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  • - A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
    av Paul E. Lovejoy
    534,-

    In this study of salt production and trade, Professor Lovejoy examines the interaction between ecology, technology and social structure as a means of analysing the organisation of the salt industry of the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno in central Sudan.

  • av Bernard Moitt
    1 146,-

    "Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse"--

  • - The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
     
    1 290,-

    Essays, from an African perspective, on the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa.

  • - Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia
    av Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o
    371 - 578,-

    Focusing on the politics of democratization in Africa, this book details the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition, within the context of transition politics.

  • - Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization
    av Daniel (University of Warwick) Branch
    307 - 1 018,-

    This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. Branch explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion.

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    863,-

    This book discusses the minority status of African immigrants in the New World by revisiting the concept of a 'new' African diaspora and its multiple implications for citizenship and immigration policy.

  • av Richard B. Allen
    636 - 1 299,-

    This social and economic history of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the mid-1930s, describes changing relationships between different elements in the society, slave, free and maroon, and East Indian indentured populations. First published in 1999, it brings the Mauritian case to the attention of scholars of slavery and plantation systems.

  • - A Must for the African Union
    av State University of New York, USA) Marah & John K. (College at Brockport
    1 856,-

  • - A History of Slavery in Africa
    av Toronto) Lovejoy & Paul E. (York University
    384,-

    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. The new edition revises statistical material and incorporates recent research.

  • - Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara
    av Judith Scheele & Julien Brachet
    534 - 1 544,-

    Based on long-term research in an area long closed to researchers, this book provides an internal account of trans-border connectivity, armed conflict, labour and gender relations, and aspirations to political autonomy in northern Chad. It sheds light on current Saharan political developments, and adds a new perspective to Saharan studies.

  • - The Centrality of the Margins
    av Paul (University of Edinburgh) Nugent
    534 - 1 337,-

    Whereas border regions are often treated as marginal, Paul Nugent demonstrates through a comparison of two African sub-regions that they are in fact vital in the process of shaping state forms and forging social contracts. Border regions are fundamental to the making of regional and national economies and to patterns of contemporary urbanism.

  • av Vivian Bickford-Smith
    458,-

    Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Vivian Bickford-Smith skilfully interweaves political, economic and social analysis to show that the English merchant class, far from being liberal, were generally as racist as Afrikaner farmers.

  • av Christopher Harrison
    534,-

    This is a major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation. Focusing on French policy towards Islam, it sheds light on a wide range of issues, from the grand strategy of French imperialism to the psychology of individual administrators in isolated outposts of the empire.

  • av Christopher Clapham
    458,-

    This pioneering study was first published in 1988. It examines the effects of revolution on one of Africa's largest states. Christopher Clapham traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century, emphasising the institutionalisation of the revolutionary regime since 1978.

  • - Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900
    av Randall L. Pouwels
    623,-

    In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole.

  • av Patrick Chabal
    458,-

    This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain, France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, have been involved in the process of rethinking African politics. They present here the outline of a new approach, grounded in universal political theory rather than on theories of Third World political development.

  • - The Case of Uganda, 700-1900
    av Rhiannon Stephens
    407,-

    This history of African motherhood over the longue duree demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.

  • av Nigel Worden
    458,-

    This 1985 comprehensive study analyses slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795). Based on archival research in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa, it examines the nature of Cape slavery with reference to the literature on other slave societies.

  • av Finn Fuglestad
    547,-

    This comprehensive history of Niger during the colonial period is a work based on primary research which attempts an overall appraisal of the colonial past. Dr Fuglestad questions the assumption that the colonial conquest constituted a clear break in African history.

  • av Robert H. Bates
    458,-

    This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In answering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis.

  • - Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963
    av Paul Mosley
    458,-

    In this study, Dr Mosley considers the economies of colonial Kenya and Southern Rhodesia and argues at the level of policy, most white producers acknowledged that they could not afford to let 'white mate black in a very few moves': they needed his cheap labour, cattle and maize too much to wish to damage seriously the peasant economy that sustained them.

  • - Class, Capital and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934-1948
    av Dan O'Meara
    458,-

    Volkskapitalisme analyses the development of Afrikaner nationalism from the early thirties to the election victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948. The book sets out to refute the commonly held belief that the nationalist policies of apartheid are simply the product of 'irrational' racial ideology.

  • av W. G. Clarence-Smith
    458,-

    This book examines the history of the colonial conquest of a neglected region of Angola from an alternative perspective. Dr Clarence-Smith has used advances in Marxist theory to develop a model of the early colonial period which differs greatly from the established historiography of `African resistance'.

  • - White Minority in a Black State
    av Margo Russell & Martin Russell
    458,-

    The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen.

  • - The Railwaymen of Sekondi
    av Richard Jeffries
    458,-

    First published in 1978, this study analyses the political history and sociology of one particular group - the railway workers of Ghana's third city, Sekondi-Takoradi, who are renowned for their leading role in the Ghanaian nationalist movement and for their sustained opposition to the elitism and authoritarianism of post-Independence governments.

  • - A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa
    av Robert Ross
    458,-

    This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa by describing in detail the history of one group, the Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad.

  • - Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960-1965
    av Gary Wasserman
    458,-

    The study concludes that instead of being a separating step to remove colonial influence, decolonization in more important respects ensured the continuity of the colonial political economy. The book is of interest to scholars, students and others interested in decolonization, white settles, East African affairs and land reform, as well as the general reader following current events in Africa.

  • - Industrial Man in Africa
    av Margaret Peil
    458,-

    This book surveys the field of industrialisation in Ghana and its effects through such other factors as migration. It provides a valuable comparison both with industrialisation elsewhere and with other aspects of African social life.

  • - A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960-67
    av Robin Luckham
    534,-

    An account of the Nigerian military coups of 1966 in which the author discusses both the events themselves and their sociological background.

  • - Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
    av Nathaniel K. (Lancaster University) Powell
    1 176,-

    The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad's civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982, this study explores France's counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of Francois Tombalbaye and its contribution to the rise to power of Hissene Habre, one of Africa's most notorious dictators.

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