Nation as Grand Narrative

Wale Adebanwi

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 70
• Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of natio... Lees meer

White Chief, Black Lords

Thomas V McClendon

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 46
• A study of colonial Natal, focused on the contradictions related to indirect rule, the legacy of which continues to inform the political and social cl... Lees meer

Decolonizing African Studies

Toyin Falola

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 93
• This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge syst... Lees meer

Voices of the Poor in Africa

Elizabeth Isichei

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 12
• An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather t... Lees meer

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 47
• A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural s... Lees meer

Constructions of Belonging

Axel Harneit-Sievers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 23
• Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes intera... Lees meer

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Jennifer Lofkrantz

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 97
• Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pio... Lees meer

Indirect Rule in South Africa

J C Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 33
• A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indi... Lees meer

IRA Aldridge

Bernth Lindfors

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 28
• Ira Aldridge -- a black New Yorker -- was one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest actors. He performed abroad for forty-three years, winning more ... Lees meer

Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 69
• In Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare offers an innovative perspective on the idea and reality of civil society. Mobilizin... Lees meer

Indirect Rule in South Africa

J C Myers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indi... Lees meer

Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

Abiodun (Person) Alao

• Hardcover | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Lees meer

Opposing Apartheid on Stage

Tyler Fleming

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 89
• A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural histo... Lees meer

Ira Aldridge

Bernth Lindfors

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 59
• This book describes the "glory years" of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty... Lees meer

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana

Gareth Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 18
• An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative er... Lees meer

Not So Plain as Black and White

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insigh... Lees meer

Ethnicity in Zimbabwe

Enocent Msindo

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 55
• A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Nde... Lees meer

Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital

Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 77
• Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these studies are rooted in the recognit... Lees meer

Not So Plain as Black and White

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 19
• Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 187... Lees meer

Building a Peaceful Nation

Paul Bjerk

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 63
• In the early 1960s, nationalist politicians established in Tanzania a stable government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil. Paul Bje... Lees meer

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 21
• African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It pre... Lees meer

African Islands

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 83
• Islands and island chains like Cabo Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often sidelined in contemporary understandings of Africa as mainland nation-state... Lees meer

Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius

William Kelleher Storey

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 3
• An analysis of the historical and scientific effects of technology transfer from an imperial to colonial setting. Science and Power in Colonial Maurit... Lees meer

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World

Solimar Otero

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora | nr. 45
• A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Aguda com... Lees meer