Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44

Rachel M Petrocelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control ... Lees meer

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 47
• A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural s... Lees meer

Nation as Grand Narrative

Wale Adebanwi

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 70
• Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of natio... Lees meer

Disability in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 91
• Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disabilit... Lees meer

Not So Plain as Black and White

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 19
• Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 187... Lees meer

Decolonizing African Studies

Toyin Falola

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 93
• Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa. This book explore... Lees meer

The United States and West Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 34
• The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa. Ove... Lees meer

IRA Aldridge

Bernth Lindfors

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 48
• The first widely available biography of this important black Victorian-age actor, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 details the early life and ... Lees meer

Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

Jonathan E Robins

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 73
• During the first two decades of the twentieth century, demand for raw cotton in Europe, Asia, and America outstripped production as African Americans ... Lees meer

Decolonizing African Studies

Toyin Falola

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 93
• This book examines the most significant aspects of decolonization and decoloniality, the voices that articulate them, and how they are represented in ... Lees meer

Afro-Brazilians

Niyi Afolabi

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 39
• An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture. Brazil, the most racial... Lees meer

Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba

Sarah L Franklin

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 54
• Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gen... Lees meer

Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986

Eric Morier-Genoud

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 84
• Looks at the politics of the Catholic Church during a turbulent period in central Mozambique This book is concerned with the internal diversity and co... Lees meer

Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa

Kwaku Korang

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 16
• This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghan... Lees meer

Indirect Rule in South Africa

J C Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 33
• A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indi... Lees meer

The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954

Jonathan Gosnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 14
• An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule. In recent years, a multicultur... Lees meer

Voices of the Poor in Africa

Elizabeth Isichei

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 12
• An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather t... Lees meer

Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone

Alusine Jalloh

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 78
• This groundbreaking volume explores the history of Muslim Fula business elites' participation in the post-independence politics of Sierra Leone. One o... Lees meer

Building a Peaceful Nation

Paul Bjerk

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 63
• A compelling account of the establishment of Tanzania's stable and ambitious government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil. In the e... Lees meer

A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994

Arnold Hughes, David Perfect

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 26
• The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government. A Political Histo... Lees meer

South Africa and the World Economy

William G Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 57
• This volume chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa, once an international pariah, as a respected and influential African st... Lees meer

Guardians of the Tradition

James de Lorenzi

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 66
• Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day. Eth... Lees meer

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 98
• A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience of Ethiopians within and beyond... Lees meer

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 21
• African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It pre... Lees meer