African Islands

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000567342

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African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa’s islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies, and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa’s islands for students and academics alike.

Author : Toyin Falola,R. Joseph Parrott,Danielle Porter Sanchez
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580469548

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African Islands by Toyin Falola,R. Joseph Parrott,Danielle Porter Sanchez Pdf

Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast

Author : Alfred Burdon Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UCAL:$B58190

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West African Islands by Alfred Burdon Ellis Pdf

Author : Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0002194430

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Island Africa by Jonathan Kingdon Pdf

Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt

Author : Tor Sellström
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004291148

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Africa in the Indian Ocean by Tor Sellström Pdf

Tor Sellström profiles the independent island states and the European dependencies in the African part of the Indian Ocean, their contemporary social, political and economic challenges, the wider international context and their relations with, in particular, Africa and the African Union.

Author : James Sibree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Botany
ISBN : UOM:39015002642398

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The Great African Island by James Sibree Pdf

Author : Charles W. Thomas,Chas. W. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Africa
ISBN : NYPL:33433082450556

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Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands by Charles W. Thomas,Chas. W. Thomas Pdf

Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032754176

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African Islands and Enclaves by Robin Cohen Pdf

Small territories and islands both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides a balance between enclaves and islands, between Indian and Atlantic Ocean territories.

Author : Catherine Higgs
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821444221

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Chocolate Islands by Catherine Higgs Pdf

In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.

Author : Conrad Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCAL:$B58023

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Madagascar, Mauritius and the Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller Pdf

Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003245366

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African Islands by Peter Mitchell Pdf

"African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa's islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa's islands for students and academics alike"--

Author : Alfred Burdon Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:560089607

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West African Islands by Alfred Burdon Ellis Pdf

Author : Conrad Keller
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018336591

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Madagascar, Mauritius and Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : A. Terauds,J. Cooper,S.L. Chown,P. Ryan
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781920338428

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Marion & Prince Edward by A. Terauds,J. Cooper,S.L. Chown,P. Ryan Pdf

ÿ This book tells the story of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, South Africa's southernmost territories; their fiery origins, their discovery and exploitation, the amazing plants and animals that live and grow there, and their current importance for research and conservation. The book features various photographs which capture the beauty of these remote and unique environments.

Author : Hansen, Thorkild
Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789988550622

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Islands of Slaves by Hansen, Thorkild Pdf

This is third title in Thorkild Hansen's classic trilogy on the Atlantic slave trade, originally published in Danish in 1967; and the first major translation and publication of the work in English. In Europe and North America, few are aware that the beautiful and now wealthy Virgin Islands of St Thomas, St Croix and St Jan were once Danish settlements and outposts of the slave trade. Moreover that the question of the independence of the islands was never seriously considered by the Danes, who instead sold them to the US in 1917 for 25 million dollars, several decades after the official end of slavery. This was against the will of the majority of the islanders, who were opposed to rule by the Americans, wary of their iniquitous treatment of blacks. In Denmark meanwhile, the popular view of national history presides that Denmark was the first of the imperial powers to abolish the slave trade. Thorkild Hansen's work breaks with these miss- representations of Denmark's role in the Atlantic slave trade. The third and biggest volume in the trilogy covers the period from the introduction of African slaves to the Danish islands, their official emancipation in 1848, subsequent sale to the Americans in the twentieth century, and reactions and resistance to these processes. Scrutinizing Denmark's moral obligation towards the islanders, the author draws extensively on primary sources, dramatizing and depicting real life characters into a moving and descriptive narrative. The introduction is provided by the historian A.V. Adams who states that ' Hansen's trilogy and Dako's scholarly initiative and competence in translating it contributes not only to Danes' re-reading of their own history, but also to West Indians' understanding of theirs... Hansen and Darko's contribution reaches beyond the Caribbean into the larger history of African-diaspora slave resistance... And inasmuch as the islands under consideration of the United States of America, this book through its translation becomes a text of US historiography...'