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  • 1935-1939
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (6)
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    Contemporary West African states (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-36893-6 , 978-0-521-36893-3 , 0-521-36366-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-36366-2 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 227 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 65
    Keywords: Westafrika Politisches System ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Burkina Faso ; Kamerun ; Tschad ; Elfenbeinküste ; Ghana ; Liberia ; Nigeria ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone
    Abstract: The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of sub-national forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction, Donal B. Cruise O'Brien and Richard Rathbone -- 2 - Burkina Faso: between feeble state and total state, the swing continues / René Otayek -- 3 - Cameroon / Jean-François Bayart -- 4 - Chad: the narrow escape of an African state, 1965-1987 / Robert Buijtenhuijs -- 5 - Côte d'Ivoire: analysing the crisis / Yves A. Fauré -- 6 - Ghana: the political economy of personal rule / Richard Jeffries -- 7 - Liberia / Christopher Clapham -- 8 - Nigeria: power for profit - class, corporatism, and factionalism in the military / Shehu Othman -- 9 - Senegal / Christian Coulon and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- 10 - Sierra Leone: state consolidation, fragmentation and decay / Fred M. Hayward -- Conclusion / John Dunn -- Notes -- Index
    Note: "The studies have emerged from a small conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in June 1987." (Preface)
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  • 2
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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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  • 3
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    The _southern marches of imperial Ethiopia : essays in history and social anthropology (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-32237-5 , 978-0-521-32237-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 51
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. The making of an imperial state -- 2. Renegotiating power and authority -- 3. Reorienting kinship and identiy -- 4. Expanding tribute and trade -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: "Revised versions of selected papers originally presented at a workshop of the Cambridge African Studies Centre, in July 1979 and at a conference at Monterey, California, in March 1982" (Preface)Enthält 9 BeiträgeLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 295-298
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    Native lords of Quito in the age of the Incas : the political economy of north-Andean chiefdoms (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-30299-4 , 978-0-521-30299-9
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 274 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 59
    Keywords: Südamerika Anden ; Indianer, Südamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Indianer, Anden ; Inga ; Inka ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politisches System ; Handel, primitiver ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies. Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies. He also contributes to our understanding of expansion, colonization, and the adaptive relationships between indigenous and imposed regimes in a context of precapitalist statecraft.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The problem of the 'paramo Andes'; 2. The llajtakuna; 3. Local and exotic components of llajta economy; 4. Interzonal articulation; 5. The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities; 6. The Incaic impact; 7. Quito in comparative perspective; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-268 , "[D]octoral dissertation [...] now in a revised, updated text with translations of all non-English sources." (Acknowledgements) , Theses, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1978 entitled "Ethnic lords of Quito in the age of the Incas"
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  • 5
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    Salt of the desert sun : a history of salt production and trade in the Central Sudan (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-30182-3 , 978-0-521-30182-4
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 351 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 46
    Keywords: Zentral-Sudan Westafrika ; Bornu (NO-Nigeria) ; Manga ; Tuareg ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Salzhandel ; Salzgewinnung ; Salz ; Geschichte ; Arbeitsteilung, geschlechtsspezifische ; Sokoto, Kalifat ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- List of maps, figures and illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Salt in the history of the central Sudan.The need for salt: an historical overview. The salt industry of the central Sudan. The limits of the central Sudan salt market. The characteristics of the central Sudan salt market -- 2. Consumption of the central Sudan salts. Culinary uses. Medical uses. Tobacco consumption. Industrial uses of salt -- 3. The chemistry and geology of the central Sudan salts. The chemical composition of the salts. The geology of the salt deposits. The desert sites. The sahel sites. The brine springs of the Benue trough. Conclusion -- 4. The technology of production. Kawar and Fachi. Teguidda n'tesemt and the Air Massif. The Borno sahel: manda and kige. Natron production in the Borno sahel: Mangari, Muniyo and Kanem. Salt and natron in the western Dallols. Salt from brine in the Benue trough. Other salts. The low level of technology -- 5. The volume of salt production. Kawar and Fachi. The Borno sahel. The western Dallols, Teguidda n'tesemt, Amadror and Taoudeni. The volume of the Benue brine springs. European salt. Productivity of the salines -- 6. The mobilisation of labour. The seasonal nature of salt production. The migrant workers of Mangari. Migration to Dallol Fogha and Dallol Bosso. Slavery and kige production. Slave labour at the desert sites. Trona production in Foli. Sexual division of labour. Conclusion -- 7. Proprietorship: the rights to salt and natron. Freehold: individual rights to property. Proprietary rights and titles in the Benue Valley. The salt fiefdoms of Borno. Proprietorship of the Dallol salines. Division of salt. Conclusion -- 8. Salt marketing networks. The Tuareg trade. The Lake Chad trade. The Borno trade. Salt depots of the Sokoto Caliphate. The re-export trade in natron. Distribution of the Benue and Dallol salts. Conclusion -- 9. The trade and politics of salt. Desert-side politics before 1800. The decline of Borno. The expansion of Manga industry. Kanem and the salt trade of Lake Chad. The deoendence of Borno on the Sokoto Caliphate. The impact of the caliphate at the Benue and Dallol salines. Conclusion. The hegemony of the Sokoto Caliphate -- 10 The social organisation of trade and production. Ethnicity and the relations of production. From political economy to class analysis. Ethnicity and the salt trade. Ethnic fractions and the Hausa diaspora. The social basis of production in Borno. Slavery and ethnic relations -- 11 Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography. Films -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 318-345
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  • 6
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    The _rising of the Red Shawls : a revolt in Madagascar 1895 - 1899 (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-26287-9 , 978-0-521-26287-3
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 214 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 43
    Keywords: Madagaskar Geschichte, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Mission, christliche ; Kolonie, französisch ; Sklavenhandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Gallieni, Joseph Simon [Leben und Werk] ; Rainandriamampandry [Leben und Werk]
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction-- 1 The decline of Imerina. Old Imerina. Christian Imerina. Changing economic patterns. European intrusion and its effects -- 2 The provinces of Madagascar. The outer circles. The inner circles. The margins of the kingdom -- 3 The fall of Imerina (November 1894 to November 1895). The French invasion. The revival of ancestral religion. Movements outside Imerina -- 4 The rising of the menalamba (December 1895 to October 1896). The approach of Alahamady. The rising in the north. The rising in the south. The keys of the kingdom. -- 5 The war of the sects (November 1896 to November 1897). The creation of a conspiracy. Catholics and Protestants. Attack on the Protestants. Religion, resistance and collaboration -- 6 The spread of resistance (1897 to 1899). The last of the menalamba. Widening the circle. Gallieni in Madagascar -- 7 Conclusion. The nature and causes of the menalamba movement. The legacy of the menalamba. Capitalism and resistance -- Appendix 1 Chronology of events -- Appendix 2 Glossary of Malagasy words -- Appendix 3 Biographies of principal Malagasy figures -- Notes 176-- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 190-208
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