Africa And The Africans In The Nineteenth Century A Turbulent History
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| Author | : Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2015-02-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317477502 |
Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers.It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, the sultanate of Zanzibar extended its reach via coastal and interior trade routes. In the north, Egypt began to modernize while Algeria was colonized. In the south, a series of forced migrations accelerated, spurred by the progression of white settlement.Through much of the century African societies assimilated and adapted to the changes generated by these diverse forces. In the end, the West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence. Yet only by taking into account the rich complexity of this tumultuous past can we fully understand modern Africa from the colonial period to independence and the difficulties of today.
| Author | : Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : 9780765616975 |
Presents the history of Africa in the nineteenth century from the perspective of Africans. This book shows how West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence.
| Author | : Roger S. Levine |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2010-12-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0300168594 |
Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.
| Author | : John Parker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2007-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
| Author | : David Birmingham |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0190271302 |
David Birmingham begins this short history of Angola in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the 19th century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, white political convicts and black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbour city of Luanda which grew to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labour was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan labourers to produce sugar-cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the 20th century this wealth was supplemented by Congo copper, by gem-quality diamonds, and by off-shore oil. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.
| Author | : Emmanuel Akyeampong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107041155 |
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
| Author | : John Iliffe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2017-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107198321 |
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 654 |
| Release | : 2024-01-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429795467 |
This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a collection of themes rather than a history per se; it provides important perspectives on the emergence of warfare as a global historical experience from the ancient past to the present day. Drawing together numerous experts, it tells a broader, more inclusive story of the global, human experience with wars and warfare. The 35 cahtpers are organised in eight thematic parts: Part I: Origins of Warfare Part II: Polities and Armed Forces in the Pre-Modern Era Part III: Steppe Nomads of Eurasia Part IV: Naval Warfare and Piracy in the Pre-Industrial World Part V: The Impact of Gunpowder Part VI: Transition from Industrial to Total War Part VII: Wars of Decolonisation and Cold War Part VIII: Postmodern/New Wars These Parts offer an overview of the global experience of warfare to help readers understand how the wars and the militaries we see today have been shaped by historical developments across the globe. This handbook will be of great interest to students of military history, naval history, strategic studies and world history in general.
| Author | : Ira M. Lapidus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 795 |
| Release | : 2012-10-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139851128 |
First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, showing how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavour.
| Author | : John P. McKay |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 1198 |
| Release | : 2011-10-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0312666918 |
A History of World Societies introduces students to the global past through social history and the stories and voices of the people who lived it. The book’s regional and comparative approach helps students understand the connections of global history while providing a manageable organization. With global connections and comparisons, documents, features and activities that teach historical analysis.
