Bøger i Western African Studies serien
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- The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism
318,95 - 738,95 kr. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth-including the Gold Coast of West Africa.El
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- 318,95 kr.
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421,95 kr. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.
- Bog
- 421,95 kr.
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- Toward Emancipation In Nineteenth-Century
318,95 - 1.078,95 kr. By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, this book reveals the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, and also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations.
- Bog
- 318,95 kr.
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- Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War
328,95 - 738,95 kr. West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa.
- Bog
- 328,95 kr.
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- An ECO-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana : c. 1850 to Recent Times
406,95 kr. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. As a fishing community the Anlo have a strong attachment to their land.
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- 406,95 kr.
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- Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920
318,95 - 743,95 kr. Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 298,95 kr.
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- West African Strategies
871,95 kr. While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention.
- Bog
- 871,95 kr.
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- West African Strategies
381,95 kr. While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention.
- Bog
- 381,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 743,95 kr.
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- The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892
313,95 kr. Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
- Bog
- 313,95 kr.