Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: The Sierra Leone Creoles, 1870-1900
Author: More Auspicious Shores
Author: Caree A. BantonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Astrological Geomancy in Africa
Author: J. A. Abayomi ColePublisher:
ISBN: 9780916299125
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
The Kongo Kingdom
Author: Koen BostoenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474187
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black CulturePublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The African Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Author: UnescoReligion Index Two
Author: Ethnicity and the Colonial State
Author: Alexander KeesePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004307354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Religion Index Two: Author and editor index
Author: Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East
Author: Philip Shukry KhouryPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520070806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Offering a fuller understanding of the complexities and particular patterns of state formation in regions where tribes have exercised a significant influence, this volume focuses on the continuing existence of tribal structures and systems in contemporary times, within contemporary nation-states. The contributors offer hypotheses as to why these groups have managed to survive and what impact they have had on modern states ... --backcover.