Social History of Africa – serie
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27 produkter
Fipa Families
Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960
E-bok, 2006
1169 kr
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Ufipa, a labor reserve for Tanganyika, witnessed minimal colonial development. Instead, evangelization by White Fathers' Catholic missionaries began in the 1870s. By the 1950s, the missionaries had secured varying degrees of political, economic and social authority in the region, witnessed by the …
Law, Language, and Science
The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
Av Diana Jeater
E-bok, 2006
1178 kr
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This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to …
Telling Stories, Making Histories
Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
E-bok, 2007
1178 kr
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Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and …
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement
Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Av Pier Larson
Inbunden, 2000
882 kr
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Running After Pills
Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe
Av Amy Kaler
Inbunden, 2003
874 kr
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Re-creating Eden
Land Use, Environment, and Society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia
Inbunden, 2004
927 kr
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Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings
Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960
Inbunden, 2005
1069 kr
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Culture of Power in Southern Africa
Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination
Inbunden, 2003
786 kr
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Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests
Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania
Av Brad Weiss
Inbunden, 2003
856 kr
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Pygmies Were Our Compass
Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E.
Inbunden, 2003
809 kr
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City of Steel and Fire
A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984
Inbunden, 2002
856 kr
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Law, Language, and Science
The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
Av Diana Jeater
Inbunden, 2006
1069 kr
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Carriers of Culture
Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Inbunden, 2006
1757 kr
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History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
Av Randy Hanzlick, Florence Bernault m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
927 kr
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Girl Cases
Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970
E-bok, 2006
1204 kr
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Beginning in the late 1930s, a crisis in colonial Gusiiland developed over traditional marriage customs. Couples eloped, wives deserted husbands, fathers forced daughters into marriage, and desperate men abducted women as wives. Existing historiography focuses on women who either fled their rural …
Women of Phokeng
Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-83
Av Belinda Bozzoli, Mmantho Nkotsoe
Häftad, 1998
372 kr
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Oral testimony is given central place in this unique telling of South Africa's history.Using oral accounts of their personal histories, this book recounts the lives and experiences of 22 black South African women, all born before 1915, from one small town in the Western Transvaal. This approach …
Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
Av T O Ranger, Ngwabi Bhebe m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
309 kr
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These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are …
Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
Häftad, 1996
309 kr
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These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This work examines people's beliefs, ideas and experiences both during Zimbabwe's liberation war and afterwards. The contributors look at African religion and Christianity and explore the …
Cutting Down Trees
Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990
Av Henrietta L. Moore, Megan Vaughan
Häftad, 1994
372 kr
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Herskovits Prize WinnerWhat are the problems of rural food supply in southern Africa today and how have they arisen historically? In part this book is a reconstruction of an African agricultural system over one hundred years; in part it is an examination of the construction of knowledge about a …
Are We Not Also Men?
The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64
Av T O Ranger
Häftad, 1995
318 kr
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Terence Ranger collected a range of sources, including the archive of Thompson's papers, the National Archives and oral interviews.This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time that his …
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement
Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Häftad, 2000
480 kr
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Brings Madagascar into the history of the African slave trade.This text explores how incorporation into global mercantile networks compelled people of highland Madagascar to reshape their social identity and their cultural practices.North America: Heinemann
Violence and Memory
One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Av Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
372 kr
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The long-view on more recent events in Zimbabwe's history.Violence has powerfully shaped the history of Matabeleland from the 1890s to the 1980s, and silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, excluding it from national memory. This text aims to break the silence andredress the …
Making the Town
Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Ghana
Av John Parker
Häftad, 2001
372 kr
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A social history of a West African urban community during colonialism.The focus is centered on town politics and the ways in which the Ga political action shaped Accra's transition from pre-colonial city-state to colonial port city.North America: Heinemann
Chiefs Know Their Boundaries
Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996
Häftad, 2001
345 kr
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Relates issues of land tenure and entitlement to the history of power in the region.This text explores the changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims on the land in Asante, Ghana, during the colonial and postcolonial era.
Colonial Lessons
Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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Reveals how the African intelligentsia shaped their own lives under colonial rule.This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. It examines strikes by students and parents, struggles over curricula, …
Poison and Medicine
Ethnicity, Power and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966-1986
Häftad, 2002
372 kr
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An historical view of ethnic conflict in Nigeria.A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically charged setting of Kano, northern Nigeria. It shows how the Igbos renegotiated a position for themselves in the new political environment of Kano …
