Download or read book A History of East and Central Africa to the Late Nineteenth Century written by Basil Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical study of social change and cultural change in Africa South of Sahara, with particular reference to East Africa and Central Africa - refers to the period prior to the 20th century, and covers geographical aspects, political aspects, tribal peoples, demographic aspects and cultural factors, leadership, tradition, migrations, religion, languages, family and social structures, the role of European countries, etc. Bibliography pp. 325 to 327 and maps.
Download or read book Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa written by Edward A. Alpers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment." Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses on a vast and little known region that includes southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Malawi, with extension north along the Swahili coast and west as far as the Lunda state of the Mwata Kazembe. He examines both the competition between traders and their internal impact on the various societies of East Central Africa. Alpers' main concern is to demonstrate that the historical roots of underdevelopment in the area are to be found 'in the system of international trade which was initiated by Arabs in the fifteenth century, seized and extended by the Portuguese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by a complex mixture of Indian, Arab and Western capitalisms in the nineteenth century'. Thus this readable and original book places East African trading systems within the larger Western Indian Ocean system and in the world capitalist system. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Download or read book History of East and Central Africa to the Late Nineteenth Century written by Basil Risbridger Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s written by J. F. Ade Ajayi and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the major forces at work in African society at the beginning of the 19th century until the onset of the European scramble for colonial territory in the 1880s. This study also looks at Africa's changing role in the world economy, and the effects of the abolition of the slave trade. The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.
Download or read book Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century A Turbulent History written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers.It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, the sultanate of Zanzibar extended its reach via coastal and interior trade routes. In the north, Egypt began to modernize while Algeria was colonized. In the south, a series of forced migrations accelerated, spurred by the progression of white settlement.Through much of the century African societies assimilated and adapted to the changes generated by these diverse forces. In the end, the West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence. Yet only by taking into account the rich complexity of this tumultuous past can we fully understand modern Africa from the colonial period to independence and the difficulties of today.
Download or read book East and Central Africa to the Late Nineteenth Century written by Basil Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivory Slaves in East Central Africa written by Edward A. Alpers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central Africa to 1870 written by David Birmingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Cambridge History of Africa aims to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of historical development on the African continent and will be valuable to both students and teachers of African history.
Download or read book Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century written by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivory Slaves in East Central Africa written by Edward A. Alpers and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Modern Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Download or read book Africa Since 1800 written by Roland Oliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carriers of Culture written by Stephen Rockel and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much writing about 19th-century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as by more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and campaigning to highlight the ravages of the slave trade, condemned Africa in their writings and propaganda to the periphery, outside universal history. Africa was reduced to a continent of slavery, in which the market, entrepreneurship and free wage labour could not exist. These ideas penetrated scholarly works and still survive in some guises. The consequence is that a variety of initiatives and forms of labour organization associated with the long distance trades in ivory and imported cloth have been overlooked by scholars, while the slave paradigm received widespread attention. Utilizing the conceptual tool of crew culture, Rockel documents a large-scale African migrant labour system. Nyamwezi caravan porters from the interior, as well as coastal Zanzibaris and Waungwana, forged a unique way of life in which market values and experience of wage labour and the caravan safari combined with customary standards and notions of honour derived from innovative reconceptualizations of tradition. The safari experience, commercial change, and interactions with peasant and pastoral communities along the trade routes, all contributed to the emergence of a unique East Africa modernity. This book can be read on a variety of levels It is a journey, a labour history, a story of African initiative and adaptation to modernity, and a contribution to a history of Tanzania and East Africa that gives due attention to intersocietal linkages, and networks. Rockel utilizes a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches derived from neo-Marxist and postcolonial perspectives, as well as Africanist innovations in oral historiography and labour and gender studies. Drawing on such insights, Carriers of Culture develops and expands our understanding of the way workers invent new and unique cultures to make sense of and control the labour process, create support networks including collective leisure activities, maximize and protect economic interests, and manage the labour market. The book is clearly written, and is illustrated with late-19th-century photographs and artwork.
Download or read book Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Joseph C. Anene and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Africa written by Robert M. Maxon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Partition of Africa written by John Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching the historical background to the partition, surveying the events of the partition in the four main regions of Africa and then examining in turn the theories produced to explain the sequence of events.
Download or read book Africa in the Nineteenth Century written by Edgar Sanderson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE ZULU KAFFIRS?THE GREAT 'TREKKING1 OF THE BOERS?THE RISE OF NATAL The Zulus loom large in the history of South Africa. Regarded simply as warriors, they enjoy the distinction of having inflicted on British soldiers one of their few defeats, and of compelling modern troops of the highest courage and training, and armed with the breechloader, to receive their terrific charges, made on foot, and with the spear as their only weapon, in the square formation which, in civilised warfare, has been reserved to meet the assaults of cavalry. Their athletic strength and their valour, only to be tamed by sustained volleys of deadly rifle fire, were never equalled in the experience of British troops against savage foes until the ' Dervishes' of the Sudan displayed their prowess. They are a tribe of the great Bantu family, occupying all central Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The Bantus are of mixed race, descended from ancestors of diverse types, and are broadly distinguished from the Negritos and Hottentots to the south, and the Sudan blacks to the north. It was only at the end of the eighteenth century that the Zulus, previously a small and feeble tribe, rose to importance under a successful warrior named Tshaka (Chaka), a man of great bodily strength and vigorous intellect, ruthless in his treatment of all opponents. He created a strong, well- disciplined force, and gathered around him clans and fragments of clans until he had formed a Zulu nation of regiments armed with a short-handled, long-bladed spear, useful either to cut or to stab, instead of the former light lance or assegai. The discipline was of the sternest character, with death as the sure penalty of disobedience or of shrinking on the day of battle. With this formidable force at command, Cha...
