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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
African studies series
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African studies series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Power and history writing in colonial Buganda -- Ignatius K. Musazi: powerful kings and colonial economies, c. 1905-c. 1949 -- Eridadi M.K. Mulira: cosmopolitanism and citizenship, c. 1909-c. 1949 -- Eridadi M.K. Mulira: Buganda's status in Uganda, c. 1953-c. 1959 -- Abubakar K. Mayanja: pluralism and Islamic political thought, c. 1844-c. 1962 -- Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka: justice and Catholic dissent, c. 1879-c. 1962 -- Conclusion: Textual production and historical imagination in postcolonial Buganda. |
| Summary |
Colonial Buganda was one of the most important and richly documented kingdoms in East Africa. In this book, Jonathon L. Earle offers the first global intellectual history of the Kingdom, using a series of case studies, interviews and previously inaccessible private archives to offer new insights concerning the multiple narratives used by intellectuals. Where previous studies on literacy in Africa have presupposed 'sacred' or 'secular' categories, Earle argues that activists blurred European epistemologies as they reworked colonial knowledge into vernacular debates about kingship and empire. Furthermore, by presenting Catholic, Muslim and Protestant histories and political perspectives in conversation with one another, he offers a nuanced picture of the religious and social environment. Through the lives, politics, and historical contexts of these African intellectuals, Earle presents an important argument about the end of empire, making the reader rethink the dynamics of political imagination and historical pluralism in the colonial and postcolonial state. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Buganda -- History.
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Buganda -- Intellectual life.
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Buganda -- Colonial influence.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central. |
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Colonial influence. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Uganda -- Buganda. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108417051 1108417051 (DLC) 2017035908 (OCoLC)990970016 |
| ISBN |
9781108264723 (electronic book) |
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1108264727 (electronic book) |
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9781108277204 (electronic book) |
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1108277209 (electronic book) |
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1108276288 |
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9781108276283 |
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9781108417051 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1108417051 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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