Research Catalog

Title

A companion to African history / edited by William H. Worger, Charles Ambler, and Nwando Achebe.

Publication

• Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Worger, William H.
• Ambler, Charles H.
• Achebe, Nwando, 1970-

Description

xiii, 525 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history

Uniform Title

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.

Subject

• Christianity and other religions > Africa > Islam
• Civilization
• Social conditions
• Africa > History
• Africa > Historiography
• Africa > Civilization
• Africa > Religion
• Africa > Religious life and customs
• Africa > Social conditions
• Africa > Economic conditions
• Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc F 19-272

ISBN

• 9780470656310
• 047065631X

LCCN

2018016967

OCLC

1022781030

Title

A companion to African history / edited by William H. Worger, Charles Ambler, and Nwando Achebe.

Publisher

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Worger, William H., editor.

Ambler, Charles H., editor.

Achebe, Nwando, 1970- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 19-272