Author: Ernest Graham Ingham
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Largely composed of extracts from John Clarkeson's diary, Sierra Leone reports and mission records, this account includes an appendix which discussed the state of the colony up to the time of first publication in 1884.
Sierra Leone After a Hundred Years
Author: Ernest Graham Ingham
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Largely composed of extracts from John Clarkeson's diary, Sierra Leone reports and mission records, this account includes an appendix which discussed the state of the colony up to the time of first publication in 1884.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Largely composed of extracts from John Clarkeson's diary, Sierra Leone reports and mission records, this account includes an appendix which discussed the state of the colony up to the time of first publication in 1884.
Catalog of the Sierra Leone Collection, Fourah Bay College Library, University of Sierra Leone
Author: Fourah Bay College. Library
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
Almost Home
Author: Ruma Chopra
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
Moorings
Author: Josiah Blackmore
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.
The Politics of Elite Culture
Author: Abner Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520358597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This title focuses on the dramatic process underlying the development of cultural mystique in the articulation of elite organization. The symbolic beliefs and practices involved act to reconcile, camouflage, or mystify a major contradiction in the development and functioning of elite groups, a contradiction between their universalistic functions and particularistic interests, between their duties to serve wider publics and their simultaneous endeavor to promote their own sectional power. Concentrating on the detailed, experimental study of one power elite within a modern small-scale nation-state--Sierra Leone--Cohen analyzes these processes. But his findings are systematically worked out within a general, cross-cultural comparative perspective, and he thereby further develops his earlier formulations about the instrumental functions of culture in politcal organization. Culture is analyzed in terms of symbolic forms, symbolic functions, and dramaturgical techniques. Politico-cultural causation is explored as it operates in chains of dramatic performances on different levels of social organization. Familiar, everyday symbolic events are taken out of their ordinary ideological sequences and, as Brecht would put it, thrown into crisis by showing their involvement in major power struggles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520358597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This title focuses on the dramatic process underlying the development of cultural mystique in the articulation of elite organization. The symbolic beliefs and practices involved act to reconcile, camouflage, or mystify a major contradiction in the development and functioning of elite groups, a contradiction between their universalistic functions and particularistic interests, between their duties to serve wider publics and their simultaneous endeavor to promote their own sectional power. Concentrating on the detailed, experimental study of one power elite within a modern small-scale nation-state--Sierra Leone--Cohen analyzes these processes. But his findings are systematically worked out within a general, cross-cultural comparative perspective, and he thereby further develops his earlier formulations about the instrumental functions of culture in politcal organization. Culture is analyzed in terms of symbolic forms, symbolic functions, and dramaturgical techniques. Politico-cultural causation is explored as it operates in chains of dramatic performances on different levels of social organization. Familiar, everyday symbolic events are taken out of their ordinary ideological sequences and, as Brecht would put it, thrown into crisis by showing their involvement in major power struggles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
Author: Yaniv Roznai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198768796
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Using theoretical and comparative approaches, Roznai establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on substantive limitations, looking at their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to constitutional amendment powers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198768796
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Using theoretical and comparative approaches, Roznai establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on substantive limitations, looking at their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to constitutional amendment powers.
The African Poor
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521348775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521348775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.
Abridged Decimal Classification and Relativ Index
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification, Dewey decimal
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification, Dewey decimal
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Author: Peter Linebaugh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520260007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
History.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520260007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
History.