An edition of African world histories
(2012)
African world histories
cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875
by Trevor R. Getz
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African world histories: cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875
2012, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds
A place to begin --
Spirit power and state power in Burganda --
Xhosa worlds: homestead, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors --
Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state --
Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies --
Imperial Tunis --
Reigning in greed and anarchy in Bakongo and Jaga state and society --
Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony -- -- Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era
An Oceanic era --
Mediterranean Africa --
Atlantic Africa --
Indian Ocean Africa --
Feature: the chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity -- -- Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa
African "world" and African "traditional" religions --
African Islam in the eighteenth century --
African Christianity and Protestant evangelism --
Feature: the Xhosa cattle-killing -- -- Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution
Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa --
Africans and the industrial revolution --
Settlers, peasants, and plantations --
Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt -- -- Chapter 5: Africans write back
Men and women in the middle? --
Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam --
The Abbe Boilat --
James Africanus Horton --
The "educated men" of the Fante Confederation --
Jan Tzatzoe in Britain --
Towards colonialism?
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