Cosmopolitan Africa 1700-1875

Name: Cosmopolitan Africa 1700-1875
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ISBN: 9780199764709

ISBN-10: 0199764700

ISBN-13: 9780199764709

Edition: 2012

Authors: Trevor R. Getz

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Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings,forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.31" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Maps and Figures


About the Author


Series Introduction


Introduction



Ordering their Worlds


A Place to Begin


Spirit Power and State Power in Buganda


Xhosa Worlds: Homestead, Neighborhood, Kingdom, Ancestors


Matriclans and Entrepreneurs in the Making of the Asante State


Titles and Lineages in Igho-Speaking Societies


Tunis under the Beys


Reining In Greed and Anarchy in BaKongo and Jaga State and Society


Beatriz as Saint Anthony



Global Africa in an Oceanic Era


An Oceanic Era


Mediterranean Africa


Atlantic Africa


Indian Ocean Africa


The Chronicles of Pate and Nineteenth-Century Swahili Identity



Spiritual Belief and Practice in Cosmopolitan Africa


African "World" and African "Traditional" Religions


African Islam in the Eighteenth Century


African Christianity and Protestant Evangelism


The Xhosa Cattle Killing



African Economies and the Industrial Revolution


Production and Productivity in Late Eighteenth-Century Africa


Africans and the Industrial Revolution


Settlers, Peasants, and Plantations


Muhammad Ali's Egypt



Africans Engage the West


Men and Women in the Middle?


Egyptian Intellectuals on France and Islam


The Abbï¿½ Boilat


James Africanus Horton


The "Educated Men" of the Fante Confederation


Jan Tzatzoe in Britain


Toward Colonialism?


Index