Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:896632684
The African Past
Basil Davidson
The African Past
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Archaeology, Language, and the African Past
R. Blench
Author : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0759104662
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past by R. Blench Pdf
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Windows on the African Past
Ahmed G. Fahmy,Stefanie Kahlheber,A. Catherine D'Andrea
Author : Ahmed G. Fahmy,Stefanie Kahlheber,A. Catherine D'Andrea
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783937248325
Windows on the African Past by Ahmed G. Fahmy,Stefanie Kahlheber,A. Catherine D'Andrea Pdf
Archaeobotany has significantly increased our knowledge of the relationships between humans and plants throughout the ages. As is amply illustrated in this volume, botanical remains preserved in archaeological contexts have great potential to inform us about past environments and the various methods used by ancient peoples to exploit and cultivate plants. This volume presents the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) held at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, on 13-15 June 2009. Studies presented herein clearly illustrate that African archaeobotany is a dynamic field, with many advances in techniques and important case studies presented since the first meeting of IWAA held in 1994. Authors have employed classical and new archaeobotanical techniques, in addition to linguistics and ethnoarchaeology to increase our knowledge about the role of plants in ancient African societies. This book covers a wide range of African countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Canary Islands. It is of interest to archaeobotanists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, agronomists, and plant ecologists.
Plants and People in the African Past
Anna Maria Mercuri,A. Catherine D'Andrea,Rita Fornaciari,Alexa Höhn
Author : Anna Maria Mercuri,A. Catherine D'Andrea,Rita Fornaciari,Alexa Höhn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319898391
Plants and People in the African Past by Anna Maria Mercuri,A. Catherine D'Andrea,Rita Fornaciari,Alexa Höhn Pdf
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes. This book provides an insight into/overview of the manifold routes people have taken in various parts Africa in order to make a decent living from the provisions of their environment by bringing together the analyses of macroscopic and microscopic plant remains with ethnographic, botanical, geographical and linguistic research. The numerous chapters cover almost all the continent countries, and were prepared by most of the scholars who study African archaeobotany, i.e. the complex and composite history of plant uses and environmental transformations during the Holocene.
Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past
Francois G Richard,Kevin C MacDonald
Author : Francois G Richard,Kevin C MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315428994
Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past by Francois G Richard,Kevin C MacDonald Pdf
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how these intersect with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning from prehistory to the colonial period.
African History: A Very Short Introduction
John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484
African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Africa since 1940
Frederick Cooper
Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107651340
Africa since 1940 by Frederick Cooper Pdf
Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.
Writing African History
John Edward Philips
Author : John Edward Philips
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1580462561
Writing African History by John Edward Philips Pdf
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
The African Past Speaks
Joseph Calder Miller
Author : Joseph Calder Miller
Publisher : Folkestone, Eng. : Dawson ; Hamden, Conn. : Archon
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004731512
The African Past Speaks by Joseph Calder Miller Pdf
Uncovering the African Past
Runoko Rashidi
Author : Runoko Rashidi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992686350
Uncovering the African Past by Runoko Rashidi Pdf
Reclaiming the Black Past
Pero G. Dagbovie
Author : Pero G. Dagbovie
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786632036
Reclaiming the Black Past by Pero G. Dagbovie Pdf
The past and future of Black history In this information-overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine basis. And our perceptions of history, including African American history, have not necessarily been shaped by professional historians. In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of black history, including its historical icons, has been shaped by institutions and individuals outside academic ivory towers. Drawing on a range of compelling examples, Dagbovie explores how, in the twenty-first century, African American history is regarded, depicted, and juggled by diverse and contesting interpreters—from museum curators to filmmakers, entertainers, politicians, journalists, and bloggers. Underscoring the ubiquitous nature of African-American history in contemporary American thought and culture, each chapter unpacks how black history has been represented and remembered primarily during the “Age of Obama,” the so-called era of “post-racial” American society. Reclaiming the Black Past is Dagbovie's contribution to expanding how we understand African American history during the new millennium.
The Making of the South African Past
Christopher C. Saunders
Author : Christopher C. Saunders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081886371
The Making of the South African Past by Christopher C. Saunders Pdf
Over the past one hundred years, a body of historical knowledge and writing has been built up which has sought to explain and describe the unique configuration of South African Society. In the historical evolution of this society prominence and sometimes primacy have been variously accorded to the concepts of race and class. This survey of the lives and works of the major historians of South AfricaóG. M. Theal, W. M. Macmillan, C. W. de Kiewiet, Leonard Thompson, Shula Marks and othersóexamines the ways in which the South African past has been recreated and interpreted anew. Contents: Introduction 1; PART I:3 G.M. THEAL; 1 A Canadian becomes South African 9; 2 The making of a settler historian 18; 3 Race and Class 30; 4 Racial myths and Theal's legacy 36; PART 2:3 W.M. MACMILLAN AND C.W. DE KIEWIET; 5 Macmillan: the South African years, and after 47; 6 The revisionist historian 62; 7 De Kiewiet: from Johannesburg to America 76; 8 The master historian 81; 9 Race, class, and liberal history 95; PART 3:3 AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS; 10 Early Africanist work 105; 11 Walker and other historians of the 1930s and 1940s; 12 Historians of the 1940s and 1950s 121; 13 Early radical writing 131; PART 4:3 THE LIBERAL AFRICANISTS; 14 The beginnings of liberal Africanism 143; 15 The Oxford History 154; PART 5:3 THE RADICAL CHALLENGE; 16 The challenge begins 165; 17 Class and race, structure and process 177; 18 Changing perspectives 186; Conclusion 192; References 198; Select bibliography 219; Index 235^R
Sources and Methods in African History
Toyin Falola,Christian Jennings
Author : Toyin Falola,Christian Jennings
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461409
Sources and Methods in African History by Toyin Falola,Christian Jennings Pdf
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort throughsome of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first sectiondeals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. Thefifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Christian Jennings is a Doctoral Candidatein History at the University of Texas at Austin.
African Voices of the Global Past
Trevor R. Getz
Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982132
African Voices of the Global Past by Trevor R. Getz Pdf
This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.
Recasting the Past
Derek R. Peterson,Giacomo Macola
Author : Derek R. Peterson,Giacomo Macola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124133724
Recasting the Past by Derek R. Peterson,Giacomo Macola Pdf
The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. The book takes its place alongside a small but growing literature that highlights how, in autobiographies, historical writing, fiction, and other literary genres, African writers intervened creatively in their political world. The past has already been worked over by the African interpreters that the present volume brings into view. African brokers—pastors, journalists, kingmakers, religious dissidents, politicians, entrepreneurs all—have been doing research, conducting interviews, reading archives, and presenting their results to critical audiences. Their scholarly work makes it impossible to think of African history as an inert entity awaiting the attention of professional historians. Professionals take their place in a broader field of interpretation, where Africans are already reifying, editing, and representing the past. The essays collected in Recasting the Past study the warp and weft of Africa’s homespun historical work. Contributors trace the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work. By illuminating the conventions of the past, Africa’s history writers set their contemporary constituents on a path toward a particular future. History writing was a means by which entrepreneurs conjured up constituencies, claimed legitimate authority, and mobilized people around a cause. By illuminating the spheres of debate in which Africa’s own scholars participated, Recasting the Past repositions the practice of modern history.