A Modern History of Tanganyika (African Studies, Series Number 25) - Softcover
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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Book Description:
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.
About the Author:
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 0521296129
- ISBN 13 9780521296120
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages636
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