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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Transafrican Journal of History
Author: Transafrican Journal of History
Author: African Military History
Author: John LamphearPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351960377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
This collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in African historiographical discourse, as well as others which, while lesser known, provide remarkable insight into the unique nature of African military history. Selections were made so as to produce an introduction to the understudied field of pre-colonial African military history that will be useful to specialists and non-specialists alike. The volume also contains an introduction which presents one of the first significant reviews of pre-colonial African military historiography ever attempted.
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
Author: Christopher EhretPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520314751
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
L'Expansion bantoue
Author: Larry M. HymanPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9782852970694
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The Roots of Ethnicity
Author: Ronald R. AtkinsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512800120
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In The Roots of Ethnicity, Ronald R. Atkinson argues that although colonial rule and its aftermath have played a major role in shaping the particular manifestations of ethnicity in Africa, many sociohistorical developments crucial to current expressions of ethnicity can be traced to a past long before the colonial period. Atkinson develops his argument through an exhaustive examination of the origins of the collective identity of the Acholi of present-day northern Uganda. His study makes clear that by the time of European conquest the essential foundations and the crucial parameters for the evolution of Acholi society and ethnic consciousness had long been established. In presenting his argument for the need to extend the existing scholarship on ethnicity in Africa beyond its twentieth-century focus, Atkinson provides what is perhaps the most detailed reconstruction and analysis yet available of the pre-1800 evolution of an African sociopolitical order. Beyond these contributions to the study of African history, The Roots of Ethnicity provides an extended case study in and a convincing argument for the use of oral sources in the reconstruction and interpretation of the African past. It will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and African studies, as well as to all those interested in ethnicity and the politics of identity.
Communications in Africa, 1880–1939 (set)
Author: David SunderlandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351112252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Struggle for Kenya
Author: Robert M. MaxonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book details the evolution of British policy toward Kenya from 1912 to 1923.
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya
Author: Robert M. MaxonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838633502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Gusii people of Kenya, Africa, were the last major Kenyan ethnic group to be conquered by the British. This is an account of their experience under colonial control and a portrayal of their strong and steadfast resistance. Illustrated with maps and tables.
Deep Roots
Author: Edda L. Fields-BlackPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253002966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.