A companion to African history /
Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
2019.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / William H. Worger
- Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht
- Masculinities / Stephan F. Miescher
- Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko
- Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson
- Women, authority and power in southeast Africa: the production and destruction of historical knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi and Ndwandwe / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
- Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe
- Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire C. 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 R. Schmidt
- Africa and environmental history / Gregory H. Maddox
- Health and medicine in African history / Karen E. 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 / Timothy Scarnecchia
- The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet T. Weldemichael
- The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding
- Apartheid forgotten and remembered / 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.