A Companion to African History. (Record no. 5087)
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| Classification number | DT14 .C667 2019 |
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| Classification number | 960 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Worger, William H. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Companion to African History. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Newark : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (542 pages) |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Identities and (Mis)Representations -- Part I: The personal -- Part II: Women's roles in institutions of power -- Part III: Family and community -- Part IV: Africans and their environment -- Part V: Africans and the world -- Part VI: African self-representations -- Part I The Personal -- Chapter 2 Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa -- Four notes of caution -- The age of "discovery" (and diversity) -- The age of "science" -- The age of coming out and the backlash -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Masculinities -- Conceptual issues -- African gender systems -- Big men -- Remaking men under colonialism -- Urban gangs -- The gendered elder state -- Development -- Postcolonial interventions and anxieties -- Sexualities -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood -- Christianity, colonialism, and the weight of blackness -- African personhood and Western discursive practices -- Everyday assaults on African personhood -- Crisis of African personhood: From the traditional to hybrid forms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Settler Societies -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Women's Roles in Institutions of Power -- Chapter 6 Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe -- Zulu cultural brokers and the obliteration of Queen Mother Ntombazi's image -- The production of literary texts on queen mother Ntombazi -- In defense of queen mother Ntombazi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa -- The language of love in Africa -- A tradition of love. |
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| Formatted contents note | African courtship traditions -- Types of marriages -- Love, courtship, and marriage archive -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems -- Notes -- References -- Part III Family and Community -- Chapter 9 Kinship in African History -- Individual creativity and kinship -- Kinship as a life of negotiation -- Kinship in some recent works of African history -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Ethnicity in Southern Africa -- Theoretical starting points -- Ethnicity in precolonial Southern Africa -- Ethnicity under white rule in Southern Africa -- Ethnicity in postcolonial South Africa -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11 Ethnicity and Race in African Thought -- Instrumentalism and constructivism -- Beyond modernism -- Racial entanglements -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 Islam in African History -- Religion, Islam, Africa: problematic terms -- Major currents of research -- Neoliberalism: new vistas, old problems? -- Possible future directions -- References -- Chapter 13 Refugees in African History -- Who is a refugee? -- Research questions -- Eastern Africa, 1850s-1920s -- Colonialism and refugee management -- Southern African liberation wars and after -- Sources -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Africans and Their Environment -- Chapter 14 Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology -- Examining historical ideas -- How ethnoarchaeology contributed to indices that assess ancient preheating -- What is preheating? -- Reprising objections -- Reification of objections -- Where are we now? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Africa and Environmental History -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Health and Medicine in African History -- Political economists of health. |
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| Formatted contents note | Social-cultural history of medicine -- Medical pluralism -- Reconstructing histories of health, healing, and medicine in Africa -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17 Wealth and Poverty in African History -- History matters? -- Approaching the African past: historians versus economists -- What do we now know that we did not know before? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part V Africans and the World -- Chapter 18 The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective -- References -- Chapter 19 Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Africa and the Cold War -- The first Congo crisis -- Southern Africa during the Cold War -- Shifting Cold War support in the Horn of Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 21 The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror -- The horn of Africa before and during the Cold War -- Cold war interests and dynamics -- The horn of Africa and the global war on terror -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part VI African Self-Representations -- Chapter 22 The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered -- Removing the black voice -- White conversations about black actions -- Forgetting -- Remembering -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Chapter 24 Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa -- Review of related literature -- Robben island songs: experiences of PAC political prisoners in the post‐Sharpeville Era, 1960-1969 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 African Historians and Popular Culture -- References -- Index -- EULA. |
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| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa-History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa-Civilization. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa-Social conditions. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ambler, Charles. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Achebe, Nwando. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Worger, William H. |
| Title | A Companion to African History |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2018 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780470656310 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5515193">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5515193</a> |
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