The search for Africa : a history in the making

著者

• Davidson, Basil

書誌事項

The search for Africa : a history in the making

Basil Davidson

J. Currey, c1994

• : cloth
• : paper

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: paper ISBN 9780852557143

内容説明

The collection gathers together the questions and answers that have come out of the author's lifelong fascination with Africa. These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that context, the author's own development. People who have been involved all their lives with Africa willbe reminded of how many times Basil Davidson has given them new insights. People who approach the study of Africa for the first time will find this collection opens out their perceptions. North America: Times/Random House

目次

• Part 1 Claims: the search for Africa's past
• Africa and the invention of racism
• rescuing Africa's history
• Africanism and its meanings. Part 2 Antipathies: trigger-happy transvaal
• resistance in South Africa
• the roots of anti-apartheid
• South Africa - a system of legalized servitude
• Congo saga
• "a little corner of paradise"
• pluralism in colonial African societies. Part 3 Sympathies: African peasants and revolution
• ideas and circumstances
• the legacy of Amilcar Cabral. Part 4 Debates: nationalism and its ambiguities
• nationalism and Africa's self-transformation
• the politics of resitution
• Southern Africa - progress or disaster? Part 5 Arguments: the Ancient World and Africa - whose roots?
• the curse of Columbus.

巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780852557198

内容説明

The collection gathers together the questions and answers that have come out of the author's lifelong fascination with Africa.

目次

• Part 1 Claims: the search for Africa's past
• Africa and the invention of racism
• rescuing Africa's history
• Africanism and its meanings. Part 2 Antipathies: trigger-happy transvaal
• resistance in South Africa
• the roots of anti-apartheid
• South Africa - a system of legalized servitude
• Congo saga
• "a little corner of paradise"
• pluralism in colonial African societies. Part 3 Sympathies: African peasants and revolution
• ideas and circumstances
• the legacy of Amilcar Cabral. Part 4 Debates: nationalism and its ambiguities
• nationalism and Africa's self-transformation
• the politics of resitution
• Southern Africa - progress or disaster? Part 5 Arguments: the Ancient World and Africa - whose roots?
• the curse of Columbus.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA23270926
• ISBN:
  • 0852557191
  • 0852557140
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 373 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 960