Download or read book German Colonialism Revisited written by Nina Berman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Africa written by Anthony Appiah and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Africa presents the most up-to-date and thorough reference on this region of ever-growing importance in world history, politics, and culture. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on African history and culture from 2005's acclaimed five-volume Africana - nearly two-thirds of these 1,300 entries have been updated, revised, and expanded to reflect the most recent scholarship. Organized in an A-Z format, the articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa. There are articles on contemporary nations of sub-Saharan Africa, ethnic groups from various regions of Africa, and European colonial powers. Other examples include Congo River, Ivory trade, Mau Mau rebellion, and Pastoralism. The Encyclopedia of Africa is sure to become the essential resource in the field.

Download or read book Bamum written by Christraud Geary and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artists working for the royal court of Bamum, in Cameroon, created elaborate bead-covered thrones and stools, wooden sculptures, masks in human and animal form, architectural carvings, and fine objects in bronze, ivory, and clay. This book focuses on the history, iconography, and meaning of these royal arts and looks at Western collectors who were fascinated by King Ibrahim Njoya (ruled 1886/7 to 1931) and the splendor of the royal court. Visual and written sources--including testimony by King Njoya and his courtiers, and extensive archival records--cast light on the strategies of a monarch who allowed visitors to acquire these arts to enhance the kingdom's reputation in distant Europe. The history of Bamum arts thus offers unique perspectives on African creativity and ingenuity, and European ways of collecting.

Download or read book African Material Culture written by Mary Jo Arnoldi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.

Download or read book German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies written by Itohan Osayimwese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africa's cultural heritage in European museums have brought this period of African and German history back into the spotlight. German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies brings much-needed context to these debates, exploring perspectives on the architecture, art, urbanism, and visual culture of German colonialism in Africa, and its legacies in postcolonial and present-day Namibia, Cameroon, and Germany. The first in-depth exploration of the designed and visual aspects of German colonialism, the book presents a series of essays combining formal analyses of painting, photography, performance art, buildings, and space with the discourse analysis approach associated with postcolonial theory. Covering the entire period from the build-up to colonialism in the early-19th century to the present, subjects covered range from late-19th-century German colonial paintings of African landscapes and people to German land appropriation through planning and architectural mechanisms, and from indigenous African responses to colonial architecture, to explorations of the legacies of German colonialism by contemporary artists today. This powerful and revealing collection of essays will encourage new research on this under-explored topic, and demonstrate the importance of historical research to the present, especially with regards to ongoing debates about the presence of material legacies of colonialism in Western culture, museum collections, and immigration policies.

Download or read book Unicode Blocks Herong s Notes written by Herong Yang and published by HerongYang.com. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of notes on Unicode code point blocks written by the author while he was learning Unicode himself. Topics include Introduction of Unicode character sets and code blocks; List of Unicode code blocks and their character samples. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.32) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Unicode-Blocks.

Download or read book The Cultural Legacy of German Colonial Rule written by Klaus Mühlhahn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores social, economic, political, and cultural practices generated by African, Asian, and Oceanic individuals and groups within the context and aftermath of German colonialism. The volume contributes to current debates on transnational and intercultural processes while highlighting the ways in which the colonial period is embedded in larger processes of globalization.

Download or read book The Cameroons written by Albert Frederick Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Party Chairmen and Committees written by Andrew Goldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the history of the national committee chairmanships of the two major political parties in the United States, emphasizing the national conventions and presidential campaigns - where national factions often reveal themselves. Candidate and ideolological factionalism, as the evidence of this volume demonstrates, has been the principal engine of convention action. Factional conflicts have had consequences not just for the political parties but for the party system itself. The institutional history of the two national committees and their chairmanships reveals a previously unrecorded aspect of United States national party development.

Download or read book African Crossroads written by Ian Fowler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a wide variety of social, historical, political and economic studies. The result is a volume with a broad historical scope yet one that also focuses on major contemporary theoretical issues such as the meaning and construction of ethnic identities and the anthropological study of historical processes. For more information on this title and related publications, go to http: //lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html

Download or read book Acquiring Cultures written by Bénédicte Savoy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =– and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century – a growing number of exotic artefacts entered European markets. The markets for such objects thrived, while a collecting culture and museums emerged. This book provides insights into the methods and places of exchange, networks, prices, expertise, and valuation concepts, as well as the transfer and transport of these artefacts over 300 years and across four continents. The contributions are from international experts, including Ting Chang, Nélia Dias, Noëmie Etienne, Jonathan Fine, Philip Jones, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Léa Saint-Raymond, and Masako Yamamoto.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Peoples written by The Diagram Group, and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a vast continent, home to many millions of people. Its history stretches back millennia and encompasses some of the most ancient civilizations in the world. Modern Africa boasts a rich cultural heritage, the legacy of many diverse influences from all around the world, reflecting the central role African plays in world history. Encyclopedia of African Peoples provides extensive information about Africa's cultures, history, geography, economics, and politics; it provides an invaluable overview of the whole continent, region by region, ethnic group by ethnic group, nation by nation, personality by personality. Sections include: *Africa Today * The Peoples of Africa * Culture and History * The Nations of Africa * Biographies Past to Present * Glossary * Index.

Download or read book The Kaiser and the Colonies written by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other crowned heads of Europe. Rather than an expression of Wilhelm II's personal rule, Germany's global empire and its Weltpolitik had their origins in the political and economic changes undergone by the nation as German commerce and industry strained to globalise alongside other European nations. More central to Germany's imperial processes than an emperor who reigned but did not rule were the numerous monarchs around the world with whom the German Empire came into contact. In Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, kings, sultans and other paramount leaders both resisted and accommodated Germany's ambitions as they charted their own course through the era of European imperialism. The result was often violent suppression, but also complex diplomatic negotiation, attempts at manipulation, and even mutual cooperation. In vivid detail drawn from archival holdings, The Kaiser and the Colonies examines the surprisingly muted role played by Wilhelm II in the German Empire and contrasts it to the lively, varied, and innovative responses to German imperialism from monarchs around the world.

Download or read book Portraiture and Photography in Africa written by John Peffer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.

Download or read book Unicode Tutorials Herong s Tutorial Examples written by Herong Yang and published by HerongYang.com. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Unicode tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Unicode himself. Topics include Character Sets and Encodings; GB2312/GB18030 Character Set and Encodings; JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings; Unicode Character Set; Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP); Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF); Surrogates and Supplementary Characters; Unicode Character Blocks; Python Support of Unicode Characters; Java Character Set and Encoding; Java Encoding Maps, Counts and Conversion. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.32) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Unicode.

Download or read book World Views written by Jon Hegglund and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Views examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.

Download or read book Writing peace written by Cattelain, Eric and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the word for 'peace' in Thai or in Arabic? In Hausa or in Maori? And how is it writ ten? The answers to these questions confront us to the specific languages we have learned or will be able to learn - and which help build our own identit y - just as much as to those languages we have no access to