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Author : Augustin F. C. Holl
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703610
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)
Download or read book West African Early Towns written by Augustin F. C. Holl and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Parker
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780325001913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Making the Town written by John Parker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the Town is the social history of a West African urban community, the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, from the 1860s to the 1920s. Its focus is town politics, and it shows how the Ga townspeople actively shaped Accras transition from pre-colonial city-state to colonial port city.
Author : Michael Gomez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196826
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book African Dominion written by Michael Gomez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.
Author : Eveline Christiana Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The British West African Settlements, 1750-1821 written by Eveline Christiana Martin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521527927
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The African City written by Bill Freund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Josef Gugler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521213486
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa written by Josef Gugler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, this is an interdisciplinary study of rapid urban growth in West Africa. Gugler and Flanagan first explore the history of the cities of the early West African empires and they draw on the work of social anthropologists and sociologists, as well as demographers, economists, geographers, historians, political scientists and social psychologists. They then describe the urban explosion that the region experienced after World War II. They explore the implications of widespread urban unemployment and underemployment, the housing crisis and the emergence of metropolitan areas such as Lagos. The literature on urbanization and social change in Black Africa in general, and West Africa in particular, expanded at a fast pace in the years preceding publication. This critical review of the disparate findings filled a gap in African Studies and threw light on the understanding of Third World urbanization.
Author : Martin Sterry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494447
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond written by Martin Sterry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882644
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book West Africa before the Colonial Era written by Basil Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009391
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michiel de Haas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000563294
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Migration in Africa written by Michiel de Haas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa’s external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave trades and the more recent outmigration to the Global North, but this book argues that migration within the continent has been far more central to the lives of Africans over the course of the last two centuries. The book demonstrates that only by taking a broad historical and continent-wide perspective can we understand the distinctions between the more immediate drivers of migration and deeper patterns of change over time. During the 19th century Africa’s external slave trades gradually declined, whilst Africa’s expanding commodity export sectors drew in domestic labor. This led to an era of heightened mobility within the region, marked by rapidly rising and vanishing migratory flows, increasingly diversified landscapes of migration systems, and profound long-term shifts in the wider patterns of migration. This era of inward-focused mobility reduced with a resurgence of outmigration after 1960, when Africans became more deliberate in search of extra-continental destinations, with new diaspora communities emerging specifically in the Global North. Broad ranging in its temporal, spatial, and thematic coverage, this book provides students and researchers with the perfect introduction to age of intra-African migration.
Author : Christopher R. DeCorse
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780718502478
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade written by Christopher R. DeCorse and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites from the Senegambia to the Cameroon. The focus is on the archaeological record of the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trave, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. While historians have examined many aspects of this period, the written record provides only limited insight into the history and development of many areas. Archaeology has the potential to provide unique information not accessible through documentary records or oral traditions. Thus, the material record offers the most valuable means of evaluating both change and continuity in African societies over the past 500 years.The geographical and topical scope of this volume is extremely timely. Historical archaeology, particularly aspects dealing with European interactions with indigenous populations, is an area that has received increasing attention over the past decade. There has also been a growing interest in studies of Africa and the African diaspora. This volume, the first to draw together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa, will be an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuitites in the Americas.>
Author : Adeline Masquelier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253003466
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town written by Adeline Masquelier and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.
Author : Zachary Kingdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337939
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa written by Zachary Kingdon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.
Author : David C. Conrad
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604131640
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Empires of Medieval West Africa written by David C. Conrad and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0852557353
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Archaeology Africa written by Martin Hall and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004348999
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Essouk - Tadmekka written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Essouk-Tadmekka Sam Nixon and a team of scholars present the first archaeological exploration of the southern Saharan town of Essouk-Tadmekka, in early Islamic times an important market centre on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes linking the Mediterranean and West Africa.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882652
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book West Africa before the Colonial Era written by Basil Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
