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1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Arms and Adolescence; 2: Youth, Cattle Raiding, and Generational Conflict along the Kenya-Uganda Border; 3: Setting a Moral Economy in Motion; 4: Colonial Youth at the Crossroads; 5: Raw Youth, School-Leavers, and the Emergence of Structural Unemployment in Late Colonial Urban Tanganyika; 6: Bad Boys in the Bush?; 7: Youth, Elders, and Metaphors of PoliticalChange in Late Colonial Buganda; 8: Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, 1925-73; 9: To Differentiate Rice from Grass. |
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10: Premarital Sexuality in Great Lakes Africa,1900-198011: "Ruined Lives"; 12: Protecting Young People; Contributors; Index. |
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Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies. While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Gener. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ethnology -- Africa, Eastern.
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Ethnology. |
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Eastern Africa. |
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Social change -- Africa, Eastern.
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Social change. |
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Age groups -- Africa, Eastern.
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Age groups. |
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Intergenerational relations -- Africa, Eastern.
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Young men -- Africa, Eastern.
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Africa, Eastern -- Social conditions.
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Intergenerational relations. |
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Young men. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central. |
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Social conditions. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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Ostafrika. |
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Jugend -- Afrika -- Geschichte. |
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Jugend. |
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Generationsbeziehung. |
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Sozialer Wandel. |
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Ostafrika. |
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Multi-User |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Intergenerational relationships. |
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Charton-Bigot, Hélène.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burton, Andrew. Generations Past : Youth in East African History. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2010 |
| ISBN |
9780821419236 (electronic book) |
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0821419234 (electronic book) |
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9780821443439 (electronic book) |
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0821443437 (electronic book) |
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9780821419243 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0821419242 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780821419236 |
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ebc1743668 |
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