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Cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875
- Title
- Cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875 / Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University.
- Author
- Getz, Trevor R.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 106 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- African world histories
- Uniform Title
- African world histories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds -- A place to begin -- Spirit power and state power in Burganda -- Xhosa worlds: homestead, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors -- Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state -- Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies -- Tunis under the Beys -- Reigning in greed and anarchy in Bakongo and Jaga state and society -- Beatriz as Saint Anthony -- Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era -- An Oceanic era -- Mediterranean Africa -- Atlantic Africa -- Indian Ocean Africa -- The chronicles of Pate and nineteenth-century Swahili identity -- Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa -- African "world" and African "traditional" religions -- African Islam in the eighteenth century -- African Christianity and Protestant evangelism -- The Xhosa cattle killing -- Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution -- Production and productivity in late eighteenth-century Africa -- Africans and the industrial revolution -- Settlers, peasants, and plantations -- Muhammad Ali's Egypt -- Chapter 5: Africans engage the West-- Men and women in the middle? -- Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam -- The Abbé Boilat -- James Africanus Horton -- The "educated men" of the Fante Confederation -- Jan Tzatzoe in Britain -- Toward colonialism?
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-1195
- ISBN
- 9780199764709
- 0199764700
- LCCN
- 2012017009
- OCLC
- 794227937
- Author
- Getz, Trevor R., author.
- Title
- Cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875 / Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African world historiesAfrican world histories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY. TEXTBOOK-- INTRO. UNDERGRAD.
- Chronological Term
- To 1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-1195