Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000567346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa’s islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies, and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa’s islands for students and academics alike.
African Islands
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000567346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa’s islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies, and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa’s islands for students and academics alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000567346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed histories of African islands into a single synthesis, focused on multiple issues of common interest, among them human impacts on previously uninhabited ecologies, the role of islands in the growth of long-distance maritime trade networks, and the functioning of plantation economies based on the exploitation of unfree labour. Addressing and repairing the longstanding neglect of Africa in general studies of island colonization, settlement, and connectivity, it makes a distinctively African contribution to studies of island archaeology. The availability of this much-needed synthesis also opens up a better understanding of the significance of African islands in the continent's past as a whole. After contextualizing chapters on island archaeology as a field and an introduction to the variety of Africa’s islands and the archaeological research undertaken on them, the book focuses on four themes: arriving, altering, being, and colonizing and resisting. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to these themes, drawing on a broad range of evidence that goes beyond material remains to include genetics, comparative studies of the languages, textual evidence and oral histories, island ecologies, and more. African Islands provides an up-to-date synthesis and account of all aspects of archaeological research on Africa’s islands for students and academics alike.
African Islands
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Rochester Studies in African H
ISBN: 158046954X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast
Publisher: Rochester Studies in African H
ISBN: 158046954X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast
Island Africa
Author: Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002194433
Category : Africa
Languages : da
Pages : 287
Book Description
Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002194433
Category : Africa
Languages : da
Pages : 287
Book Description
Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt
West African Islands
Author: Alfred Burdon Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Africa in the Indian Ocean
Author: Tor Sellström
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Tor Sellström profiles the independent island states and the European dependencies in the African part of the Indian Ocean, their contemporary social, political and economic challenges, the wider international context and their relations with, in particular, Africa and the African Union.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Tor Sellström profiles the independent island states and the European dependencies in the African part of the Indian Ocean, their contemporary social, political and economic challenges, the wider international context and their relations with, in particular, Africa and the African Union.
Chocolate Islands
Author: Catherine Higgs
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.
African Islands and Enclaves
Author: Robin Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032754178
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Small territories and islands both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides a balance between enclaves and islands, between Indian and Atlantic Ocean territories.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032754178
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Small territories and islands both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides a balance between enclaves and islands, between Indian and Atlantic Ocean territories.
The Great African Island
Author: James Sibree
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands
Author: Charles W. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Madagascar, Mauritius and the Other East-African Islands
Author: Conrad Keller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description