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  • Gellner, Ernest
  • Iliffe, John
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (31)
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781139024723
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 591 Seiten)
    Edition: Cambridge histories online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 2
    DDC: 306.3/62
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    Keywords: Slavery History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Antike
    Abstract: Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume - the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery - covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    ISBN: 9780521840699
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 705 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; volume 4: AD 1804 - AD 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 4
    DDC: 306.3620936
    Keywords: Slavery History To 1500 ; Slave trade History To 1500 ; Mediterranean Region History To 476 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mittelmeerraum ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
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    ISBN: 9781139046176
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 678 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 4: AD 1804-AD 2016
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 4: AD 1804-AD 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: volume 4
    DDC: 306.3/62
    Keywords: Slavery History ; Slavery ; History
    Abstract: Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed include the sources of slaves, the slave trade, the social and economic functioning of slave societies, the responses of slaves to enslavement, efforts to abolish slavery continuing to the present day, the flow of contract labor and other forms of labor control in the aftermath of abolition, and the various forms of coerced labor that emerged in the twentieth century under totalitarian regimes and colonialism
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    ISBN: 9781139046176
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ([xviii], 705 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als he Cambridge world history of slavery
    DDC: 306.3/62
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    ISBN: 9780511975400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 762 p.)
    Edition: Cambridge histories online
    Uniform Title: Cambridge histories online
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3
    DDC: 306.3620903
    Keywords: Slave trade History ; Slavery History To 1500 ; Slave trade History To 1500 ; Slavery History ; Mediterranean Region History To 476 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mittelmeerraum ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1400-1850
    Abstract: Volume 3 of 'The Cambridge World History of Slavery' is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labour in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti
    Note: Title from home page (viewed on Oct. 28, 2011) , Access restricted to subscribing institutions , Includes bibliographical references , "Cambridge histories online , Series Editors' Introduction ; Dependence, Servility, and Coerced Labor in Time and Space , Slavery in Africa and Asia Minor ; Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period , Slavery in Islamic Africa, 1400-1800 , Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420-1820 , Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in West Central Africa , White Servitude , Slavery in Asia ; Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420-1804 , Slavery in Early Modern China , Slavery among the Indigenous Americans ; Slavery in Indigenous North America , Indigenous Slavery in South America, 1492-1820 , Slavery and Serfdom in Eastern Europe ; Russian Slavery and Serfdom, 1450-1804 , Manorialism and Rural Subjection in East Central Europe, 1500-1800 , Slavery in the Americas ; Slavery in the Atlantic Islands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World , Slavery and Politics in Colonial Portuguese America: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries , Slavery in the British Caribbean , Slavery in the North American Mainland Colonies , Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635-1804 , Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Minor Atlantic Powers , Cultural and Demographic Patterns in the Americas ; Demography and Family Structures , The Concept of Creolization , Black Women in the Early Americas , Legal Structures, Economics, and the Movement of Coerced Peoples in the Atlantic World ; Involuntary Migration in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 , Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420-1807 , European Forced Labor in the Early Modern Era , Transatlantic Slavery and Economic Development in the Atlantic World: West Africa, 1450-1850 , Slavery and Resistance ; Slave Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804 , Runaways and Quilombolas in the Americas , Series Editors' Introduction ; Dependence, Servility, and Coerced Labor in Time and Space , Slavery in Africa and Asia Minor ; Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period , Slavery in Islamic Africa, 1400-1800 , Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420-1820 , Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in West Central Africa , White Servitude , Slavery in Asia ; Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420-1804 , Slavery in Early Modern China , Slavery among the Indigenous Americans ; Slavery in Indigenous North America , Indigenous Slavery in South America, 1492-1820 , Slavery and Serfdom in Eastern Europe ; Russian Slavery and Serfdom, 1450-1804 , Manorialism and Rural Subjection in East Central Europe, 1500-1800 , Slavery in the Americas ; Slavery in the Atlantic Islands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World , Slavery and Politics in Colonial Portuguese America: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries , Slavery in the British Caribbean , Slavery in the North American Mainland Colonies , Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635-1804 , Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Minor Atlantic Powers , Cultural and Demographic Patterns in the Americas ; Demography and Family Structures , The Concept of Creolization , Black Women in the Early Americas , Legal Structures, Economics, and the Movement of Coerced Peoples in the Atlantic World ; Involuntary Migration in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 , Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420-1807 , European Forced Labor in the Early Modern Era , Transatlantic Slavery and Economic Development in the Atlantic World: West Africa, 1450-1850 , Slavery and Resistance ; Slave Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804 , Runaways and Quilombolas in the Americas
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Weltgeschichte ; Sklaverei ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 9780511975400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 762 Seiten)
    DDC: 306.3/62
    Abstract: Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The authors, well-known authorities in their respective fields, place slavery in the foreground of the collection but also examine other types of coerced labor. Essays are organized both nationally and thematically and cover the major empires, coerced migration, slave resistance, gender, demography, law and the economic significance of coerced labor. Non-scholars will also find this volume accessible.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511512124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3/62/097
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / America / History ; Slavery / Economic aspects / America / History ; Wirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; Amerika ; Colonies / America / History ; Amerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Amerika ; Wirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of slavery. Perspectives are brought on the transition from slavery and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the work of prominent scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the study of slavery in the Americas
    Note: White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas , The Dutch and the slave Americas , Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective , African slavery in the production of subsistence crops: the case of São Paulo in the nineteenth century , The transition from slavery to freedom through manumission: a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe , Prices of African slaves newly arrived in the Americas, 1673-1865: new evidence on long-run trends and regional differentials , Amercian slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective , The relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States: a stochastic production frontier approach , Wealth accumulation in Virginia and in the century before the Civil War , The poor: slaves in early America , The north-south wage gap before and after the civil war
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511605390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 342 pages)
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521769587 , 9780511604386 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 354 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan ProQuest Online-Ressource ISBN 9780511604386
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Human Capital and Institutions brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of instit...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    ISBN: 9780521382021
    Language: English
    Pages: 400
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Transition to modernity
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Gellner, Ernest ; Postmodernism Social aspects ; Social change History ; Civilization, Modern 20th century ; Gellner, Ernest ; Social change ; History ; Civilization, Modern ; 20th century ; Postmodernism ; Social aspects
    Abstract: This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition
    Abstract: World languages and human dispersals : a minimalist view / Colin Renfrew -- Nomads and oases in Central Asia / A.M. Khazanov -- Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies / E.A. Wrigley -- On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history / Karl R. Popper -- Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- The emergence of modern European nationalism / Michael Mann -- Sovereign individuals / Ronald Dore -- Science, politics, enchantment / Perry Anderson -- Deconstructing post-modernism : Gellner and Crocodile Dundee / Joseph Agassi -- A methodology without presuppositions? / John Watkins -- Gellner's positivism / I.C. Jarvie -- Left versus Right in French political ideology / Louis Dumont -- Property, justice and common good after socialism / John Dunn -- Social contract, democracy and freedom / Gerard Radnitzky -- Thoughts on liberalisation / Jose Merquior -- Peace, peace at last? / John A. Hall
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511187919
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
    DDC: 306.3620973
    Abstract: This book contains perspectives from prominent historians of slavery in the Americas.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511584121
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 387 Seiten)
    Edition: Transferred to digital printing
    Series Statement: African studies 58
    Series Statement: African studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iliffe, John, 1939 - The African poor
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iliffe, John The African poor
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iliffe, John The African poor
    DDC: 305.562096
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    Keywords: Poor History ; Africa ; Afrika südlich der Sahara Sozioökonomische Entwicklung ; Armut ; Geschichte ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziale Schicht ; Grundbedürfnisse ; Hunger/Hungersnot ; Lebensbedingungen ; Gesellschaftliche Prozesse ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Soziale Gruppe Ethnische Bevölkerungsgruppe/Volksgruppe ; Soziale Diskriminierung ; Kolonialmacht ; Christliche Missionare ; Ethnopolitik ; Sozialhilfe ; Krankheit ; Eigentum/Besitz ; Wirtschaftskonjunktur ; Beschäftigung ; Lohnentwicklung ; Urbanisierung ; Internationale Migration ; Kriminalität ; Prostitution ; Afrika Armut ; Geschichte ; Kolonialzeit ; Agrarsoziologie ; Islam ; Armenhilfe ; Südafrikanische Republik ; Nigeria ; Afrika ; Armut ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The comparative history of the poor -- Christian Ethiopia -- The Islamic tradition -- Poverty and power -- Poverty and pastoralism -- Yoruba and Igbo -- Early European initiatives -- Poverty in South Africa, 1886-1948 -- Rural poverty in colonial Africa -- Urban poverty in tropical Africa -- The care of the poor in colonial Africa -- Leprosy -- The growth of poverty in independent Africa -- The transformation of poverty in southern Africa
    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.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521274079 , 0521221609
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 268 Seiten
    Edition: transf. to digital printing
    Series Statement: Cambridge paperback library
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 32
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology
    DDC: 909.097671
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    Keywords: Islam ; Gesellschaft
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511583667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 353 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/62/097
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1900 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Amerika
    Abstract: Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World. Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, David Eltis provides a fresh interpretation of this difficult historical problem.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511151873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: Ernest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521274079 , 0521221609
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 268 Seiten
    Edition: [5.] repr.
    Series Statement: Cambridge paperback library
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 32
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology
    DDC: 909.097671
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    Keywords: Islam ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Kultur
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    ISBN: 9780511628092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 383 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Gellner, Ernest ; Postmodernism Social aspects ; Social change History ; Civilization, Modern 20th century ; Gellner, Ernest ; Social change ; History ; Civilization, Modern ; 20th century ; Postmodernism ; Social aspects
    Abstract: This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition
    Abstract: World languages and human dispersals : a minimalist view / Colin Renfrew -- Nomads and oases in Central Asia / A.M. Khazanov -- Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies / E.A. Wrigley -- On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history / Karl R. Popper -- Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- The emergence of modern European nationalism / Michael Mann -- Sovereign individuals / Ronald Dore -- Science, politics, enchantment / Perry Anderson -- Deconstructing post-modernism : Gellner and Crocodile Dundee / Joseph Agassi -- A methodology without presuppositions? / John Watkins -- Gellner's positivism / I.C. Jarvie -- Left versus Right in French political ideology / Louis Dumont -- Property, justice and common good after socialism / John Dunn -- Social contract, democracy and freedom / Gerard Radnitzky -- Thoughts on liberalisation / Jose Merquior -- Peace, peace at last? / John A. Hall
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511628092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 383 pages)
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Sozialphilosophie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politische Philosophie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.
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    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521274079
    Language: English
    Pages: XD, 268 Seiten
    Edition: 4. Auflage
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 32
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology
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    Keywords: Islam ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Kultur
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    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521344158 , 0521348773
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 387 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African studies series 58
    Series Statement: Cambridge paperback library
    Series Statement: African studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Iliffe, John, 1939 - The African poor
    DDC: 305.5'69'096
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    Keywords: Poor History ; Africa ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Armut ; Geschichte ; Grundbedürfnis ; Hunger ; Hungersnot ; Lebensbedingungen ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Armut ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Armut
    Note: Includes bibliography and index
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511759635
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 325.3/43/096782
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1905-1912 ; Geschichte ; Tanzania / History / 1890-1918 ; Tanganjika ; Deutsch-Ostafrika ; Hochschulschrift ; Deutsch-Ostafrika ; Geschichte 1905-1912 ; Tanganjika
    Abstract: The history of Tanganyika from the Maji Maji rebellion of 1905 (the greatest African rebellion against early European rule) to the last years of German administration. It examines a colonial situation in depth, ranging from the processes of change in African societies to the decisions of policy-makers in Berlin. In the aftermath of rebellion an imaginative Governor, Freiherr von rechenberg, initiated a programme of African cash-crop agriculture. This programme was reversed by a settler community which successfully manipulated the German political system. Meanwhile, after their defeat in armed rebellion, Africans sought power through educational and economic advancement. Tanganyika in 1912 was poised for that struggle for control between European settler and educated African which has been a fundamental theme of the modern history of East and Central Africa. Dr Illiffe's book is one of the few available studies of German colonial administration. He has drawn on a wide range of sources, both in East Africa and Germany. Written in the light of current reappraisal of African history, the book gives valuable insight into African initiatives during the early years of European rule
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