Colonial rule and crisis in Equatorial Africa
Subtitle: Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940
By: Christopher J. Gray.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora,; [v. 13]
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Gabon -- History -- 1839-1960.; Gabon -- Colonial influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Developing a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equatorial Africa; title: 2 Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s; title: 3 "The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality; title: 4 The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality; title: 5 Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Triumph in Southern Gabon, ca. 1890-1920; title: 6 The Imposition of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940; title: 7 Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers; title: Conclusion; title: Sources and Bibliography; title: I. Informants; title: II. Archives; title: III. Unpublished Works; title: IV. Journals; title: V. Books and Articles-Nineteenth Century; title: VI. Books-Twentieth Century; title: VII. Articles-Twentieth Century.