The Horse In West African History

Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429954559

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The Horse in West African History by Robin Law Pdf

Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the role of the horse in the societies of West Africa during the pre-colonial period. It traces the history of its introduction and its diffusion within West Africa, and examines the problems of maintaining horses in such a harsh environment. The use of horses in warfare in analysed but the non-military aspects of the West African horse culture are also discussed, principally the use of horses as tokens of status and wealth. The book includes a review of the decline of the West African horse culture in the 20th century, reflecting the passing of a political system based on warfare and slavery.

Author : A. Adu Boahen
Publisher : London, Longmans
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015035305021

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Topics in West African History by A. Adu Boahen Pdf

Author : Sandra Swart
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781868148547

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Riding High by Sandra Swart Pdf

An examination of the role of horses in the colonial economies of South Africa Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonizers not only provided power and transportation to settlers (and later indigenous peoples) but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were not only agents but subjects of enduring changes. This book explores the introduction of these horses under VOC rule in the mid-seventeenth century, their dissemination into the interior, their acquisition by indigenous groups and their ever-shifting roles. In undergoing their relocation to the Cape, the horse of the Dutch empire in southeast Asia experienced a physical transformation over time. Establishing an early breeding stock was fraught with difficulty and horses remained vulnerable in the new and dangerous environment. They had to be nurtured into defending their owners' ambitions: first those of the white settlement and then African and other hybrid social groupings. The book traces the way horses were adapted by shifting human needs in the nineteenth century. It focuses on their experiences in the South African War, on the cusp of the twentieth century, and highlights how horses remained integral to civic functioning on various levels, replaced with mechanization only after lively debate. The book thus reinserts the horse into the broader historical narrative. The socio-economic and political ramifications of their introduction is delineated. The idea of ecological imperialism is tested in order to draw southern African environmental history into a wider global dialogue on socio-environmental historiographical issues. The focus is also on the symbolic dimension that led horses to be both feared and desired. Even the sensory dimensions of this species' interaction with human societies is explored. Finally, the book speculates about what a new kind of history that takes animals seriously might offer us.

Author : Daud Malik Watts
Publisher : Afro Vision
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Horsemen and horsewomen
ISBN : 0942843010

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The 100,000 Horsemen of West Africa by Daud Malik Watts Pdf

Author : William F. S. Miles,Samuel Benjamin Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019808853

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My African Horse Problem by William F. S. Miles,Samuel Benjamin Miles Pdf

A cross-cultural memoir by a former Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright scholar.

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632174287

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“A” History of West Africa 1000-1800 by Basil Davidson Pdf

Author : David C. Conrad
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781604131642

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Empires of Medieval West Africa by David C. Conrad Pdf

Explores empires of medieval west Africa.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445662

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Themes in West Africa’s History by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Pdf

There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380189

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Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past by Anonim Pdf

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.

Author : Bassey Andah,Alex Okpoko,Thurstan Shaw,Paul Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134679423

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The Archaeology of Africa by Bassey Andah,Alex Okpoko,Thurstan Shaw,Paul Sinclair Pdf

Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.

Author : John Lamphear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351960373

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African Military History by John Lamphear Pdf

This collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in African historiographical discourse, as well as others which, while lesser known, provide remarkable insight into the unique nature of African military history. Selections were made so as to produce an introduction to the understudied field of pre-colonial African military history that will be useful to specialists and non-specialists alike. The volume also contains an introduction which presents one of the first significant reviews of pre-colonial African military historiography ever attempted.

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066960

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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa Pdf

"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Author : Michael Crowder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000958119

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West Africa Under Colonial Rule by Michael Crowder Pdf

Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the colonialists that their rule was generally beneficial. Penetrating descriptions of the colonial economic system are given, and the quality of colonial administration is analysed, as well as the impact of two World Wars.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849017329

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A Brief History of Slavery by Jeremy Black Pdf

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms throughout history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the West Indies, and the murderous forced labour of the gulags and concentration camps. Slavery helped to consolidate transoceanic empires and helped mould new world societies such as America and Brazil. Black charts the long fight for abolition in the nineteenth century, looking at both the campaigners as well as the harrowing accounts of the enslaved themselves. Slavery is still with us today, and coerced labour can be found closer to home than one might expect.

Author : J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107009394

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Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa by J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran Pdf

"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.