Format:
1 online resource (380 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401629
Content:
This work covers the subject of resistance. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? This work aims to answer this question and more.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps, figures, tables and photographs -- Preface -- 1 Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction -- PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2 Resistance to Fulbe hegemony in nineteenth-century West Africa -- 3 Colonial conquest in central Madagascar: Who resisted what? -- 4 Revisiting resistance in Italian-occupied Ethiopia: The Patriots' Movement (1936-1941) and the redefinition of post-war Ethiopia -- PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES -- 5 Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: The Kat River Settlement 1829-1856 -- 6 African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: A nineteenth-century colonial paradox -- 7 Absence of evidence is no proof: Slave resistance under German colonial rule in East Africa -- PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE -- 8 The Kawousan War reconsidered -- 9 Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): Narrative and meaning -- 10 The vagaries of violence and power in post-colonial Mozambique -- PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY -- 11 Herero genocide in the twentieth century: Politics and memory -- 12 'Namibia, land of the brave': Selective memories on war and violence within nation building -- 13 Dervishes, moryaan and freedom fighters: Cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000 -- List of authors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004126244
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004126244
Additional Edition:
Print version Rethinking resistance : Revolt and violence in African history
Language:
English
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