary detail. Their vigorous narrative touches on familiar themes in imperial history without sacrificing attention to the role of African women and men in shaping the parameters of European domination. Continental in scope, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 will challenge students of modern imperialism to think about the wide range of African responses to the phenomenon of western hegemony and to appreciate the importance of the long duree view for a proper diagnosis of global contemporary issues."Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, USA

• List of figures. List of maps. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Slave Trade, Abolition, and Beyond, 1600-1840s. 2. Missionaries, Merchants, and Explorers, 1840s-1880s. 3. The Scramble for Africa, 1870s-1900. 4.Violence, Negotiation, and the Establishment of British Administration, 1890s-1914. 5. Africans in the White Man’s Wars, 1914-1945. 6. The Road to Independence, 1945-1960. 7. Independence and Beyond, 1960s – 1970s. 8. The Legacy of Colonialism. Index

Myles Osborne is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008, and is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2014). He also recently edited The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya (Markus Wiener, 2015), and has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of African History.Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Interwar Britain; The Women's War: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria, 1929, with Misty Bastian and Marc Matera; Gender and History; and Queen Victoria: Gender, Empire, and the Gender of Empire.

"Inspired by a course co-taught by a historian of Africa and a historian of the British Empire, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980, is a model teaching text. Its thematic and chronological chapters, its engaging narrative, and the careful attention to context and explanation will make this book a favorite in undergraduate courses. In addition, it breaks important ground as an "African" contribution to studies on the "new imperialism," which have brought colonizer and colonized into the same analytical framework in instructive ways, exploring how influences move in both directions and also across colonies or empires. In Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, the authors vividly demonstrate how between 1660 and 1980 "people, ideas, conversations, and debates have traveled from Africa to Britain and from Britain to Africa."Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, USA"In this comprehensive account of Britain’s engagement with Africa, Kent and Osborne make three hundred years of history vivid with lively prose and a keen sense of the exemplary detail. Their vigorous narrative touches on familiar themes in imperial history without sacrificing attention to the role of African women and men in shaping the parameters of European domination. Continental in scope, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 will challenge students of modern imperialism to think about the wide range of African responses to the phenomenon of western hegemony and to appreciate the importance of the long duree view for a proper diagnosis of global contemporary issues."Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, USA

• List of figures. List of maps. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Slave Trade, Abolition, and Beyond, 1600-1840s. 2. Missionaries, Merchants, and Explorers, 1840s-1880s. 3. The Scramble for Africa, 1870s-1900. 4.Violence, Negotiation, and the Establishment of British Administration, 1890s-1914. 5. Africans in the White Man’s Wars, 1914-1945. 6. The Road to Independence, 1945-1960. 7. Independence and Beyond, 1960s – 1970s. 8. The Legacy of Colonialism. Index

Myles Osborne is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008, and is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2014). He also recently edited The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya (Markus Wiener, 2015), and has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of African History.Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at University of Colorado-Boulder. Her publications include Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Interwar Britain; The Women's War: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria, 1929, with Misty Bastian and Marc Matera; Gender and History; and Queen Victoria: Gender, Empire, and the Gender of Empire.

"Inspired by a course co-taught by a historian of Africa and a historian of the British Empire, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980, is a model teaching text. Its thematic and chronological chapters, its engaging narrative, and the careful attention to context and explanation will make this book a favorite in undergraduate courses. In addition, it breaks important ground as an "African" contribution to studies on the "new imperialism," which have brought colonizer and colonized into the same analytical framework in instructive ways, exploring how influences move in both directions and also across colonies or empires. In Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, the authors vividly demonstrate how between 1660 and 1980 "people, ideas, conversations, and debates have traveled from Africa to Britain and from Britain to Africa."Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, USA"In this comprehensive account of Britain’s engagement with Africa, Kent and Osborne make three hundred years of history vivid with lively prose and a keen sense of the exemplary detail. Their vigorous narrative touches on familiar themes in imperial history without sacrificing attention to the role of African women and men in shaping the parameters of European domination. Continental in scope, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 will challenge students of modern imperialism to think about the wide range of African responses to the phenomenon of western hegemony and to appreciate the importance of the long duree view for a proper diagnosis of global contemporary issues."Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, USA

• List of figures. List of maps. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Slave Trade, Abolition, and Beyond, 1600-1840s. 2. Missionaries, Merchants, and Explorers, 1840s-1880s. 3. The Scramble for Africa, 1870s-1900. 4.Violence, Negotiation, and the Establishment of British Administration, 1890s-1914. 5. Africans in the White Man’s Wars, 1914-1945. 6. The Road to Independence, 1945-1960. 7. Independence and Beyond, 1960s – 1970s. 8. The Legacy of Colonialism. Index