The Making Of Modern Africa The Twentieth Century
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The Making Of Modern Africa The Twentieth Century
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Author : Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1986
The Making Of Modern Africa The Twentieth Century written by Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
This very popular text has been thoroughly revised to include the most up-to-date developments in research and historiography. Five distinguished historians of Africa interpret the major historical themes region by region. They provide a clear and comprehensive survey of the period, complemented by valuable maps and photographs.
Twentieth Century South Africa
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Twentieth Century South Africa written by Bill Freund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with History categories.
The twentieth century has brought considerable political, social, and economic change for South Africa. While many would choose to focus only on the issues of race, segregation, and apartheid, this book tries to capture another facet: its drive towards modernisation and industrialisation. While considering the achievements and failures of that drive, as well as how it related to ethnic and racial policy making, Bill Freund makes the economic data come alive by highlighting people and places. He proposes that South Africa in the twentieth century can actually be understood as a nascent developmental state, with economic development acting as a key motivating factor. As a unique history of South Africa in the twentieth century, this will appeal to anyone interested in a new interpretation of modern South African economic development or those in development studies searching for striking historical examples.
The Making Of Contemporary Africa
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Making Of Contemporary Africa written by Bill Freund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Africa categories.
¿A landmark in African historiography.... well planned and clearly written.¿ ¿John Lonsdale, Journal of African History This comprehensive yet accessible text critically traces the complex trajectory of African society, culture, economy, and politics across more than two centuries. Appearing nearly two decades after the previous edition was published, the third edition of The Making of Contemporary Africa has not only been revised throughout, but also includes two entirely new chapters: one specifically on the twenty-first century and one on postindependence cultural and social history.
The Making Of Modern Africa
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Author : Michael Twaddle
language : en
Publisher: Short Oxford History of the Modern World
Release Date : 2004
The Making Of Modern Africa written by Michael Twaddle and has been published by Short Oxford History of the Modern World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Africa categories.
The Making of Modern Africa describes and analyses the changing social, political and economic setting in which Africa's states and societies were shaped, first by the European takeovers of the nineteenth century, and then by the difficulties encountered after independence in the twentiethcentury.
Modern Africa
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Author : Basil Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Modern Africa written by Basil Davidson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with History categories.
Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows how much has been achieved since decolonization, and the mood of his new final chapter is hopeful and buoyant.
Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War
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Author : Howard W. French
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War written by Howard W. French and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe’s yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies sequestered away in the heart of West Africa. Creating a historical narrative that begins with the commencement of commercial relations between Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century and ends with the onset of World War II, Born in Blackness interweaves precise historical detail with poignant, personal reportage. In so doing, it dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures, from the unimaginably rich medieval emperors who traded with the Near East and beyond, to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers, to the ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage and profoundly altered the course of American history. While French cogently demonstrates the centrality of Africa to the rise of the modern world, Born in Blackness becomes, at the same time, a far more significant narrative, one that reveals a long-concealed history of trivialization and, more often, elision in depictions of African history throughout the last five hundred years. As French shows, the achievements of sovereign African nations and their now-far-flung peoples have time and again been etiolated and deliberately erased from modern history. As the West ascended, their stories—siloed and piecemeal—were swept into secluded corners, thus setting the stage for the hagiographic “rise of the West” theories that have endured to this day. “Capacious and compelling” (Laurent Dubois), Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton—and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world.
Making Of Modern Africa The Late Nineteenth Century To The Present Day
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Making Of Modern Africa The Late Nineteenth Century To The Present Day written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Africa categories.
A History Of The Excluded
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Author : James Leonard Giblin
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 2005
A History Of The Excluded written by James Leonard Giblin and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe's people came to see themselves as excluded from agricultural markets, access to medical services, schooling - in short, from all opportunity to escape the impoverishing trap of migrant labour. Focusing on individual men and women, the story is largely told in their own words. It traces their efforts both to defy and benefit from the most important event in the modern history of Africa - the imposition of state authority. North America: Ohio U Press
The Idea Of Development In Africa
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Author : Corrie Decker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Idea Of Development In Africa written by Corrie Decker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Business & Economics categories.
An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
Ben Enwonwu
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Author : Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2008
Ben Enwonwu written by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history. The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engaging new volume, Sylvester Ogbechie refutes this approach by examining the life and work of Ben Enwonwu (1917-94), a premier African modernist and pioneer whose career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of African art. In the decades between Enwonwu's birth and death, modernization produced new political structures and new forms of expression inAfrican cultures, inspiring important developments in modern African art. Within this context, Ogbechie evaluates important issues such as the role of Anglo-Nigerian colonial culture in the development of modern Nigerian art, andEnwonwu's involvement with international discourses of modernism in Europe, Africa, and the United States over a period of five decades. The author also interrogates Enwonwu's use of the radical politics of Negritude ideology to define modern African art against canonical interpretations of Euro-modernism; and the artist's visual and critical contributions to Pan Africanism, Nigerian nationalism, and postcolonial interpretations of African modernity. First and foremost an intellectual biography of Ben Enwonwu as a modern African artist, rather than an exhaustive critical exploration of the discourse of modernism in African art history or in modern art in general, Ben Enwonwu situates the artist historically and interprets his work in ways that surpass traditional discourse around the canon of modern art. Sylvester Ogbechie is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.