A companion to African history / / edited by William Worger, Charles Ambler, Nwando Achebe

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (542 pages)
• Disciplina: 960
• Soggetto geografico: Africa History; Africa Civilization; Africa Social conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): WorgerWilliam H.; AmblerCharles H.; AchebeNwando <1970->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / Worger -- Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht -- Masculinities / Stephan Miescher -- Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko -- Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson -- Women, authority and power in southeast Africa during pre-colonial times / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu -- Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe -- Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire Robertson -- Kinship in African history / James Giblin -- Ethnicity in southern Africa / Michael Mahoney -- Ethnicity and race in African thought / Jonathan Glassman -- Islam in African history / Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar -- Refugees in African history / Brett Shadle -- Science in Africa : a history of ingenuity and invention in African iron technology / Peter Schmidt -- Africa and environmental history / Greg Maddox -- Health and medicine in African history / Karen Flint -- Wealth and poverty in African history / Morten Jerven -- The idea of the Atlantic world from an Africanist perspective / Walter Hawthorne -- Swahili literature and the writing of African history / Ann Bierstecker -- Africa and the Cold War / Tim Scarnecchia -- The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet Weldemichael -- The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding -- Remembering and forgetting Apartheid / Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger -- Cultural resistance on Robben Island : songs of struggle and liberation in southern Africa / Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi -- African historians and popular culture / Charles Ambler.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to African history
• ISBN: 1-119-06350-7; 1-119-06357-4; 1-119-06355-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820998503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to history.