Personality and political culture in modern Africa
Subtitle: studies presented to Professor Harold G. Marcus
By: edited by Melvin E. Page ... [et al. ; Jay Spaulding ... et al.].
Contributors: Marcus, Harold G.; Page, Melvin E. 1944-; Spaulding, Jay.
Series: Boston University papers on Africa ;; 9
Publisher: African Studies Center, Boston University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Marcus, Harold G.; Personality and politics -- Africa.; Political psychology.; Personality and culture -- Africa.; Political culture -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Medieval Nubian dynastic succession -- Jay Spaulding; title: Orality, state literacy and political culture in Ethiopia : translating the Ras Kassa registers -- James C. McCann; title: Constructing colonial power and political collaboration in Italian Eritrea -- Irma Taddia; title: On the origins of mass nationalism in urban Tanzania : Muslim townspeople and petition protest during the interwar years -- Laird Jones; title: Religious and ethnic kaleidoscope or a north/south frontier : Dinka/Baqqara relations across the Kir/Bahr al-Arab River -- Stephanie F. Beswick; title: Pan-African dialectics : Ethiopia, Africa and the African diaspora, 1941-1974 -- Fikru Gebrekidan; title: Personality and political culture in Ethiopian history : the case of Emperor Tewodros -- Donald Crummey; title: "French Africa" : Faidherbe, Archinard and Coppolani, the 'creators' of Senegal, Soudan and Mauritania -- David Robinson; title: Nineteenth century diplomacy on Mount Kilimanjaro : Rindi of Moshi reconsidered -- James Cox; title: Gambeila : an imperial anachronism -- Robert O. Collins; title: Settlers and the state : a political biography of W.H. Timcke -- Tony Woods; title: Ras Welde Li'ul and the establishment of Qwaran ascendance in mid-eighteenth century Ethiopia -- LaVerle Berry; title: Reassessment of Lij Iyasu's political career, with particular emphasis upon his fall -- Tibebe Eshete; title: Tales of Yoseph and Woransa : Gedeo experiences in the era of the Italo-Ethiopian war -- Charles McClellan; title: Haile Sellassie's hands-off direct rule : Blata Ayele Gebre and the Hareri Kulub Movement of 1948 -- Tim Carmichael.