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Themes in West Africa's History
Häftad, 2006
368 kr
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There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.The …
El Dorado in West Africa
The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism
Häftad, 1999
375 kr
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The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth—including the Gold Coast of West Africa.El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern …
Willing Migrants
Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848–1960
Häftad, 1997
368 kr
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Eighty-five percent of Black African migrants to France come from a single ethnic group in a single region of West Africa. The Soninke have the oldest tradition of labor migration within Africa and were also probably the first itinerant traders of West Africa; an important proportion continue to be …
Paths of Accommodation
Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920
Häftad, 2000
386 kr
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Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation, David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the Federation of French West Africa in order to …
Between the Sea and the Lagoon
An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana C. 1850 to Recent Times
Häftad, 2002
635 kr
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This study offers a "social interpretation of environmental process" for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. As a fishing …
West African Challenge to Empire
Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War
Inbunden, 2002
932 kr
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West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement …
West African Challenge to Empire
Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War
Häftad, 2002
416 kr
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West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement …
Lineages of State Fragility
Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau
Inbunden, 2003
921 kr
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In Guinea-Bissau, as elsewhere in Africa, there is a disjuncture between the central state and rural civil society. It is this significant and overlooked aspect of Guinea-Bissau's political evolution—the continuing ability of civil society to evade and thwart state power—that is at the heart of …
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
Av Sylviane A. Diouf, Sylviane A. Diouf
Inbunden, 2003
941 kr
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While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an …
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
Av Sylviane A. Diouf, Sylviane A. Diouf
Häftad, 2003
368 kr
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While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an …
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
Inbunden, 2004
941 kr
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A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" …
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
Häftad, 2004
401 kr
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A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" …
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958
Inbunden, 2007
990 kr
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In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote "No." Orchestrating the "No" vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement …
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958
Häftad, 2007
412 kr
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In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote "No." Orchestrating the "No" vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement …
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Häftad, 2012
464 kr
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Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, …
West African Challenge to Empire
Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War
E-bok, 2022
660 kr
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West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement …
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
E-bok, 2003
589 kr
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While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an …
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
E-bok, 2004
697 kr
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A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" …
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958
E-bok, 2007
646 kr
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In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote "No." Orchestrating the "No" vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement …
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
E-bok, 2012
720 kr
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Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, …
Ouidah
The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727–1892
Av Robin Law
E-bok, 2005
471 kr
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Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was …
Themes in West Africa's History
E-bok, 2006
624 kr
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There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.The …
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
Av Sylviane A. Diouf, Sylviane A. Diouf
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and …
'Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan'
Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City
Av Ruth Watson
Häftad, 2003
344 kr
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Audrey Richards Prize WinnerThis book is a study of chieftaincy and political culture in Ibadan, the most populous city in what was Britain's largest West African colony, Nigeria. Examining the period between 1829 and 1939, it shows how and why the processesthrough which Ibadan was made into a …
Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier
The Lie of the Borderlands Since 1914
Av Paul Nugent
Häftad, 2002
371 kr
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The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands.The current border between Ghana and Togo is usually regarded as a classically arbitrary European construct, resisted by Ewe irredentism. Paul Nugent challenges this conventional wisdom, contending that whatever the origins of partition, …
Ouidah
The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892
Av Robin Law
Häftad, 2004
367 kr
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Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal …
Ghanaian Popular Fiction
'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction.Stephanie Newell's book reveals the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production in Ghana. Gender relations are a dominant theme in the stories which explore and …
El Dorado in West Africa
The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
Häftad, 1999
452 kr
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Reveals the impact of European capitalism on an African society.Gold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of Ghana. This text examines the period of transition from traditional mining systems to mechanized, capitalized mining companies in the Akan area of the Gold Coast. …
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951-1960
Häftad, 2000
344 kr
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Charts the governments frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long campaigns by many southern chiefs to resist being marginalized.A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows how chiefly resistance to their destruction forced …
Between the Sea and the Lagoon
An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c.1850 to Recent Times
Häftad, 2002
311 kr
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This study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana.The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes called the quintessential sea fishermen of West Africa, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. Since the mid-17th century they …
