A companion to African history /

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Imprint:Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource ( xiii, 525 pages.)
Language:English
Series:Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.
Subject:Civilization.
Social conditions.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Africa -- History.
Africa -- Civilization.
Africa -- Social conditions.
Africa.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11714749
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Other authors / contributors:Worger, William H., editor.
Ambler, Charles H., editor.
Achebe, Nwando, 1970- editor.
ISBN:9781119063575
1119063574
9781119063551
1119063558
9781119063506
1119063507
9780470656310
9781119267850
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 11, 2018).
Other form:Print version: Companion to African history 1st edition. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2018 9780470656310
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / William H. Worger
  • Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht
  • Masculinities / Stephan F. Miescher
  • Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko
  • Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson
  • Women, authority and power in southeast Africa: the production and destruction of historical knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi and Ndwandwe / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
  • Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe
  • Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire C. 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 R. Schmidt
  • Africa and environmental history / Gregory H. Maddox
  • Health and medicine in African history / Karen E. 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 / Timothy Scarnecchia
  • The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet T. Weldemichael
  • The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding
  • Apartheid forgotten and remembered / 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.