East Africa : an introductory history / Robert. M. Maxon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxon, Robert M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, East--History.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

3rd and rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History , Robert M.Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.With revised sections and a new preface, this comprehensive text surveys East Africa's political, economic, and social history from pre-colonial to modern times.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

East African Geography

Topography

Climate

Vegitation and Soil

The Peopleing of East Africa to c.1000 A.D.

Early Stone Age

Middle Stone Age

Late Stone Age

Populations and Languages of East Africa

Food Production and Iron Working

The Early Iron Age and Bantu Migrations

Early Nilotic Migrations

Population Interaction and Absorption

Suggestions for Further Reading

The East African Coast to 1800

The Coastal Plain

Azania: The Coast to 1000 A.D.

The Swahili Period: 1000-1500

The Coming of Portuguese Dominance: 1500-1600

The Decline of Portuguese Control: 1600-1700

The Omani Period at the Coast: 1700-1800

The East African Interior: c.1000 to 1650

Uganda

The Rise of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms: Bunyoro-Kitara

Origin of the Kingdom of Nkore

Buganda Origins

Lwoo Migrations into Uganda

Lwoo Migrations within East Africa

Kenya

Highlands Nilotes

Plains Nilotes

Bantu and River-Lake Nilotes of Western Kenya: the Luhya and Luo

The Thagicu Peoples

Mainland Tanzania

West Lake Region: the Haya States

West Central Tanzania: the Ntemi Chieftaincies

Eastern Tanzania

The East African Interior from 1650 to 1850

Bunyoro-Kitara

Kabarega and the Rejuvenation of Bunyoro

Buganda: Territorial Expansion

Centralization and Strengthening of the Monarchy in Buganda

The Kingdom of Nkore

The Kingdom of Toro

Lwoo-Speaking Communities

Karamojong-Teso Movements

Western Kenya: the Luhya, Luo, and Gusii

The Thagicu Peoples: Kikuyu and Kamba

Northwestern Tanzania

Northeastern Tanzania

Southern and Western Tanzania: the Coming of the Ngoni.

Long Distance Trade in Tanzania

West-Central Tanzania: Trade and Political Centralization

East Africa and the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century

Oman and the East African Coast

Seyyid Said and Zanzibar

Economic Impact of Nineteenth Century Trade

Growth of External Commerce

Anti-Slave Trade Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa

Missionary Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa

Christian Missions and Buganda

European Adventurers as Precursors to European Involvment in East Africa

The Scramble for East Africa

Britain and Zanzibar: "Informal Empire"

Egypt and the Scramble for East Africa

Germany Enters East Africa

Charted Companies and the Scramble for Uganda

From Chartered Companies to Protectorates

The Establishment of European Rule: 1890s to 1914

Conquest and Resistance

The Ecological Catastrophe

Beginning Administration

Economic and Social Considerations

Britain and Buganda

Buganda Sub-imperialism

The Buganda Agreement of 1900

Further Resistance to British Rule

Further Expansion of Colonial Rule

The Colonial Economy

Missions and Western Education

The Uganda Railway

The Conquest of Kenya

European Settlement and Land

Social and Political Dominance of the European Settlers

German East Africa

The Conquest of German East Africa

The Maji Maji Rebellion

Reform and Development Under Rechenberg

African Improvement and Education

Zanzibar

East Africa from the First World War to the Second: 1914-1939

Tanganyika

The War and German East Africa

The Start of British Rule in Tanganyika.

Sir Donald Cameron and Indirect Rule

The Depression and After

Improvement and African Politics

Peasant or Plantation Agriculture for Uganda

African Discontent and Politics

Education

Uganda's Asians

Kenya Africans and the War

Toward European Domination

The Asian Question

African Political Activism after the War

Settler Politics, Closer Union, and the Colonial Office

African Protest in the 1930s

The Rise of Nationalism and Achievement of Independence in East Africa: 1939-1963

World War II and East Africa

Development and the Post-war Economy

Colonial Policy and African Politics after the War

TANU and the Triumph of Mass Nationalism

Popular Discontent in Buganda

Sir Andrew Cohen and the "Kabaka Crisis"

National Politics and Buganda Separatism

Toward Independence

The War and the Mitchell Era

The Coming of Mau Mau

The Emergency

Toward African Self-Government

Evolution of Political Parties

Independent East Africa, 1960s to 1990s

Independence and Dependency

Attempts to Achieve Closer Cooperation in East Africa

Tanzania

Establishment of a Republic

Tanganyika to Tanzania

The One-Party State

Socialism and Self-reliance: the Arusha Declaration

Building a Socialist Tanzania

Retreat from Ujamaa

Foreign Affairs

Cooperation and Conflict with Buganda

Political Turmoil and the Kabaka's Downfall

Uganda's New Republic

Obote's Fall and the Amin Dictatorship

Post-Amin Uganda

KANU and the Unitary State.

Two-Party Politics: the KPU

Kenya in the 1970s

The Moi Presidency

End of the Moi Era

Selected Bibliography

Glossary of African Terms

Index

Maps

Main Physical Features of East Africa

Simplified Vegetation Patterns of East Africa

Modern Distribution of Languages in East Africa

Bantu Languages of East Africa

Distribution of the Early Iron Age

Dating the Early Iron Age

Bantu Migrations

East African Coast

West-Central Uganda

Lwoo Migrations to East Africa

Highlands and Plains Nilotes before 1800

Western Kenya

Modern Distribution of Thagicu-Speaking Peoples

Buganda Expansion, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

Teso Movements

Western Kenya in the Nineteenth Century

Ngoni in Tanzania

Nineteenth Century Trade Routes

Partition of East Africa to 1895

Colonial Uganda

Colonial Kenya

German East Africa.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-933202-83-1

OCLC:

794702218