East Africa : An Introductory History.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- East African Geography -- Topography -- Climate -- Vegitation and Soil -- The Peopleing of East Africa to c.1000 A.D. -- Early Stone Age -- Middle Stone Age -- Late Stone Age -- Populations and Languages of East Africa -- Food Production and Iron Working -- The Early Iron Age and Bantu Migrations -- Early Nilotic Migrations -- Population Interaction and Absorption -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The East African Coast to 1800 -- The Coastal Plain -- Azania: The Coast to 1000 A.D. -- The Swahili Period: 1000-1500 -- The Coming of Portuguese Dominance: 1500-1600 -- The Decline of Portuguese Control: 1600-1700 -- The Omani Period at the Coast: 1700-1800 -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The East African Interior: c.1000 to 1650 -- Uganda -- The Rise of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms: Bunyoro-Kitara -- Origin of the Kingdom of Nkore -- Buganda Origins -- Lwoo Migrations into Uganda -- Lwoo Migrations within East Africa -- Kenya -- Highlands Nilotes -- Plains Nilotes -- Bantu and River-Lake Nilotes of Western Kenya: the Luhya and Luo -- The Thagicu Peoples -- Mainland Tanzania -- West Lake Region: the Haya States -- West Central Tanzania: the Ntemi Chieftaincies -- Eastern Tanzania -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The East African Interior from 1650 to 1850 -- Uganda -- Bunyoro-Kitara -- Kabarega and the Rejuvenation of Bunyoro -- Buganda: Territorial Expansion -- Centralization and Strengthening of the Monarchy in Buganda -- The Kingdom of Nkore -- The Kingdom of Toro -- Lwoo-Speaking Communities -- Karamojong-Teso Movements -- Kenya -- Highlands Nilotes -- Plains Nilotes -- Western Kenya: the Luhya, Luo, and Gusii -- The Thagicu Peoples: Kikuyu and Kamba -- Mainland Tanzania -- Northwestern Tanzania -- Northeastern Tanzania -- Southern and Western Tanzania: the Coming of the Ngoni.

Long Distance Trade in Tanzania -- West-Central Tanzania: Trade and Political Centralization -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- East Africa and the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century -- Oman and the East African Coast -- Seyyid Said and Zanzibar -- Economic Impact of Nineteenth Century Trade -- Growth of External Commerce -- Anti-Slave Trade Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa -- Missionary Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa -- Christian Missions and Buganda -- European Adventurers as Precursors to European Involvment in East Africa -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The Scramble for East Africa -- Britain and Zanzibar: "Informal Empire" -- Egypt and the Scramble for East Africa -- Germany Enters East Africa -- Charted Companies and the Scramble for Uganda -- From Chartered Companies to Protectorates -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The Establishment of European Rule: 1890s to 1914 -- Conquest and Resistance -- The Ecological Catastrophe -- Beginning Administration -- Economic and Social Considerations -- Uganda -- Britain and Buganda -- Buganda Sub-imperialism -- The Buganda Agreement of 1900 -- Further Resistance to British Rule -- Further Expansion of Colonial Rule -- The Colonial Economy -- Missions and Western Education -- Kenya -- The Uganda Railway -- The Conquest of Kenya -- European Settlement and Land -- The Colonial Economy -- Missions and Western Education -- Social and Political Dominance of the European Settlers -- German East Africa -- The Conquest of German East Africa -- The Colonial Economy -- The Maji Maji Rebellion -- Reform and Development Under Rechenberg -- African Improvement and Education -- Zanzibar -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- East Africa from the First World War to the Second: 1914-1939 -- Tanganyika -- The War and German East Africa -- The Start of British Rule in Tanganyika.

Sir Donald Cameron and Indirect Rule -- The Depression and After -- Improvement and African Politics -- Uganda -- Peasant or Plantation Agriculture for Uganda -- African Discontent and Politics -- Education -- Uganda's Asians -- The Colonial Economy -- Kenya -- Kenya Africans and the War -- Toward European Domination -- The Asian Question -- African Political Activism after the War -- Settler Politics, Closer Union, and the Colonial Office -- The Colonial Economy -- African Protest in the 1930s -- Zanzibar -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- The Rise of Nationalism and Achievement of Independence in East Africa: 1939-1963 -- World War II and East Africa -- Tanganyika -- Development and the Post-war Economy -- Colonial Policy and African Politics after the War -- TANU and the Triumph of Mass Nationalism -- The Colonial Economy -- Uganda -- Popular Discontent in Buganda -- Sir Andrew Cohen and the "Kabaka Crisis" -- National Politics and Buganda Separatism -- Toward Independence -- The Colonial Economy -- Kenya -- The War and the Mitchell Era -- The Coming of Mau Mau -- The Emergency -- Toward African Self-Government -- The Colonial Economy -- Zanzibar -- Evolution of Political Parties -- Toward Independence -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Independent East Africa, 1960s to 1990s -- Independence and Dependency -- Attempts to Achieve Closer Cooperation in East Africa -- Tanzania -- Establishment of a Republic -- Tanganyika to Tanzania -- The One-Party State -- Socialism and Self-reliance: the Arusha Declaration -- Building a Socialist Tanzania -- Retreat from Ujamaa -- Foreign Affairs -- Uganda -- Cooperation and Conflict with Buganda -- Political Turmoil and the Kabaka's Downfall -- Uganda's New Republic -- Obote's Fall and the Amin Dictatorship -- Post-Amin Uganda -- Foreign Affairs -- Kenya -- KANU and the Unitary State.

Two-Party Politics: the KPU -- Kenya in the 1970s -- The Moi Presidency -- End of the Moi Era -- Foreign Affairs -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary of African Terms -- Index -- Maps -- Main Physical Features of East Africa -- Simplified Vegetation Patterns of East Africa -- Modern Distribution of Languages in East Africa -- Bantu Languages of East Africa -- Distribution of the Early Iron Age -- Dating the Early Iron Age -- Bantu Migrations -- East African Coast -- West-Central Uganda -- Lwoo Migrations to East Africa -- Lwoo Migrations within East Africa -- Highlands and Plains Nilotes before 1800 -- Western Kenya -- Modern Distribution of Thagicu-Speaking Peoples -- Mainland Tanzania -- Buganda Expansion, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries -- Teso Movements -- Western Kenya in the Nineteenth Century -- Ngoni in Tanzania -- Nineteenth Century Trade Routes -- Partition of East Africa to 1895 -- Colonial Uganda -- Colonial Kenya -- German East Africa.

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