Cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Getz, Trevor R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:African world histories.
Subjects:
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?