Recasting the past : history writing and political work in modern Africa /
Peterson, Derek R.,1971-
Macola, Giacomo.
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession / Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola --- Part one. Creative lives, creative writing. Chapter 1. I. B. Akinyele and Early Yoruba Print Culture / Karin Barber -- Chapter 2. The War of the Books: Petros Lamula and the Cultural History of African Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Natal / Paul La Hausse De Lalouvière -- Chapter 3. 'When You Shake a Tree': The Precolonial and the Postcolonial in Northern Namibian History / Patricia Hayes -- Chapter 4. Imagining the Nation: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula between Politics and History / Giacomo Macola --- Part two. Historical entanglements. Chapter 5. Law, Polities, and Inference / Richard Rathbone -- Chapter 6. Asante Origins, Egypt, and the Near East: An Idea and Its History / T. C. Mccaskie -- Chapter 7. In Pursuit of the 'Higher Medievalism': Local History and Politics in Kilimanjaro / Emma Hunter --- Part three. Dissident history. Chapter 8. States of Mind: Political History and the Rwenzururu Kingdom in Western Uganda / Derek R. Peterson -- Chapter 9. A Community of Suffering/ Narratives of War and Exile in the Zambian Lumpa Church / David M. Gordon -- Part four. Democracy and historical argument. Chapter 10. Merging Ethnic Histories in Senegal: Whose Moral Community? / Etienne Smith -- Chapter 11. The King of the Mijikenda and Other Stories about the Kaya: Heritage, Politics, and Histories in Multiparty Kenya / Justin Willis -- Chapter 12. Writing Competitive Patriotisms in Eastern Africa / John Lonsdale.
Historiography
Historiography
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Geschichtsschreibung
Politik
Geschichtsschreibung.
Politik.