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  • The Spiritual in the Secular

    Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa

    Edited by Patrick Harries, David Maxwell ...
    David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths.This collection of essays explores the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionaries to Africa ... Read more

    $45.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spiritual in the Secular

    Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa

    Edited by Patrick Harries, David Maxwell ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)
    David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths.This collection of essays explores the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionaries to Africa ... Read more

    $48.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science, Africa and Europe

    Processing Information and Creating Knowledge

    Edited by Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn, Patrick Harries ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

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    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
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    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • Multilingualism

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    by John C. Maher ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

    Edited by John Parker, Richard Reid ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is ... Read more

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  • African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

    by Mhoze Chikowero ...
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  • How Societies Are Born

    Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

    by Jan Vansina ...
    Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In ... Read more

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  • The Precolonial State in West Africa

    Building Power in Dahomey

    by J. Cameron Monroe ...
    This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an ... Read more

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  • The Equality of Believers

    Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa

    by Richard Elphick ...
    Series series Reconsiderations in Southern African History
    From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa’s ruling white minority and its black majority. The Equality of Believers reconfigures the narrative of race in South Africa by exploring the pivotal role played by these missionaries and their teachings in shaping that nation’s history.The missionaries ... Read more

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  • East African Societies

    by Aylward Shorter ...
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