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Changing horizons of African history / edited by Awet T. Weldemichael, Anthony A. Lee, and Edward A. Alpers.
- Title
- Changing horizons of African history / edited by Awet T. Weldemichael, Anthony A. Lee, and Edward A. Alpers.
- Publication
- Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2017]
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- Description
- xvi, 308 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of essays by new and seasoned scholars presents cutting-edge research on the history of Africa and the African Diasporas. The chapters ask new questions, query old assumptions, and open new fields of inquiry. While the essays are broad-ranging, three major themes found throughout the volume bind the chapters together. With a newfound focus on biographies, the volume explores Africans in the Diaspora, problematizes mobility and population displacement, and nuances resistance as a ubiquitous aspect of African history. Throughout the volume Africans are seen moving voluntarily, by necessity, or by force both within the continent and beyond it. Wherever they are, Africans are also resisting--struggling to improve their circumstances and, in the process, preserve their agency in defiance of coercive authority. In their respective ways, the chapters move beyond generalizations and abstractions to render subaltern groups and individual lives visible and comprehensible on their own terms. In compiling this volume, the editors were fully cognizant of the fact that some of these themes can be brought into focus, while the full import of the others remains just over the horizon. Hence, Changing Horizons invites further studies and asks more questions than it answers, raising new questions about the history of Africa and the African Diasporas." -- Publisher's description
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Awet T. Weldemichael, Anthony A. Lee, and Edward A. Alpers -- Rethinking Africa and the Atlantic world -- World history from below: Black internationalism and the limits of diaspora / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Rethinking the origin of slaves in west central Africa / Jose C. Curto -- Exploring Africa and the Indian Ocean world -- The deep roots of the plantation economy on the Swahili coast: productive functions and social functions of slaves and dependents, circa 1580-1820 / Thomas Vernet -- Recovering biographies of enslaved Africans in nineteenth-century Iran / Anthony A. Lee -- Le Defi: exploring the history of Mascarene martial arts / T. J. Desch Obi -- New perspectives on African geographic and social spaces -- The "Banian" in a port town: a case study of the Kachchhi Bhatiya in nineteenth-century Zanzibar / Hideaki Suzuki -- Maasai-British relations and Maasailand ecology in colonial Kenya, 1900-1960: complexities and contradictions / Willis Okech Oyugi -- The political economy of urban modernization: Addis Ababa, 1941-1975 / Shimelis Bonsa Gulema -- Women, gender, and sexuality in Africa -- From frenzied mobs to savvy businesswomen: researching the history of market women in Africa / Kathleen Sheldon -- "Homos are not safe in Nigeria": Yarl's Wood, justice, and immigration for LGBTI Nigerians / Nwando Achebe.
- ISBN
- 9781569024973
- 1569024979
- 9781569024980
- 1569024987
- LCCN
- ^^2016044519
- OCLC
- 964294801
- 959552353
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library