Biographies Between Spheres of Empire
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African colonial history
African history
Andrew D. Roberts
biographical analysis of colonial Africa
biography
Cape Coast
Cape Colony
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Colonial Administration
colonial African societies
Colonial Nigeria
colonial power dynamics
colonialism
cross-cultural mobility
diaries
Duala Society
English Fort
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Fela Sowande
gender roles
German Colonial
German Colonial Government
German Colonial Rule
German Colony
German Government
German South West Africa
Gold Coast
Hill Estate
Hill Family
imperial intermediaries
interpreters
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies
King Gezo
Kobina Sekyi
life history
Marketing Cocoa
Mixed Race People
Mixed Race Woman
Nigerian Daily Times
Precarious Social Position
Robin Law
Ruth Watson
Silke Strickrodt
social stratification Africa
Tin Trunks
translators
Ulrike Lindner
Ulrike Schaper
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138574168
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history. This is particularly true of Africa, where empires competed with one another and colonial society was characterised by rigid divisions. In this book, five biographical studies explore how, in the course of their lives, interpreters, landowners, students and traders navigated the boundaries between the various spaces of the colonial world. With a focus on African life worlds, the authors show the disruptions and constraints as well as the new options and forms of mobility that resulted from colonial rule. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies.
Achim von Oppen is Professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has published widely on the history of social and economic change; space-making and translocality; religious change; and ‘development’, mainly in rural settings in Zambia and Tanzania.
Silke Strickrodt is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on the history of pre-colonial and early colonial West Africa, particularly on Afro-European encounters in the context of trade, Christian mission and scientific exploration.
