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Chance and Circumstance
Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
E-bok, 2009
284 kr
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham …
Palm Oil and Protest
An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800-1980
Av Susan M. Martin, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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The Ngwa region lies in the heart of the Nigerian palm belt. Palm oil is one of the oldest foodstuffs of the region and has also been an export crop, produced mainly by women, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. This 1988 book describes the rise and fall of the oil palm export …
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia
The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991
Av John Young, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
557 kr
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In the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of opposition forces launched insurrections. But only one movement, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) triumphed, liberating Tigray in 1989, and in an …
Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius
Av Richard B. Allen, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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In this wide-ranging social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the colony in the mid-1930s, Richard Allen brings out the importance of domestic capital formation, particularly in the sugar industry. He …
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa
Av Robert H. Bates, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
586 kr
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This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural …
A History of African Christianity 1950-1975
Av Adrian Hastings, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
804 kr
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The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged …
Political Domination in Africa
Av Patrick Chabal, Patrick Chabal m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
586 kr
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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, …
Slavery and African Life
Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades
Av Patrick Manning, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
435 kr
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This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of …
Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Av Christopher Clapham, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
586 kr
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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 …
West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce
The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860
Av James F. Searing, David Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the …
Kingship and State
The Buganda Dynasty
Av Christopher Wrigley, David Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1962 kr
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The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich …
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires
The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
Av Philip Bonner, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
754 kr
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This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to …
A South African Kingdom
The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho
Av Elizabeth A. Eldredge, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
594 kr
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The Basotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. In this 2003 book, Elizabeth Eldredge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the Basotho …
The Kanyok of Zaire
An Institutional and Ideological History to 1895
Av John C. Yoder, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development …
Salt of the Desert Sun
A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
Av Paul E. Lovejoy, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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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. By concentrating on the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town
Av Vivian Bickford-Smith, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster the development of a sophisticated and …
Re-Imagining Rwanda
Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century
Av Johan Pottier, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was …
H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919-1958
Av Akintola Wyse, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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This substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone. It is also a comment on two of the major themes of the country's history - the relations between the Colony (Krio society) and the Protectorate (the earlier inhabitants of the territory) …
Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa
Av B. G. Martin, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
918 kr
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The mystical and hierarchically organized brotherhoods, the sufi, were first formed in the twelfth century in Iraq, Iran, central Asia, and North Africa. These brotherhoods drew their members from all kinship groups and all classes and professions. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the …
West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce
The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860
Av James F. Searing, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
653 kr
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West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the …
France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960
Av Christopher Harrison, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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This book is a major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the largest colonial state in Africa, the French West African Federation. By focusing on the specific subject of the development of French policy towards Islam, it sheds light on a wide range of issues, from the …
Honour in African History
Av John Iliffe, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
586 kr
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This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men …
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Av Boubacar Barry, David Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1887 kr
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Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this …
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Av Angelique Haugerud, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
653 kr
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Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to …
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Av Martin A. Klein, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
737 kr
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Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart …
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Av Boubacar Barry, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
838 kr
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Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this …
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995
Av Thomas J. Bassett, David Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1689 kr
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The literature of Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis and gloom. But Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa. One of the few long-running success stories in African …
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
Av T. C. McCaskie, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on …
Wa and the Wala
Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana
Av Ivor Wilks, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
820 kr
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In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Its creation involved on the one hand warrior groups of Mande, Dagomba and Mamprusi origins, and on the other hand scholars from the centres of Muslim learning on the Middle Niger. Ivor Wilks traces the …
Kingship and State
The Buganda Dynasty
Av Christopher Wrigley, David Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
754 kr
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The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich …
