Conquest and Resistance to Colonialism in Africa : Volume 1
Author: Maddox, Gregory (ed)
Title: Conquest and Resistance to Colonialism in Africa : Volume 1
Publication: New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0815313888
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket.
Description: Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Stand-alone volume one of four volume series. "... for most of Africa colonial domination by European powers was both a relatively recent and relatively short phenomenon. In 1870 most Africans lived in independent societies; by 1915 all but two African sates had been conquered by Europeans. Resistance to European domination by Africans was continuous, although the level on which it occured varied. As the articles in this collection show, the costs of conquest to Africans was great. The articles in this collection concentrate on African struggles to maintain thei autonomy." - Introduction. Contents: Connexions between 'primary resistance' movements and modern mass nationalism in East and Central Africa, parts I & II / T.O. Ranger; African critics of Victorian imperialism: an analysis / B.I. Obichere; The survival of Ethiopian independence / K.V. Ram; Patterns of Igbo resistance to British conquest / A.E. Afigbo; The Franco-Baoule war, 1891-1911 : the struggle against the French conquest of Central Ivory Coast / J.M. O'Sullivan; French colonisation and African resistance in West Africa up to the First World War / B. Olatunji Oloruntimehin; Resistance and collaboration in Southern and Central Africa, c.1850-1920 / A. Isaacman and B. Isaacman; God, anti-colonialism and dance : Sheekh Uways and the Uwaysiayya / C.C. Ahmed; Resistance, revenue and development in Northern Somalia, 1905-1939 / P. Kakwenzire; The place in history of the Sudanese Mahdia / P.M. Holt; Famine and social change during the transition to colonial rule in Northeastern Tanzania, 1880-1896 / J. Giblin; The organization of the Maji Maji rebellion / J. Iliffe; Maji Maji in Ungoni : A reappraisal of existing historiography / P.M. Redmond; John Chilembwe and the New Jerusalem / J. Linden and I. Linden; 'Chimurenga' : The Shona rising of 1896-97 / D.N. Beach;Revolutionary Mahdism and resistance to colonial rule in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1905-6 / P.E. Lovejoy and J.S. Hogendorn; The Nyangire rebellion of 1907 : anti-colonial protest and the nationalist myth / E.I. Steinhart.; Articles on Colonialism and Nationalism in Africa; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; xv, 367 pages.
Seller ID: 15809
Subject: History Africa
