Steven Salm / Falola African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-58046-637-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 21, 436 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steven Salm, Steven

Falola, Toyin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sandwith, Corinne

Feremenga, Doug T.

Ross, Eric

Muller-Friedman, Fatima

Murunga, Godwin R.

Genova, James

Rich, Jeremy

Otiso, Kefa M.

Fourchard, Laurent

DeLancey, Mark Dike

Amutabi, Maurice Nyamanga

RaLph, Michael

Eno, Omar A.

Ekali, Thomas Ngomba

Visser, Wessel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Moving East, Facing West: Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto Empire - Mark Dike DeLancey
Oppressive Impressioins, Architectural Expressioins: The Poetics of French Colonial (Ad)vantage, Regarding Africa - Michael RaLph
"Just Build it Modern": Post-Apartheid Spaces on Namibia's Urban Frontier - Fatima Muller-Friedman
Colonial Urbanization and Urban Management in Kenya - Kefa M. Otiso
"Inherently Unhygienic Races": Plague and the Origins of Settler Dominance in Nairobi, 1899-1907 - Godwin R. Murunga
Urbanization and Afrikaner Class Formation: The Mine Workers' Union and the Search for a Cultural Identity - Wessel Visser
The Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit- Bourgeois Elite, South Africa 1935-50 - Corinne Sandwith
Where Every Language Is Heard: Atlantic Commerce, West African and Asian Migrants, and Town Society in Libreville, ca. 1860-1914 - Jeremy Rich
Captured and Steeped in Colonial Dynamics and Legacy: The Case of Isiolo Town in Kenya - Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi
From Marabout Republics to Autonomous Rural Communities: Autonomous Muslim Towns in Senegal - Eric Ross
Africanite and Urbanite: The Place of the Urban in Imaginings of African Identity during the Late Colonial Period in French West Africa - James Genova
Urban Poverty, Urban Crime, and Crime Control: The Lagos and Ibadan Cases 1929-45 - Laurent Fourchard
The Fluctuating Fortunes of Anglophone Cameroon Towns: The Case of Victoria, 1858-1982 - Thomas Ngomba Ekali
Urban Planning and Development in Zimbabwe: A Historical Perspective - Doug T. Feremenga
Somalia's City of the Jackals: Politics, Economy, and Society in Mogadishu (1991-2001) - Omar A. Eno

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Ross Eric:
Eric Ross is professor of geography at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.Rich Jeremy:
JEREMY RICH is Associate Professor of History, Marywood University. His books include A Workman is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary (2007).