ISBN:
0-435-94364-2
,
978-0-435-94364-6
Language:
English
Pages:
iv, 266 Seiten
,
Karten
DDC:
320.1/09676
Keywords:
Ost-Afrika Geschichte
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Staatsentstehung
;
Staatsform
;
Chewa
;
Yao (Bantu)
;
Lugbara
;
Shona
;
Luo
;
Äthiopien
;
Malawi
;
Tagungsbericht
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bibliografie
Description / Table of Contents:
List of maps -- List of contributors -- Introduction, Ahmed Idha Salim -- 1. Precolonial states and European merchant capital in Eastern Africa, Bonaventure Swai -- 2. The Balowoka and the establishment of states west of Lake Malawi, Owen J. M. Kalinga -- 3. Policial change among the Chewa and Yao of the Lake Malawi region, c. 1750-1900, Kings M. Phiri -- 4. The emergence of Bunyoro: the tributary mode of production and the formation of the state, 1400-1900, Edward Steinhart -- 5. "State" formation and language change in westernmost Acholi in the eighteenth century, Ronald R. Atkinson -- 6. The construction of dominance: the stategies of selected Luo groups in Uganda and Kenya, R. S. Herring, D. W. Cohen and B. A. Ogot -- 7. Ideology and state formation: political and communal ideologies among the south-eastern Shona, 1500-1890, J. K. Rennie -- 8. The Lugbara states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, O. J. E. Shiroya -- 9. In search of a state among the Kitutu in the nineteenth century, William R. Ochieng' -- 19. Witu, Swahili history and the historians, J. de Vere Allen -- 11. State formation in south-western Ethiopia , Eike Haberland -- Index
Note:
"This volume brings together eleven papers selected from those read at a conference held in Nakuru in September 1979 on the theme 'State formation in Eastern Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' [...] organized by the Deptartment of History, University of Nairobi, and sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. (Introduction)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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