Africa in Global History – serie
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19 produkter
Navigating Socialist Encounters
Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
Av Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1169 kr
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This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on …
Colonial Impotence
Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940)
Inbunden, 2021
1265 kr
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Outsourcing African Labor
Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century
Av Jeffrey Gunn
Inbunden, 2021
1349 kr
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By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity …
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
Ethiopian Nation-Building and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960–1980
Av Marie Huber
Inbunden, 2020
1059 kr
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The history of development has paid only little attention to cultural projects. This book looks at the development politics that shaped the UNESCO World Heritage programme, with a case study of Ethiopian World Heritage sites from the 1960s to the 1980s. In a large-scale conservation and tourism …
Lumumba Generation
African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo
Av Daniel Tödt
Inbunden, 2021
1089 kr
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How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of an African …
Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019
From Social History to Politics from Below Volume 1 | Volume 2
Av Elena Vezzadini, Iris Seri-Hersch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1006 kr
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This book starts from the premise that the study of "exceptionally normal" women and men – as conceived by microhistory – has radical implications for understanding history and politics, and applies this notion to Sudan. Against a historiography dominated by elite actors and international agents, …
Anxieties of White Supremacy
Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
Inbunden, 2023
1526 kr
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Navigating Socialist Encounters
Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
Av Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
346 kr
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This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds …
Colonial Impotence
Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940)
Häftad, 2023
284 kr
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No detailed description available for "Colonial Impotence".
Outsourcing African Labor
Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century
Av Jeffrey Gunn
Häftad, 2023
276 kr
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By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity …
Forged in Genocide
Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890–1925
Inbunden, 2024
1238 kr
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Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904–1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early …
Dividing Dar
Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920
Inbunden, 2025
1152 kr
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How did a diversity of intermediaries shape not only the everyday divisions but also the dynamics and growth of the colonial city? This is the central question of Dividing Dar. Focusing on South Asian elites, Askari soldiers and police, and a minority of European settlers, the book illustrates how …
Space of Transformation
Kigoma-Ujiji, a Global History of a Liminal Town since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2025
983 kr
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Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika …
Beyond Federation
Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975
Av Emma Hunter, Daniel Branch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1077 kr
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In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their …
Winds of History
Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the 19th Century
Häftad, 2024
371 kr
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Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a …
Anxieties of White Supremacy
Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
Av Christoph Marx, Ulrike Kistner
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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In Solidarity
The Elite Capture of Decolonisation in Nigeria, 1937–1963
Av Ngozi Edeagu
Inbunden, 2027
1226 kr
Kommande
In Solidarity rethinks the history of Nigeria’s decolonisation. Moving beyond nationalist leaders, it highlights the struggles of women traders, school children, ex-servicemen, and coal miners whose aspirations were subsumed beneath the politics of anti-colonial nationalism. The book argues that …
Rooted in Exploitation
Oil Palm Development in Twentieth-Century Dahomey/Benin
Inbunden, 2026
1014 kr
Kommande
Why did nearly a century of efforts to develop the oil palm sector in Dahomey/Benin not make its producers wealthy? To answer this question, Rooted in Exploitation traces the history of oil palm development from the late nineteenth century through colonial rule, independence, and the negotiation of …
“Angels of God”?
A History of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania
Inbunden, 2025
1077 kr
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This book, drawing heavily on archival and oral sources, many of which have not been accessible before, discusses major Chinese-funded projects in Tanzania’s health sector. It explores the contexts that gave birth to China’s medical assistance in Tanzania and analyses how the funded projects …
