African Family Archive The Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938

Name: African Family Archive The Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938
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ISBN: 9780197263082

ISBN-10: 0197263089

ISBN-13: 9780197263082

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adam Jones, Peter Sebald

List price: $150.00

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Conventional accounts of the Scramble for Africa tend to focus on European diplomacy and acts of African 'resistance'. We rarely find detailed accounts of what it meant to individual Africans to be turned almost overnight into colonial subjects. An African Family Archive presents a unique case: a letterbook ('Grand Livre Lolame') written in English by the Lawsons of Aneho, a small town on the coast of Togo. Although the Lawsons were not the only family in Africa to have kept an archive since the mid-nineteenth century, this is probably the first attempt to publish such a source in its entirety. This fascinating collection of over 700 documents allows us to follow the Lawsons week by week…

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.57" long x 1.39" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English