Download or read book Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa written by Christopher John Gray and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.
Download or read book Colonial Policies in Africa written by Heinrich Albert Wieschhoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book Equatorial Africa written by Joseph Calder Miller and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Tears written by Robert Harms and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
Download or read book Colonialism Health and Illness in French Equatorial Africa 1885 1935 written by Rita Headrick and published by African Studies Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crisis In Africa written by Arthur Gavshon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now j
Download or read book Colonialism in Africa 1870 1960 Volume 5 A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub Saharan Africa written by L. H. Gann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Download or read book Colonial Rule And Regional Imbalance In Central Africa written by Bruce Fetter and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1983-07-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen and Subject written by Meike de Goede and published by Macat Library. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In citizen and subject, Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views of the crisis of postcolonial Africa. Many studies emphasize that the Problems the continent faces are home grown-the consequence of poor government, widespread corruption, and other local factors. Citizen and subject insists that the current crisis the institutional legacy of colonialism. Mamdani explains that reforms after independence have deracialized, but not democratized, the African state. Nor have they abolished the two-pronged structure of the colonial era, characterized by different systems of administration-one traditional and rural, the other urban and modern. Instead, they have simply reproduced them, tainting these institutions with the colonial legacy and making them unfit for purpose. Book jacket.
Download or read book French Colonialism in Tropical Africa 1900 1945 written by Jean Suret-Canale and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twilight of European Colonialism written by Stewart Copinger Easton and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1960 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twilight of European Colonialism (1961) is a comprehensive appraisal of modern colonialism, as well as providing historical background, of the governments of British, French, Belgian and Portuguese colonies. Political events in colonies and former colonies in all parts of the world are discussed. Charting the political development of each colony, the author analyses at each stage the significance of the major advances toward self-government in addition to critically examining and comparing the policies and performances of the European powers involved.
Download or read book Colonial Rule in Africa written by Bruce Fetter and published by . This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decolonization in Africa written by John D. Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships.
Download or read book African Agency and European Colonialism written by Femi James Kolapo and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa's socio-political structures. It reveals the indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book also clarifies the significant impact that African people's choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in structuring their colonial experience and European dominance. Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of colonial power and authority were constantly under construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa's engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students, scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other professionals interested in the social and political history of Africa. Book jacket.
Download or read book Conquest and Resistance to Colonialism in Africa written by Gregory Maddox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on African struggles to maintain their autonomy. Although the history of interaction between African peoples and those from outside that continent is old, for most of Africa colonial domination by European powers was both relatively recent and relatively short phenomenon. In 1970 most Africans lived in independent societies; by 1915 all by two African states had been conquered by Europeans. Resistance to European domination by Africans was continuous, although the level on which is occurred varied. As the articles in this collection show, the costs of conquest to Africans was great. This title will be of interest to students of African history and Imperialism.
Download or read book An Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani s Citizen and Subject written by Meike de Goede and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahmood Mamdani’s 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often still plague, African governments. Analysis is one of the broadest and most fundamental critical thinking skills, and involves understanding the structure and features of arguments. Mamdani’s strong analytical skills form the basis of an original investigation of the problems faced by the independent African governments in the wake of the collapse of the colonial regimes imposed by European powers such has Great Britain and France. It had long been clear that these newly-independent governments faced many problems – corruption, the imposition of anti-democratic rule, and many basic failures of day-to-day governance. They also tended to replicate many of the racially and ethnically prejudiced structures that were part of colonial rule. Mamdani analyses the many arguments about the sources of these problems, drawing out their hidden implications and assumptions in order to clear the way for his own creative new vision of the way to overcome the obstacles to democratization in Africa. A dense and brilliant analysis of the true nature of colonialism’s legacy in Africa, Mamdani’s book remains influential to this day.
Download or read book A Journey to Ashango Land written by Paul B (Paul Belloni) 1 Du Chaillu and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
