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    Kingship and political practice in colonial India (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-55247-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published 1996, this digitally printed version 2008
    Series Statement: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 51
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Tamil Nadu ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialismus ; König ; Königtum ; Politik ; Institution ; Sozialer Wandel ; Führer, politischer ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Ramanathapuram 〈Stadt, Indien〉 ; Sivaganga 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: In this 1996 cultural history which considers the transformation of south Indian institutions under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the two former 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivaganga which came under colonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates how rivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, and the disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributed to the development of nationalism and identity amongst the people of southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religious symbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century were reformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonial context. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduism to politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continue to inform popular expectation of political leadership today.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Honour, status and state formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maravar country; 2. Cosmological fragmentation in the public sphere; 3. Domain formation in mid-nineteenth-century Ramnad; 4. Human and divine palaces in the fragmentation of monarchical cosmology; 5. Ritual performances, the ruling person and the public; 6. Raja Baskara Setupati and the emergence of a new political style; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203 - 215
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    Transforming Mozambique : the politics of privatization, 1975 - 2000 (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-05268-8 , 978-0-521-05268-9 , 978-0-521-82011-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: This difgitally printed version, paperback re-issue
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 104
    Keywords: Mosambik Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik ; Unabhängigkeit ; Staat ; Modernisierung ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. This 2002 study of Mozambique's shift from a command to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters and corporate advertisements, to reveal that the state is a central actor in the reform process, despite the claims of neo-liberals and their critics. Alongside the state, social forces - from World Bank officials to rural smallholders - have also accelerated, thwarted or shaped change in Mozambique. M. Anne Pitcher offers an intriguing analysis of the dynamic interaction between previous and emerging agents, ideas and institutions, to explain the erosion of socialism and the politics of privatization in a developing country. She demonstrates that Mozambique's political economy is a heterogenous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Glossary -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 - The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence -- 2 - Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique -- 3 - State sector erosion and the turn to the market -- 4 - A privatizing state or a statist privatization? -- 5 - Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing -- 6 - Capital and countryside after structural adjustment -- 7 - The end of Marx and the beginning of the market? Rhetorical efforts to legitimate transformative preservation -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-286
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    Worship and conflict under colonial rule : a South Indian case (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-05358-7 , 0-521-05358-7
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Digitally printed version. First published 1981
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian Studies 27
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Politik ; Regierung ; Konflikt ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie
    Abstract: Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of institutional change in South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality, Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia. These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of scholars.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1. The South Indian temple: cultural model and historical problem; 2. Kings, sects, and temples: South Indian Sri Vaisnavism, 1350-1700; 3. British rule and temple politics, 1700-1826; 4. From bureaucracy to judiciary, 1826-1878; 5. Litigation and the politics of sectarian control, 1878-1925; 6. Rethinking the present: some contextual implications; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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    Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISSN: 978-0-521-11466-0 , 978-0-521-83950-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 376 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: Digitally printed version 2009
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kirgisien ; Tadschikistan ; Usbekistan ; Russland ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus ; Kolonialismus ; Klan ; Kommunismus ; Demokratisierung ; Institution, politische ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Selbstverwaltung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Islam und Politik ; Elite ; Nationalismus ; Akaev, Askar [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to political development and transition in Central Asia -- Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia : a framework for understanding politics in clan-based societies -- Colonialism to Stalinism: the dynamic between clans and the state -- The informal politics of Central Asia: from Brezhnev through Gorbachev -- Transition from above or below? (1990-1991) -- Central Asia's transition (1991-1995) -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part I -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part II -- Positive and negative political trajectories in clan-based societies -- Conclusions.
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    Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-02761-6978-0-521-02761-8 , 0-521-81823-0 /Hb. , 978-0-521-81823-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 293 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: This digitally printed first paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 105
    Keywords: Zimbabwe-Reich Politik ; Gewalt ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Symbolik
    Abstract: Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology (1889-1980) -- List of abbreviations -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The peace settlement -- 3. The assembly phase -- 4. Military integration -- 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- Appendix: the ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997 -- Notes -- References -- List of pseudonyms used in the text -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-283
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    Religious minorities in Iran (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-77073-6 , 0-521-77073-4 , 978-0-521-02974-2 , 0-521-02974-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: paperback version
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies 13
    Keywords: Iran Religion ; Minorität ; Toleranz ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Geschichte ; Religionsgeschichte
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    Honour in African history (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-54685-0 , 978-0-521-54685-0 , 0-521-83785-5 /Hb. , 978-0-521-83785-9 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 404 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 107
    Keywords: Afrika Ehre ; Geschichte ; Ashanti ; Beti ; Yoruba ; Wertvorstellung, kulturelle ; Christentum ; Islam ; Sklaverei ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Kulturgeschichte
    Abstract: This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these idesas is essential to an understandin gog part and present African behaviour. Before Euroapean conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour , others admired the civic virtues of the partiriarchal householde, and women honoured on anther for industry, endurance, and devation to their families. These caluies both conglicted and blende with Islamic and Christain teachings. Colonial conqiest fragmented heroi cultures, bur inherited ideas of hnour found new expression in reginetal loyalty, respectability, professionalism, workin-class masculinity, the changing gender relationsships of the colonial order, and the nationalis movements that overthrew the old order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, anmd motivate the defance of dignity in the face od AIDS.
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps page -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Comparative History of Honour -- Part One: Hero and Householder -- 2 Men on Horseback -- 3 Honour and Islam -- 4 Christian Ethiopia -- 5 Honour, Rank, and Warfare Among the Yoruba -- 6 Honour and the State in West and Central Africa -- 7 Honour Without the State -- 8 The Honour of the Slave -- 9 Praise and Slander in Southern Africa -- 10 Ekitiibwa and Martyrdom -- Part Two: Fragmentation and Mutation -- 11 The Deaths of Heroes -- 12 Honour in Defeat -- 13 The Honour of the Mercenary -- 14 Respectability -- 15 Honour and Gender -- 16 Urbanisation and Masculinity -- 17 Honour, Race, and Nation -- 18 Political Honour -- 19 To Live in Dignity -- 20 Concluding Questions -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 371-392
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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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    Traditional industry in the economy of colonial India (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-65012-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 252 S.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 5
    Keywords: Indien Kolonialismus ; Handwerk ; Industrie ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte
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    Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59760-9 , 978-0-521-59760-9 , 0-521-59226-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59226-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 358 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 92
    Uniform Title: La _Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegambien ; Senegal ; Guinea Bissau ; Mauretanien ; Mali ; Guinea ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Handel ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this book explores the changing dynamics of regional and Atlantic trade, clashes between traditional African and emergent Muslim authorities, the colonial system and the slave trade, and current obstacles to the integration of the region's modern states. Professor Barry argues cogently for the integrity of the Senegambian region as a historical subject, and he forges a coherent narrative from the dismemberment and unification which characterised Senegambia's development from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This newly-translated study is a vital tool in our understanding of West African history. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- I - Senegambia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century: a haven for incoming populations, a station for migrants on the move -- 1 - Senegambia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: dependence on the Sudan and the Sahara -- 2 - Social dynamics in Senegambia -- 3 - The Atlantic trading system and the reformation of Senegambian states from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- 4 - The partition of the Senegambian coast in the seventeenth century -- II - Senegambia in the eighteenth century: the slave trade, ceddo regimes and Muslim revolutions -- 5 - The slave trade in the eighteenth century -- 6 - The strengthening of ceddo regimes in the eighteenth century -- 7 - Muslim revolutions in the eighteenth century -- 8 - The impact of the slave trade: economic regression and social strife -- III - Senegambia in the first half of the nineteenth century: legitimate trade and sovereignty disputes -- 9 - The crisis of the trans-Atlantic trading system and the triumph of legitimate trade in the first half of the nineteenth century -- 10 - Popular rebellions and political and social crises in Futa Jallon -- 11 - Futa Jallon expansion into the Southern Rivers region -- 12 - The colony of Senegal and political and social crises in northern Senegambia -- 13 - Defeat of the holy warriors in northern Senegambia -- IV - Senegambia in the second half of the nineteenth century: colonial conquest and resistance movements -- 14 - Colonial imperialism and European rivalries in Senegambia -- 15 - Last-ditch resistance movements of legitimist rulers in northern Senegambia -- 16 - The conquest of the Southern Rivers region -- 17 - The balancing act of the Almamis of Timbo in their attempts to cope with centrifugal forces -- 18 - Bokar Biro and the conquest of Futa Jallon -- 19 - Mass resistance movements among the Joola and the Konyagi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 334-349
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    Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59678-5 , 978-0-521-59678-7 , 0-521-59324-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59324-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 354 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 94
    Keywords: Westafrika Westafrika, A.O.F. ; Kolonie, französisch ; Senegal ; Guinea ; Mali ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Abolition ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior, while in areas near the coast, hesitant actions were taken against slave-raiding, trading and use. After 1900, the French withdrew state support of slavery, and as many as a million slaves left their masters. A second exodus occurred after World War I, when soldiers of slave origin returned home. The renegotiation of relationships between those who remained and their masters carries the story into the contemporary world. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Slavery in the Western Sudan -- 2 Abolition and retreat. Senegal 1848-1876 -- 3 Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution -- 4 Senegal after Brière -- 5 Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard -- 6 Senegal in the 1890s -- 7 The end of the conquest -- 8 The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery -- 9 With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea -- 10 The Banamba Exodus -- 11 French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy -- 12 Looking for the tracks. How they did it -- 13 After the War: renegotiating social relations -- 14 A question of honor -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 317-346
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    Kingship and state : the Buganda dynasty (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47370-5 , 978-0-521-47370-5
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 293 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 88
    Keywords: Uganda Buganda ; Ganda ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Orale Tradition ; König
    Abstract: The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on language -- List of abbreviations -- 1 - Preamble -- 2 - The story and its making -- 3 - Introduction to myth -- 4 - Introduction to Buganda -- 5 - The remoter past -- 6 - Genesis -- 7 - The cycle of the kings -- 8 - Fragments of history -- 9 - Foreign affairs -- 10 - The making of the state -- 11 - Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-287
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    Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56251-1 , 978-0-521-56251-5 , 0-521-56600-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-56600-1 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 677 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 89
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Lohnarbeit ; Gewerkschaft ; Dekolonisation ; Kolonialpolitik ; Sozialgeschichte ; Recht
    Abstract: This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables and figure -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map of French and British colonial Africa -- 1 - Introduction -- Part I - The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform -- 2 - The labor question unposed -- 3 - Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940 -- 4 - Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: posing the labor question -- Part II - Imperial fantasies and colonial crises -- 5 - Imperial plans -- 6 - Crises -- Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state -- Part III - The imagining of a working class -- 7 - The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail -- 8 - Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa -- 9 - Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question -- Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state -- Part IV - Devolving power and abdicating responsibility -- 10 - The burden of declining empire -- 11 - Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s -- 12 - Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s -- Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization -- Conclusion -- 13. The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 627-655
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    State and society in pre-colonial Asante (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41009-6 , 978-0-521-41009-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 492 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 79
    Keywords: Ghana Historischer Staat Afrika ; Königreich ; Ashanti ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, vorkoloniale ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Fest ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Historiographie
    Abstract: Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T.C. MaCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in Asante in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. Is is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of the Asante past -- 2. State and society in Asante history -- 3. Society and state in Asante history -- 4. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed -- 5. The Asante past considered -- Appendix I: Bowdich's The First Day of the Yam Custom -- Appendix II: A glossary of some Asante Twi terms -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- Guide to sources and materials consulted -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 442-473
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