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Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history / edited by Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn & Klaas Van Walraven.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African dynamics ; 2.
- African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government, Resistance to--Africa--History.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Revolutions--Africa--History.
- Revolutions.
- Violence--Africa--History.
- Violence.
- Decolonization--Africa--History.
- Decolonization.
- Africa--History, Military.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa--Ethnic relations.
- Europe--Colonies--Africa--History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts.
- Contents:
- Contents; Maps, figures, tables and photographs; Preface; 1 Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES; PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE; PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY; List of authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46687-1
- 9786610466870
- 1-4175-0717-9
- 90-474-0162-X
- OCLC:
- 191935788
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047401629 DOI
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