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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
Taschenbuch von Richard Reid
Sprache: Englisch

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Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa.
Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa.
Über den Autor
John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana.

Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction - African Histories: Past, Present, and Future

  • PART ONE: KEY THEMES IN AFRICAN HISTORY

  • 1: James McCann: Ecology and Environment

  • 2: Shane Doyle: Demography and Disease

  • 3: Pier M. Larson: African Slave Trades in Global Perspective

  • 4: Walter Hawthorne: States and Statelessness

  • 5: Richard Waller: Ethnicity and Identity

  • 6: Richard Reid: Warfare and the Military

  • 7: John Parker: The African Diaspora

  • PART TWO: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER

  • 8: Heather J. Sharkey: African Colonial States

  • 9: Richard Roberts: Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa

  • 10: Emily Lynn Osborn: Work and Migration

  • 11: Justin Willis: Chieftaincy

  • 12: Jean Allman: Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization

  • PART THREE: RELIGION AND BELIEF

  • 13: Marie Miran-Guyon and Jean-Louis Triaud: Islam

  • 14: David Maxwell: Christianity

  • 15: Robert M. Baum: Indigenous African Religions

  • 16: Sean Hanretta: New Religious Movements

  • PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

  • 17: Carol Summers: Education and Literacy

  • 18: Barbara M. Cooper: Women and Gender

  • 19: John Parker: Urbanization and Urban Cultures

  • 20: Nancy Rose Hunt: Health and Healing

  • 21: Nicolas Argenti and Deborah Durham: Youth

  • 22: Morten Jerven: Economic Growth

  • PART FIVE: ARTS AND THE MEDIA

  • 23: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir: Visual Cultures

  • 24: Veit Erlmann: Music in Modern African History

  • 25: Stephanie Newell: African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures

  • 26: James R. Brennan: Communications and Media

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198779407
ISBN-10: 0198779402
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Parker, John
Reid, Richard
Redaktion: Reid, Richard
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 244 x 170 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Reid
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,954 kg
Artikel-ID: 108607049
Über den Autor
John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana.

Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction - African Histories: Past, Present, and Future

  • PART ONE: KEY THEMES IN AFRICAN HISTORY

  • 1: James McCann: Ecology and Environment

  • 2: Shane Doyle: Demography and Disease

  • 3: Pier M. Larson: African Slave Trades in Global Perspective

  • 4: Walter Hawthorne: States and Statelessness

  • 5: Richard Waller: Ethnicity and Identity

  • 6: Richard Reid: Warfare and the Military

  • 7: John Parker: The African Diaspora

  • PART TWO: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER

  • 8: Heather J. Sharkey: African Colonial States

  • 9: Richard Roberts: Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa

  • 10: Emily Lynn Osborn: Work and Migration

  • 11: Justin Willis: Chieftaincy

  • 12: Jean Allman: Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization

  • PART THREE: RELIGION AND BELIEF

  • 13: Marie Miran-Guyon and Jean-Louis Triaud: Islam

  • 14: David Maxwell: Christianity

  • 15: Robert M. Baum: Indigenous African Religions

  • 16: Sean Hanretta: New Religious Movements

  • PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

  • 17: Carol Summers: Education and Literacy

  • 18: Barbara M. Cooper: Women and Gender

  • 19: John Parker: Urbanization and Urban Cultures

  • 20: Nancy Rose Hunt: Health and Healing

  • 21: Nicolas Argenti and Deborah Durham: Youth

  • 22: Morten Jerven: Economic Growth

  • PART FIVE: ARTS AND THE MEDIA

  • 23: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir: Visual Cultures

  • 24: Veit Erlmann: Music in Modern African History

  • 25: Stephanie Newell: African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures

  • 26: James R. Brennan: Communications and Media

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198779407
ISBN-10: 0198779402
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Parker, John
Reid, Richard
Redaktion: Reid, Richard
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 244 x 170 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Reid
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,954 kg
Artikel-ID: 108607049
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