A Modern History of Tanganyika (African Studies, Series Number 25) - Hardcover
This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particularl attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitlaism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesise their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany.
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A comprehensive and fully-documented history of Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania) from 1800 to 1961, concentrating especially on the colonial period. Brings together research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out over the last 20 years.
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John Iliffe is Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College. He is the author of several books on Africa, including A Modern History of Tanganyika (Cambridge, 1979) and The African Poor: A History (Cambridge, 1988), which was awarded the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association of the United States.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0521220246
- ISBN 13 9780521220248
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages616
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Book Description Condition: very good. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. xvi,616 pp. Library stamp. Paper library ticket on spine. - This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania), dealing mainly with the colonial period. It draws on the latest research and on evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany. Contents : List of maps and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Terminology; Abbreviations; 1. Intentions; 2. Tanganyika in 1800; 3. The nineteenth century; 4. The German conquest; 5. Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890-1914; 6. The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905-7; 7. Religious and cultural change before 1914; 8. Fortunes of war; 9. The origins of rural capitalism; 10. The creation of tribes; 11. The crisis of colonial society, 1929-45; 12. Townsmen and workers; 13. The African Association, 1929-48; 14. The new colonialism; 15. The new politics, 1945-55; 16. The nationalist victory, 1955-61; Bibliography; Index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780521220248. Keywords : AFRICA, Seller Inventory # 283212
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Book Description Hardcover. brown boards. book xvi, 616 pgs. olive & bw illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Pages appear clean. A nice copy. "This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particular attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitalism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesize their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany."--Pubisher. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. edge-wear to covers; bumping to corners. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID sticker to lower spine; plastic scufffed). Seller Inventory # 184426
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