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Cambridge University Press Belgium and the Congo 1885 1980
Book SynopsisThis book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. It yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present, and explains how the imperial experience influenced Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture.Trade Review'This is an important book that provides the first scholarly study of the impact that the acquisition of the Congo had on Belgium. It is an important contribution to the history of European colonialism, but also to understanding the contemporary history of the Congo.' Martin Conway, University of Oxford'An indispensable - indeed unique - economic, social, and political history of Belgium and the Congo.' Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas, Austin'Guy Vanthemsche's exploration of the influence of the massive colony at the very center of the African continent on the small European nation that inherited it from a king with imperial ambitions is captivating. Vanthemsche, one of Belgium's leading contemporary historians, is perfectly placed to invert the traditional studies of Belgium in the Congo with his meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, subtly probing, compelling investigation of how the Congo shaped the domestic politics, foreign relations, and economic development of Belgium. Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980, rich in nuance, will be crucial reading alongside the studies ranging from the gruesome tales of King Leopold's Congo to the accounts of the politics of decolonization in France and Britain.' Janet Polasky, Presidential Professor of History, University of New Hampshire'Guy Vanthemsche provides an authoritative and detailed account of the history of Belgian linkages with the Congo, colonial and postcolonial. This invaluable and richly documented volume is an indispensable source for understanding both Belgian and Congolese history. Balanced and judicious, the book is also an invaluable guide to the published sources on this subject, which receive exhaustive coverage.' Crawford Young, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison'Having synthesized the political and economic dimensions of imperialism in Belgium, Vanthemsche has written a well-documented and fascinating work which will be a reference point for historiographical research on Congolese-Belgian relations for decades to come.' Ulrich Tiedau, European History Quarterly'Vanthemsche has produced an important study of Belgian colonial rule, which will be a useful source for future studies on this topic. It deserves a wide readership among specialists on the Congo and on European colonialism more generally.' David N. Gibbs, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of Contents1. The origin of the colonial phenomenon in Belgium and its main developments up until 1960; 2. The Congo and Belgium's domestic policy; 3. The Congo and Belgium's external position; 4. The Congo and the Belgian economy; 5. Belgium and the independent Congo.
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Cambridge University Press African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources
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Cambridge University Press Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
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Cambridge University Press African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 2 Essays on Sources and Methods
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Africa
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Africa Volume 7
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Cambridge University Press The Founder of Modern Egypt
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Cambridge University Press Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda 112 African Studies Series Number 112
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Cambridge University Press Black Ppl S African War 18991902 40 African Studies Series Number 40
Book SynopsisThe South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. This is the first history of the war to focus upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increasingly shaped, but not yet transformed, by mining capital. The ways in which the war influenced the lives and livelihoods of different sections of the black population are studied - from chiefs and newspaper editors to peasant farmers and artisans, to farm tenants and industrial workers. Dr Warwick shows that black people were far more than either spectators to, or passive victims of, a white man's quarrel, and presents a thorough revision of accepted views on the war. He reveals the vital roles performed by black people in both the British and Boer armies, and shows how the regular and irregular participation of blacks exercised an influence uTable of ContentsList of maps and tables; Preface; A note on orthography; Introduction; 1. Myth of a white man's war; 2. Mafikeng and beyond; 3. An encircling struggle; 4. The Zulu's war; 5. Allies and neutrals; 6. The war in the Cape; 7. Black workers; 8. Refugees; 9. Aftermath; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Egypt A Social History
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Cambridge University Press Central Africa to 1870 Zambezia Zaire and the South Atlantic
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Cambridge University Press The African Middle Ages 1400 1800
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Cambridge University Press The African Poor A History 58 African Studies Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad 17831816
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Cambridge University Press H C BankoleBright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone 19191958 64 African Studies Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press Contemporary West African States 65 African Studies Series Number 65
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Cambridge University Press Asante in the Nineteenth Century The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order 13 African Studies Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press The Colonial Moment in Africa
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Cambridge University Press Magomero
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Harmony Land Dispute Strategies in Swaziland 69 African Studies Series Number 69
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Cambridge University Press Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
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Cambridge University Press Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples 0085 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 85
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Cambridge University Press Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 18 Sixth Series Royal Historical Society Transactions Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Slow Death for Slavery The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria 18971936 0076 African Studies Series Number 76
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Cambridge University Press A History of African Societies to 1870
Book SynopsisThis detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to about 1870, covers all facets of the continent's history. An up-to-date textbook, it offers an impressive survey of the current literature and reflects trends in recent scholarship. It focusses in particular on 'history seen from below', on changing modes of production, gender relations and on ecology.Trade Review'A Reading of A History of African Societies to 1870 impresses one with the fact that it is written by a 'teacher' of African history, not, merely an academic. Certainly, there are many good scholarly histories of Africa, but few that have been written with the average undergraduate student in mind. In Isichei's pages one can almost hear the questions asked by students over the years, and her careful working out of the answers: current, nuanced, and comprehensible, but not at all simplistic.' Charles W. McLellan, Radford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I. Continental Perspectives: Perimeters: 1. Prelude: Africa and the historians; 2. Out of Africa: the precursors; 3. Environment, language and art c. 10,000–c. 500 BCE; 4. Producing more food c. 10,000–c. 500 BCE 5. Copper and iron c. 600 BCE–c. 1000 CE; 6. Models: Production, Power and Gender; Part II. Regional Histories to the Sixteenth Century: 7. Central Africa; 8. East Africa; 9. Africa south of the Limpopo; 10. Northern Africa in antiquity; 11. Northern Africa from the seventh century CE; 12. The North-East; 13; The Western Sudan; 14. West Africa: from the savanna to the sea; Part III. Regional Historis to c. 1870: 15. Northern Africa; 16. The Western Sudan; 17. The Central Sudan; 18. The Atlantic slave trade; 19. West Africa to 1870; 21. Central Africa; 22. Southern Africa; 23. East and East Central Africa Maps: 1. Human evolution: archaeological sites; 2. African language families; 3. Bantu Languages; 4. Cradles of domestication; 5. Central Africa; 6. Eastern Africa; 7. South Africa; 8. Northern Africa in antiquity; 9. Northern Africa (seventh to twelfth centuries); 10. Egypt and the Near East: Fatimids and Mamluks; 11. The North-East; 12. The Western Sudan (to c. 1600); 13. Lower Guinea; 14. The Western and Central Sudan: the nineteenth century; 15. Southern Africa: the nineteenth century 16. East and Central Africa: the nineteenth century. Diagrams: 1. Human evolution; 2. Long-term climate change; 3. African language families: Afroasiatic; 4. African language families: Nilo-Saharan; 5. African language families: Kordofanian and Niger-Congo.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Egypt
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Cambridge University Press The Eritrean Struggle for Independence Domination Resistance Nationalism 19411993 82 African Studies Series Number 82
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Cambridge University Press Redefining the Egyptian Nation 19301945 2 Cambridge Middle East Studies Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier 17601803 97 African Studies Series Number 97
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Cambridge University Press Rommels Desert War Waging World War II in North Africa 19411943 Cambridge Military Histories
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Cambridge University Press Africa and the World Trade Organization
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Cambridge University Press Kings Commoners and Concessionaires The Evolution and Dissolution of the NineteenthCentury Swazi State 31 African Studies Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press A South African Kingdom The Pursuit of Security in NineteenthCentury Lesotho 78 African Studies Series Number 78
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Cambridge University Press The Kanyok of Zaire
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Cambridge University Press Redefining the Egyptian Nation 19301945 2 Cambridge Middle East Studies Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Contemporary Algeria 18301987
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Cambridge University Press Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
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Cambridge University Press Plantation Slave Trinidad 17831816 A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad The Precolonial State of Bundu 75 African Studies Series Number 75
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Cambridge University Press ReImagining Rwanda Conflict Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century 102 African Studies Series Number 102
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Cambridge University Press Abraham Esaus War A Black South African War in the Cape 18991902 68 African Studies Series Number 68
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Cambridge University Press Imperial Sudan
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Cambridge University Press Making Algeria French
Book SynopsisThis study is based on research in the former Bône municipal archives, generally barred to researchers since 1962. Prochaska concentrates on the formative decades of settler society and culture between 1870 and 1920. He describes in turn the economic, social, political, and cultural history of Bône through the First World War.Table of ContentsTables; Maps and figures; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Theoretical foundations: settler colonialism and colonial urbanism; Part I. From Precolonial Annaba to Colonial Bône, 1830–1870: 2. Annaba on the eve of the French conquest; 3. Bône during the first decades of French rule, 1830–1870; Part II. Bône: The Formation of a Settler Colonial City, 1870–1920: 4. The urban economy and the regional setting; 5. The people of Bône; 6. Patronage, corruption, and the 'Boss' of Bône: Jérome Bertagna; 7. The creation of a colonial culture; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Sources and bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press H. C. BankoleBright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone 19191958
Book SynopsisThis substantial and thoroughly documented book is a political biography of an important figure in Sierra Leone. It is also a comment on two of the major themes of the country's history - the relations between the Colony (Krio society) and the Protectorate (the earlier inhabitants of the territory) and, more importantly, the position of the imperial regime vis-á-vis its colonial subjects.Trade Review"Written by Akintola J.G. Wyse, one of Sierra Leone's most prolific historians..." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Growing up: background to his family and early life; 2. Background to politics in the twentieth century; 3. Politics in earnest: the setting up of the N.C.B.W.A., 1919–1924; 4. In the Legislative Council, 1924–1939: the drama of confrontation; 5. In the Legislative Council, 1924–1939: constructive opposition; 6. At the crossroads: the flickering flames of Congress and the challenge of W.A.Y.L., 1936–1939; 7. In the political wilderness: the turbulent years, 1939–1951; 8. Second innings in Parliament: the twilight years, 1951–1957; 9. Bankole-Bright and colonial politics: an assessment; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Muslim Societies in African History 2 New Approaches to African History Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce The Senegal River Valley 17001860 77 African Studies Series Number 77
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Cambridge University Press France and Islam in West Africa 18601960
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Cambridge University Press Land in Dar Fur
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