East Africa
Subtitle: an introductory history
By: Robert M. Maxon.
Edition: 2nd and rev. ed.
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Morgantown
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Africa, East -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: East African Geography. Topography -- Climate -- Vegetation and Soil -- The Peopling of East Africa to c. 1000 A.D. Early Stone Age -- Middle Stone Age -- Late Stone Age -- Populations and Languages of East Africa -- Food Production and Iron Working -- The Early Iron Age and Bantu Migrations -- Early Nilotic Migrations -- Population Interaction and Absorption -- The East African Coast to 1800. The Coastal Plain -- Azania: the Coast to 1000 A.D -- The Swahili Period: 1000-1500 -- The Coming of Portuguese Dominance: 1500-1600 -- The Decline of Portuguese Control: 1600-1700 -- The Omani Period at the Coast: 1700-1800 -- The East African Interior: c. 1000 to 1650. Uganda. The Rise of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms: Bunyoro-Kitara -- Origin of the Kingdom of Nkore -- Buganda Origins -- Lwoo Migrations into Uganda -- Lwoo Migrations within East Africa -- Kenya. Highlands Nilotes -- Plains Nilotes -- Bantu and River-Lake Nilotes of Western Kenya: the Luhya and Luo -- The Thagicu Peoples -- Mainland Tanzania. West Lake Region: the Haya States -- West Central Tanzania: the Ntemi Chieftaincies / Eastern Tanzania -- The East African Interior from the Mid-Seventeenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries. Uganda. Bunyoro-Kitara -- Kaberega and the Rejuvenation of Bunyoro -- Buganda: Territorial Expansion -- Centralization and Strengthening of the Monarchy in Buganda -- The Kingdom of Nkore -- The Kingdom of Toro -- Lwoo-Speaking Communities -- Karamojong-Teso Movements -- Kenya. Highlands Nilotes -- Plains Nilotes -- Western Kenya: the Luhya, Luo, and Gusii -- The Thagicu Peoples: Kikuyu and Kamba -- Mainland Tanzania. Northwestern Tanzania -- Northeastern Tanzania -- Southern and Western Tanzania: the Coming of the Ngoni -- Long Distance Trade in Tanzania -- West-Central Tanzania: Trade and Political Centralization -- East Africa and the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century. Oman and the East African Coast -- Seyyid Said and Zanzibar -- Economic Impact of Nineteenth Century Trade -- Growth of External Commerce -- Anti-Slave Trade Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa -- Missionary Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa -- Christian Missions and Buganda -- European Adventurers as Precursors of European Involvement in East Africa -- The Scramble for East Africa. Britain and Zanzibar: “Informal Empire” -- Egypt and the Scramble for East Africa -- Germany Enters East Africa -- Chartered Companies and the Scramble for Uganda -- From Chartered Companies to Protectorates -- The Establishment of European Rule: 1890s to 1914. Conquest and Resistance -- The Ecological Catastrophe -- Beginning Administration -- Economic and Social Considerations -- Uganda. Britain and Buganda -- Buganda Sub-imperialism -- The Buganda Agreement of 1900 -- Further Resistance to British Rule -- Further Expansion of Colonial Rule -- The Colonial Economy -- Missions and Western Education -- Kenya. The Uganda Railway -- The Conquest of Kenya -- European Settlement and Land -- The Colonial Economy -- Missions and Western Education -- Social and Political Dominance of the European Settlers -- German East Africa. The Conquest of German East Africa -- The Colonial Economy -- The Maji Maji Rebellion -- Reform and Development under Rechenberg -- African Improvement and Education -- Zanzibar -- East Africa from the First World War to the Second: 1914-39. Tanganyika. The War and German East Africa -- The Start of British Rule in Tanganyika -- Sir Donald Cameron and Indirect Rule -- The Depression and After -- Improvement and African Politics -- Uganda. Peasant or Plantation Agriculture for Uganda -- African Discontent and Politics -- Education -- Uganda’s Asians -- The Colonial Economy -- Kenya. Kenya Africans and the War -- Toward European Domination -- The Asian Question -- African Political Activism after the War -- Settler Politics, Closer Union, and the Colonial Office -- The Colonial Economy -- African Protest in the 1930s -- Zanzibar -- The Rise of Nationalism and Achievement of Independence in East Africa: 1939-1963. World War II and East Africa -- Tanganyika. Development and the Post-war Economy --Colonial Policy and African Politics after the War -- TANU and the Triumph of Mass Nationalism -- The Colonial Economy -- Uganda. Popular Discontent in Buganda -- Sir Andrew Cohen and the “Kabaka Crisis” -- National Politics and Buganda Separatism -- Toward Independence -- The Colonial Economy -- Kenya. The War and the Mitchell Era -- The Coming of Mau Mau -- The Emergency -- Toward African Self-Government -- The Colonial Economy -- Zanzibar. Evolution of Political Parties -- Toward Independence -- Independent East Africa, 1960s to 1990s. Independence and Dependency -- Attempts to Achieve Closer Cooperation in East Africa -- Tanzania. Establishment of a Republic -- Tanganyika to Tanzania -- The One-Party State -- Socialism and Self-reliance: the Arusha Declaration -- Building a Socialist Tanzania -- Retreat from Ujamaa -- Foreign Affairs -- Uganda. Cooperation and Conflict with Buganda -- Political Turmoil and the Kabaka’s Downfall -- Uganda’s New Republic -- Obote’s Fall and the Amin Dictatorship -- Post-Amin Uganda -- Foreign Affairs -- Kenya. KANU and the Unitary State -- Two-Party Politics: the KPU -- Kenya in the 1970s -- The Moi Presidency -- Foreign Affairs -- Glossary of African terms.