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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455816003321

Titolo

Rethinking Resistance : Revolt and Violence in African History / / edited by Jon Abbink, Klaas van Walraven, Mirjam de Bruijn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-46687-1

9786610466870

1-4175-0717-9

90-474-0162-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

African Dynamics ; ; 2

Disciplina

303.6/0967

Soggetti

Decolonization - Africa - History

Government, Resistance to - Africa - History

Revolutions - Africa - History

Violence - Africa - History

Electronic books.

Africa Ethnic relations

Africa History, Military

Africa Politics and government

Europe Colonies Africa History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Maps, figures, tables and photographs; Preface; 1 Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES; PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE; PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY; List of authors

Sommario/riassunto

Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites



profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts.