Spatial Factor in African History : The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual.
Title:
Spatial Factor in African History : The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual.
Author:
Howard, Allen M.
ISBN:
9781433707575
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Titles and Locations of Maps and other Figures -- Introduction: African History and Social Space in Africa (Allen M. Howard and Richard M. Shain) -- Nodes, Networks, Landscapes, and Regions: Reading the Social History of Tropical Africa 1700s-1920 (Allen M. Howard) -- "Region" as Historical Production: Narrative Maps from the Western Serengeti, Tanzania (Jan Bender Shetler) -- Mobility, Genealogical Memory, and Constructions of Social Space in Northern Gabon (John M. Cinnamon) -- The Disappearing District? Territorial Transformation in Southern Gabon 1850-1950 (Christopher Gray) -- The Salt That Binds: The Historical Geography of a Central Nigerian Regional Identity (Richard M. Shain) -- Habitation and Warfare Strategies in 19th Century Mande-a View from the Kafu (Jan Jansen) -- Re-Marking on the Past: Spatial Structures and Dynamics in the Sierra Leone-Guinea Plain, 1860-1920s (Allen M. Howard) -- Abstracts -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
In this collection authors apply spatial analysis to case studies of social, economic, and political dynamics in West, Central, and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Also included is a lengthy essay re-interpreting tropical Africa, 1800-1930, using spatial theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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