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  • Frobenius-Institut  (4)
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  • München UB
  • 1995-1999  (4)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (4)
  • Dordrecht : Springer
  • Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen  (4)
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  • Frobenius-Institut  (4)
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  • 1
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    Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600 - c. 1960 (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56664-9 , 978-0-521-56664-3 , 0-521-56228-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-56228-7 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 252 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 96
    Keywords: Zentralafrika Kamerun ; Duala ; Handel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Kolonie, französisch ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products. Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from earlier riverain trade to develop cocoa plantations and provide their children with exceptional levels of European education. At the same time they came into early conflict with both German and French regimes and played a leading - if ultimately unsuccessful - role in anti-colonial politics. In tracing these changing economic and political roles, this book also examines the growing consciousness of the Duala as an ethnic group and uses their history to shed light on the history of 'middleman' communities in surrounding regions of West and Central Africa. The authors draw upon a wide range of written and oral sources, including indigenous accounts of the past conflicting with their own findings but illuminate local conceptions of social hierarchy and their relationship to spiritual beliefs. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Preface -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on the coast in the formative period, c. 1600-1830 -- 3. Hegemony without control: the Duala, Europeans and the Littoral hinterland in the era of legitimate/free trade, c. 1830-1884 -- 4. Mythic transformation and historical continuity: Duala middlemen and German colonial rule, 1884-1914 -- 5. Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under French mandate rule, 1914-1941 -- 5. Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of decolonization, c. 1941-c. 1960 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-249
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  • 2
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    From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0-521-48127-9 , 0-521-48127-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 278 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 86
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Westafrika ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Handel ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Historiographie ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "A conference organized by the Centre of Commenwealth Studies of the University of Stirling in April 1993 [..] Revised versions of the papers from that conference are presented in the present volume" (Seite 5-6)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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  • 3
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    Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0-521-47179-6 , 978-0-521-47179-4 , 0-521-10347-9 , 978-0-521-10347-3
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 83
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Korruption ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Hegemonie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Informal markets and the shadow state: some theoretical issues -- 2. Colonial rule and the foundations of the shadow state -- 3. Elite hegemony and the threat of political and economic reform -- 4. Reining in the informal market: the early Stevens' years, 1968-1973 -- 5. An exchange of services: state power and the diamond business -- 6. The shadow state and international commerce -- 7. Foreign firms, economic 'reform' and shadow state power -- 8. The changing character of African sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography --Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-222
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  • 4
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    The _culture of politics in Kenya (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47059-5 , 978-0-521-47059-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 84
    Keywords: Kenia Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people in one rural locale during the past century. This sliding scale of analysis allows the author to experiment theoretically with a number of themes informed by contemporary analytical tensions among post-modernist 'chaos', historical contingency, and structural regularities. The result is a study which combines many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.
    Description / Table of Contents: IList of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction; 1. Staging politics in Kenya -- 2. Shattered silences: political culture and "democracy" in the early 1990s -- 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990 -- 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century -- 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s -- 6. Conclusions: the showpiece of an hour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-257
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