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African World Histories : Colonial Africa, 1884-1994

ISBN: 9780199796397 | 0199796394
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/3/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
African World Histories is a series of retellings of some of the most commonly discussed episodes of the African and global past from the perspectives of Africans who lived through them. Integrating primary sources produced or informed by Africans, with accessible scholarly interpretation,African World Histories will give students insights into African experiences and perspectives into many of the events and trends that are commonly discussed in the history classroom.
Colonial Africa, 1884-1994, presents ... MORE

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: Economics
Abolition and "legitimate commerce"
Informal colonialism
Scramble for Africa
Colonial economy
Suggested Readings

Chapter 2: Administration
District Officers, Intermediaries, and Missionaries
Models of colonial rule
Identity and politics
Comparative colonialism
Settler colonies
Suggested Readings

Chapter 3: Violence
Conquest and resistance
Uprisings and atrocities
World Wars
Arm... MORE

Dennis Laumann is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. The author of the forthcoming Remembering the Germans in Ghana and other publications on West African history, Laumann received his doctorate from UCLA in 1999. He is president of the Ghana Studies Association and a Fulbright Scholar. He also is the recipient of numerous teaching honors, including the Thomas W. Briggs Foundation's Excellence in Teaching Award.


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