Caption
Colonial Economic Development to the mid-1930s
Summary
This map shows the economic development of Africa from 1880 to 1939, indicating railways and sites of key resources and exports (listed as cocoa, coffee, cotton, groundnuts, palm products, rubber, sesame, copper, diamonds, gold, manganese, phosphates, radium, and tin).
Source
Oxford Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 1999. General Editor Patrick K. O’Brien. (p. 207)
Copyright
Map copyright © Philip’s, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
Source: Philip’s Atlas of World History
Used under license from Octopus Publishing Group.
Series
This map is one in a series of maps selected from the Oxford Atlas of World History.
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