African Military History

African Military History
Author: John Lamphear
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351960377

This collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in African historiographical discourse, as well as others which, while lesser known, provide remarkable insight into the unique nature of African military history. Selections were made so as to produce an introduction to the understudied field of pre-colonial African military history that will be useful to specialists and non-specialists alike. The volume also contains an introduction which presents one of the first significant reviews of pre-colonial African military historiography ever attempted.

A Modern History of Tanganyika

A Modern History of Tanganyika
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1979-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521296113

The first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania).

The Cambridge History of Africa

The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 982
Release: 1975
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521228039

Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.

Land of Tears

Land of Tears
Author: Robert Harms
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1541699661

A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.

Luxury in Global Perspective

Luxury in Global Perspective
Author: Karin Hofmeester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107108322

Machine generated contents note: Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhuner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester

Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and Conflict

Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and Conflict
Author: Thomas Joseph Ndaluka
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3643902115

This book analyzes socio-religious transformation in Tanzania. Some scholars claim that religion has returned to the public domain since the collapse of Tanzanian socialism, and that there is a tension between Muslims and Christians. Based on focus group discussions in Dar es Salaam, author Thomas Joseph Ndaluka acquires insight into Muslim - Christian relations using Critical Discourse Analysis. He analyzes how Muslims and Christians identify and position themselves in relation to each other and the conditions which make them elevate their religious identity over other identities. Ndaluka reveals that some periphreal voices threaten social cohesion, but, in general, Muslims and Christians maintain friendly relations and avoid conflict. He also shows individualization or de-institutionalization as dominant trends in the country. However, educational institutions have remained strong and influence other institutions, such as the family. (Series: Interreligious Studies - Vol. 5)

The Rainbow and the Kings

The Rainbow and the Kings
Author: Thomas Q. Reefe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520334914

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

The Last Blank Spaces

The Last Blank Spaces
Author: Dane Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674074971

The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.