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A companion to African history / edited by William Worger, Charles Ambler, Nwando Achebe.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (542 pages).
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Subject(s)
Africa
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History
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Africa
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Civilization
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Africa
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Social conditions
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Editor
Worger, William H.
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Ambler, Charles H.
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Achebe, Nwando, 1970-
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Series
Blackwell companions to history.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / Worger
Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht
Masculinities / Stephan Miescher
Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko
Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson
Women, authority and power in southeast Africa during pre-colonial times / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe
Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire Robertson
Kinship in African history / James Giblin
Ethnicity in southern Africa / Michael Mahoney
Ethnicity and race in African thought / Jonathan Glassman
Islam in African history / Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar
Refugees in African history / Brett Shadle
Science in Africa : a history of ingenuity and invention in African iron technology / Peter Schmidt
Africa and environmental history / Greg Maddox
Health and medicine in African history / Karen Flint
Wealth and poverty in African history / Morten Jerven
The idea of the Atlantic world from an Africanist perspective / Walter Hawthorne
Swahili literature and the writing of African history / Ann Bierstecker
Africa and the Cold War / Tim Scarnecchia
The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet Weldemichael
The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding
Remembering and forgetting Apartheid / Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger
Cultural resistance on Robben Island : songs of struggle and liberation in southern Africa / Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi
African historians and popular culture / Charles Ambler.
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ISBN
1-119-06350-7
1-119-06357-4
1-119-06355-8
OCLC
1039209698
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