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Author: Anders Bjorkelo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521534444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses socio-economic change among the peasants and traders during the the Turkiyya period of Sudanese history.
Author: Jenny Balfour-Paul
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1136603247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role indigo has played elsewhere has been fairly well documented, but in the case of the Arab world, little or no thorough investigation has been previously undertaken. Sets out to provide comprehensive coverage of the subject from its earliest history to the present day.
Author: Bruce Vandervort
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1134223811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. The aim of this book is to examine the origins and conduct of colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century, as far as possible from the perspectives both of the European invaders and the African resisters, and in the process to demonstrate the impact, both immediate and long-term, of these wars upon the societies, political structures and military theory and practice of both victors and vanquished. Vandervort has written this book with the student and general reader in mind; scholarly apparatus has been kept to a minimum. The book which follows takes as its point of departure the belief that we have now reached a point in our understanding of the military history of the partition of Africa where it is possible to begin to draw some meaningful general conclusions.
Author: Alden Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1107172497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.
Author: Christian A. Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 110709934X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliams traces the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.
Author: Andrew Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1351293028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spread of modernity throughout the non-Western world has had transformative effects not only on governments and economies but on the lives of individuals as well. The constraints and opportunities of modernization inevitably lead to the breakdown and supplanting of older social relations and livelihoods. In this volume Andrew P. Davidson examines the Nuba Mountain region of western Sudan to show how individuals and families struggle to maintain or expand their well-being in the face of continuous uncertainty, when control of their destinies is increasingly slipping out of the comforting confines of the village.As in many third world regions, changes in agriculture and market activity have occurred in the Nuba mountains in a far more compressed tune frame than in Europe. Davidson charts the social effects of the rationalization process by concentrating on the household as a mediating structure between the individual and the larger society. In his analysis the livelihood strategies of households act as a microcosm for the unevenness of development that is characteristic of modernizing economies. Davidson offers a comparative and historical examination of economic life in three villages in order to better understand the capacities and limitations that ultimately condition what people can and cannot do. He shows how the older lineage system based on communalism, kinship, and age-based hierarchy is being displaced by new forces of social organization and individual orientation which have eroded village cohesion and left the Nuba vulnerable to the Islamic-dominated government in Khartoum and the ravages of the continuing Sudanese civil war.In its combination of empirical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and theoretical inquiry In the Shadow of History reconceptualizes development in such a way that the dynamics of historical transformation are made clear. This study hi the classic anthropological tradition will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, economists, historians, and Africa area specialists.
Author: Justin Pearce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1107079640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the internal politics of the war that divided Angola for more than a quarter-century after independence. In contrast to earlier studies, its emphasis is on Angolan people's relationship to the rival political forces that prevented the development of a united nation. Pearce's argument is based on original interviews with farmers and town dwellers, soldiers and politicians in Central Angola. He uses these to examine the ideologies about nation and state that elites deployed in pursuit of hegemony, and traces how people responded to these efforts at politicisation. The material presented here demonstrates the power of the ideas of state and nation in shaping perceptions of self-interest and determining political loyalty. Yet the book also shows how political allegiances could and did change in response to the experience of military force. In so doing, it brings the Angolan case to the centre of debates on conflict in post-colonial Africa.
Author: Julien Brachet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1108428339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.
Author: Judith Scheele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 110737989X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars, Judith Scheele investigates the history of contemporary patterns of mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. Through a careful analysis of family ties and local economic records, this book shows how long-standing mobility and interdependence have shaped not only local economies, but also notions of social hierarchy, morality and political legitimacy, creating patterns that endure today and that need to be taken into account in any empirically-grounded study of the region.
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107198321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
