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Title Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history / edited by Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn & Klaas Van Walraven.

Publication Info. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 2
African dynamics ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Resistance to Ube hegemony in nineteenth-century West Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk -- Colonial conquest in central Madagascar: who resisted what? / Stephen Ellis -- Revisiting resistance in Italian-occupied Ethiopia: the patriots' movement (1936-1941) and the redefinition of post-war Ethiopia / Aregawi Berhe -- Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: the Kat River settlement, 1829-1856 / Robert Ross -- African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: a nineteenth century colonial paradox / Ineke van Kessel -- Absence of evidence is no proof: slave resistance under German colonial rule in East Africa / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- The Kawousan war reconsidered / Kimba Idrissa -- Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): narrative and meaning / Klaas van Walraven -- The vagaries of violence and power in post-colonial Mozambique / Gerhard Seibert -- Herero genocide in the twentieth-century / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 'Namibia, land of the brave': selective memories on war and violence within nation building / Henning Melber -- Dervishes, moryaan, and freedom fighters: cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000 / Jon Abbink.
Summary This work covers the subject of resistance. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? This work aims to answer this question and more.
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Subject Africa -- History, Military.
Africa.
History, Military.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Africa -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Government, Resistance to -- Africa -- History.
Government, Resistance to.
History.
Revolutions -- Africa -- History.
Revolutions.
Violence -- Africa -- History.
Violence.
Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- History.
Europe.
Colonies.
Decolonization -- Africa -- History.
Decolonization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Added Author Abbink, J.
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-
Other Form: Print version: Rethinking resistance. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004126244 (DLC) 2002043936 (OCoLC)51304067
ISBN 1417507179 (electronic book)
9781417507177 (electronic book)
904740162X
9789047401629
9004126244 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9789004126244 (paperback ; acid-free paper)