Author: T. A. SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Bibliography of Published Works by and about David Livingstone, 1843-1975
Author: T. A. SimonsDavid Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease
Author: Sjoerd RijpmaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004293736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant. David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease is an unusual book. After a close examination of Livingstone’s writings and comparative reading of contemporary authors, Sjoerd Rijpma has been able to draw cautious conclusions about the relatively favourable conditions of health and nutrition in southern and central Africa during the pre-colonial period. His findings shed new light on the medical history of Sub-Saharan Africa. The surprise awaiting travellers in and also before 19th century Africa was that the inhabitants of the interior, even the ‘slaves’, were healthier and better fed than many of their contemporaries in Europe’s Industrial Revolution. “An impressive piece of scholarship, truly forensic in its close reading and re-reading of Livingstone’s published works and those of other travellers during the same era, clearly a labour of love which has taken years to complete” (Joanna Lewis).
Livingstone Letters, 1843 to 1872
Author: David LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The African Book Publishing Record
Author: The Empire Strikes Back?
Author: Andrew S. ThompsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317873890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.
Bibliographies for African Studies, 1976-1979
Author: Publisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Missionary Work in Africa in Eugène Casalis’s Time and Beyond
Author: Jamary MolumeliPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
British influence on what was to become the British Empire and French influence on French speaking Africa have been extensively explored so far, but few books focus on French missions in Britain’s sphere of influence. The French missionary Eugène Casalis represents a perhaps unique experience of a man taking part in the nation-building process in an African country, Lesotho, which belonged to London’s ‘reserve’. Casalis was to become the King’s special advisor and is still hailed today as one of the few men who built the country. Based on the research of a dozen African and European academics who convened in Morija in 2012 to commemorate the bicentenary of that great Protestant humanist and to analyse “Missionary Work in Africa in Eugene Casalis’s Time and Beyond”, this book will provide fresh and stimulating material for readers interested in colonial and post-colonial studies, missions and religion, and cultural and historical exchanges between the Southern part of the African continent and Great Britain.
Bibliographies for African Studies, 1970-1986
Author: Yvette SchevenPublisher: London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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