African world histories
Subtitle: cosmopolitan Africa, c.1700-1875
By: Trevor R. Getz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780199764709
Subjects: Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds; title: A place to begin --; title: Spirit power and state power in Burganda --; title: Xhosa worlds: homestead, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors --; title: Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state --; title: Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies --; title: Imperial Tunis --; title: Reigning in greed and anarchy in Bakongo and Jaga state and society --; title: Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony -- -- Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era; title: An Oceanic era --; title: Mediterranean Africa --; title: Atlantic Africa --; title: Indian Ocean Africa --; title: Feature: the chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity -- -- Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa; title: African "world" and African "traditional" religions --; title: African Islam in the eighteenth century --; title: African Christianity and Protestant evangelism --; title: Feature: the Xhosa cattle-killing -- -- Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution; title: Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa --; title: Africans and the industrial revolution --; title: Settlers, peasants, and plantations --; title: Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt -- -- Chapter 5: Africans write back; title: Men and women in the middle? --; title: Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam --; title: The Abbe Boilat --; title: James Africanus Horton --; title: The "educated men" of the Fante Confederation --; title: Jan Tzatzoe in Britain --; title: Towards colonialism?