Cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | African world histories.
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Table of 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
- Imperial Tunis
- Reigning in greed and anarchy in Bakongo and Jaga state and society
- Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony
- Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era
- An Oceanic era
- Mediterranean Africa
- Atlantic Africa
- Indian Ocean Africa
- Feature: the chronicles of Pate and 19th 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
- Feature: 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
- Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt
- Chapter 5: Africans write back
- Men and women in the middle?
- Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam
- The Abbe Boilat
- James Africanus Horton
- The "educated men" of the Fante Confederation
- Jan Tzatzoe in Britain
- Towards colonialism?