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  • Frobenius-Institut  (8)
  • Iliffe, John  (6)
  • Gellner, Ernest  (2)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (8)
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  • 1
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    Africans : the history of a continent (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-19832-6 , 978-1-316-64812-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 402 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 137
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The frontiersmen of mankind; 2. The emergence of food-producing communities; 3. The impact of metals; 4. Christianity and Islam; 5. Colonising society in western Africa; 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa; 7. The Atlantic slave trade; 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial invasion; 10. Colonial society and African nationalism; 11. Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994; 12. Independent Africa, 1956-1995; 13. Recovery?
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  • 2
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    Africans : the history of a continent (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-68297-8 , 978-0-521-86438-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 365 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Second edtion First published 2007, reprinted (twice)
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 108
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Abstract: In a vast and all-embracing 2007 study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface to the second edition -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- 10. Colonial change, 1918-50 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- 13. In the time of AIDS -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 329-343
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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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  • 4
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    Africans : the history of a continent (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48235-6 , 978-0-521-48235-6 , 0-521-48422-7 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-48422-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 323 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 85
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Zeitgeschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Metall
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 296-309
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    The _African poor : a history (1987)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34877-3 , 978-0-521-34877-5 , 0-521-34415-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34415-9 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 387 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 58
    Series Statement: Cambridge Paperback Library 58
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Äthiopien ; Nigeria ; Südafrika ; Yoruba ; Igbo ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Armut ; Geschichte ; Soziale Schichtung ; Hunger ; Hungersnot ; Krankheit ; Migration ; Humanitäre Hilfe ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Prostitution ; Kriminalität ; Urbanisation ; Diskriminierung ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1 - The comparative history of the poor -- 2 - Christian Ethiopia -- 3 - The Islamic tradition -- 4 - Poverty and power -- 5 - Poverty and pastoralism -- 6 - Yoruba and Igbo -- 7 - Early European initiatives -- 8 - Poverty in South Africa, 1886-1948 -- 9 - Rural poverty in colonial Africa -- 10 - Urban poverty in tropical Africa -- 11 - The care of the poor in colonial Africa -- 12 - Leprosy -- 13 - The growth of poverty in independent Africa -- 14 - The transformation of poverty in southern Africa -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 356-375
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    Nomads and the outside world (1984)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-23813-7 , 978-0-521-23813-7
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xxviii, 369 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 44
    Uniform Title: Kocevniki i vnesnij mir
    Keywords: Nomade Nomadismus ; Beduine ; Berber ; Tuareg ; Uigure ; Usbeke ; Viehhalter ; Viehhaltung ; Weidewirtschaft ; Steppe ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Nomade-Seßhafter ; Akkulturation ; Transhumanz ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Afrika ; Äthiopen ; Mongolei ; Mongolen ; Russland ; Somalia ; Asien ; China ; Tibet ; Turkmenistan ; Eurasien ; Türkei ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten ; Afghanistan ; Kulturvergleich
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Ernest Gellner -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the phenomenon of nomadism: myths and problems -- 1. Nomadism as a distinct form of food-producing economy -- 2. The origins of pastoral nomadism -- 3. The social preconditions of the relations beween nomads and the outside world -- 4. Modes of nomadic adaptation to the outside world -- 5. Nomads and the state -- By way of a conclusion: the outside world and nomads -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Words in languages other than Russian -- Works in Russian -- Index
    Note: Literatuverzeichnis: Seite 307-355
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    Muslim society (1981)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22160-9 , 978-0-521-22160-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 267 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 32
    Keywords: Arabische Staaten Islam ; Soziologie ; Nordafrika ; Tunesien ; Algerien ; Marokko ; Maghreb ; Recht, islamisches ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of blending with extreme social radicalism. As an agent of political mobilisation, it seems to be overtaking Marxism, arid surpassing all other religions. The present book seeks the roots of this situation in the past. The traditional Muslim society of the arid zone has, in the past, displayed remarkable stability and homogeneity, despite great political fragmentation, and the absence of a centralised religious hierarchy. The book explores the mechanisms which have contributed to this result - a civilisation in which (in the main) weak states co-existed with a strong culture, which had a powerful hold over the populations under its sway. A literate Great Tradition, in the keeping of urban scholars, lived side by side with a more emotive, ecstatic folk tradition, ill tile keeping of holy lineages, religious brotherhoods and freelance saints. One tradition was sustained by the urban trading class and periodically swept the rest of the society in waves of revivalist enthusiasm; the other was based on the multiple functions it performed in rural tribal society and amongst the urban poor. The two traditions were intertwined, yet remained in latent tension which from time to time came to tile surface. The book traces the manner in which the impact of the modern world, acting through colonialism arid industrialisation upset the once stable balance, and helped the erstwhile urban Great Tradition to become the pervasive arid dominant one, culminating in the zealous arid radical Islam which is so prominent now. The argument is both formulated in the abstract and illustrated by a series of case studies and examinations of specific aspects, and critical examinations of rival interpretations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Flux and reflux in the faith of men -- 2. Cohesion and identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim -- 3. Post-traditional forms in Islam: the turf and trade, and votes and peanuts -- 4. Doctor and saint -- 5. Sanctity, puritanism, secularisation and nationalism in North Africa: a case study -- 6. The unknown Apollo of Biskra: the social base of Algerian puritanism -- 7. Trousers in Tunisia -- 8. The sociology of Robert Montagne (1893-1954) -- 9. Patterns of rural rebellion in Morocco during the early years of independence -- 10. Saints and their descendants -- 11. The marabouts in the market place -- 12. Rulers and tribesmen -- Notes -- Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's North African writings -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-251
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    A _modern history of Tanganyika (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22024-6 , 978-0-521-22024-8 , 0-521-29611-0 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-29611-3 /Pbk. , 0-521-29612-9 /Pbk. for sale in Africa , 978-0-521-29612-0 /Pbk. for sale in Africa
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 616 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 25
    Keywords: Tansania Tanganjika ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Arusha ; Dschagga ; Fipa ; Haya ; Kerewe ; Kimbu ; Bena ; Luguru ; Makonde ; Massai ; Meru ; Mwera ; Nyakyusa ; Nyamwezi ; Pare ; Pogoro ; Sandawe ; Shambala ; Sukuma ; Yao (Bantu) ; Maji-Maji ; Kulturwandel ; Arbeiterklasse ; Kapitalismus ; Eisenbahn ; Nyerere, Julius K. [Leben und Werk] ; African Association (Tanzania) ; Rabitah al-Ifriqiyah (Tanzania) 〉 African Association (Tanzania)
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particularl attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitlaism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesise their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Map I - Tanganyika -- 1 - Intentions -- 2 - Tanganyika in 1800 -- 3 - The nineteenth century -- 4 - The German conquest -- 5 - Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890-1914 -- 6 - The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905-7 -- 7 - Religious and cultural change before 1914 -- 8 - Fortunes of war -- 9 - The origins of rural capitalism -- 10 - The creation of tribes -- 11 - The crisis of colonial society, 1929-45 -- 12 - Townsmen and workers -- 13 - The African Association, 1929-48 -- 14 - The new colonialism -- 15 - The new politics, 1945-55 -- 16 - The nationalist victory, 1955-61 -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 577-594
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