African World Histories : Cosmopolitan Africa, C.1700-1875
ISBN: 9780199764709 | 0199764700
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/3/2012
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Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings,forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' ora... MORE
Series Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds
A Place to begin
Spirit power and state power in Burganda
Xhosa worlds: homestad, 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 Ocean... MORE
Trevor R. Getz is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2011) and Slavery and Reform in West Africa (2004), and coauthor of textbooks in world and African history.
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