Author: Peter C. W. Gutkind
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112415183
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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No detailed description available for "The Royal Capital of Buganda".

Author: Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind
Publisher: Hague, Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Kampala (Uganda)
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761815204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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First published in 1972, Africa and the World places the African past within the wider context of world events, while providing a wealth of geographical and ethnographic information about the continent. The book specifically focuses on the pre-colonial and early colonial history of sub-Saharan Africa. Designed for those interested in the impact of Europe on the non-Western world, the volume provides an account of the major economic and social factors that have shaped African history. Information from studies in anthropology, archaeology, history, and art are included as well. Africa and the World is an essential and accessible resource for those interested in world history or African studies.

Author: Roger Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134566476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how such responses reflected and shaped social attitudes towards sexuality and social relationships of class, gender, generation and race.

Author: John Parker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520395689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states that have shaped cultures across the African continent. This groundbreaking book offers an innovative and thought-provoking overview that takes us from ancient Egypt and Nubia to the Zulu Kingdom almost two thousand years later. Each chapter is written by a leading historian, interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including oral histories and recent archaeological findings. Great Kingdoms of Africa is a timely and vital book for anyone who wants to expand their knowledge of Africa's rich history.

Author: Stephen and Downs Reyna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135300739
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history, and anthropology. The essays combine to challenge the notion developed by social theorists such as Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, and Engels that war will diminish with the formation and the perpetuation of a capitalist economy and industry. The development of capitalist states, and the nefarious and violent processes which must occur to reproduce capitalism, are rarely realized and then infrequently analyzed. Many western and ethnocentric scholarly representations of war succeed in hiding the deadly developments that occur as a result of capitalist state formation and relations.

Author: Stephen P. Reyna
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9056995898
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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This newest volume in the War and Society series questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history and anthropology.

Author: David Anderson
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 0852557612
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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A selection of papers first delivered at the conference on Africa's Urban Past, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.

Author: Rosalind E. Boyd
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100098754X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the debate around the international role of the working class and other dominated classes such as the rural and urban poor. The contributions discuss whether Marx’s original version of the revolutionary role of workers can still be sustained. They examine the response of workers to the globalisation of production, to structural unemployment in the industrialized world and to the changing composition of the workforce in the industrialising periphery. The volume questions the historic starting points in the theorization of international labour.

Author: Kwaku Obosu-Mensah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429853335
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice. Using three theoretical models, the author tells us who is more likely to be involved in urban agriculture. In line with this, he explains why, contrary to expectations, in Ghana there are more males than females involved in urban agriculture. The author also addresses issues such as the influence of social inequality and the effects of social networks on urban agriculture. Furthermore, he identifies the problems urban cultivators encounter as city farmers and how they cope with such problems. Finally, the author predicts the future trend in urban agriculture. This thought-provoking book will be of interest not only to public policy makers and planners, but also to students and teachers of African studies, urban studies, and sociology.