Brasseur’s dense personal correspondence describes in exceptional detail both his day-to-day activities and administrative determinations and the numerous military operations that he and/or his local allies undertook with a view to impressing upon Katangese communities the need to comply with instructions relating to taxation in kind and labour. The striking candidness and directness of the records presented in this edition challenge top-down understandings of the violent workings of the Congo Free State, cast unprecedented light on early colonial state-building in Katanga and show that the latter process was deeply informed by African strategies and interests. These themes are systematically pursued in the volume’s extensive introduction, which advances the idea that the Congo Free State is best understood as a continuation of the nineteenth-century warlord order in Central Africa, rather than the embodiment of a ‘modern’ colonial project.
The book can be bought here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-colonial-occupation-of-katanga-9780197266496?cc=gb&lang=en&#
非洲历史上的战争和军国主义是第一本致力于研究非洲过去和持续冲突的政治经济、社会文化和军事层面的丛书。虽然武装战斗和其他形式的暴力是非洲大陆大部分人口的社会经验的一部分,但今天发表的学术论文很少认识到这些当代冲突的深刻根源,也很少在冲突发生的更大背景下描述它们。相比之下,WMAH寻求学者采用战争与社会方法的作品,在这种方法中,对战场发展的研究与更广泛的社会趋势和动态交织在一起。该系列还欢迎将军国主义或反军国主义运动历史化的作品,以纠正目前在该领域盛行的现实主义。< / p >
The series will include monographs, broad syntheses with teaching potential at the graduate or undergraduate levels, and edited collections by both emerging and established scholars. WMAH also aspires to bridge the gap between scholarly readers and nonspecialists in the field.
The series editors particularly encourage submissions from Africa-based scholars, whose voices too often go unheard for lack of publishing opportunities. One of the driving objectives of WMAH is to address this imbalance.
Manuscripts should be between 80,000 and 120,000 words.
Please send inquiries regarding proposals to Ricky S. Huard, acquisitions editor, at huard@ohio.edu. See the Ohio University Press submissions page for proposal guidelines: www.ohioswallow.com/submissions.
Editorial Advisory Board
Saheed Aderinto, associate professor of history, Western Carolina University
David M. Gordon, professor of history, Bowdoin College
Michelle R. Moyd, associate professor of history, Indiana University
Richard J. Reid, professor of African history, SOAS, University of London
Elizabeth Schmidt, professor of history, Loyola University Maryland
Pamela Scully, professor of WGSS and African studies, Emory University
William K. Storey, professor of history, Millsaps College
Luise White, professor of history, University of Florida
Peter’s论文, ' "非洲海岸之门":塞舌尔在马斯卡林奴隶贸易,1770-1830 ',由Giacomo Macola博士指导,Clare Anderson教授(莱斯特)和Andrew Cohen博士(肯特)检查。开云体育app客服
10月5日th殖民主义历史中心很高兴地庆祝安德鲁·科恩博士的非洲非殖民化的政治和经济:失败的
The Experiment of The Central African Federation。安迪的书对非洲所谓的“第二次殖民占领”进行了批判性的考察,利用新发布的档案记录,对英国殖民晚期的中非领土进行了新的考察。基于大量令人印象深刻的原始初步研究,以及对其在战后世界新出现的政治和经济背景下的重要性的掌握,该书对该地区的非殖民化提出了一个多重因果解释,特别关注了全球大宗商品价格(特别是铜)的下降,以及该地区白人定居的政治背景。我们的庆祝活动以殖民主义历史中心主任贾科莫·马科拉博士的生动介绍开始,他以同事、朋友和历史学家的身份赞扬了安迪的工作,这一点得到了桌边同事的热烈支持。我们有幸邀请到了奇切斯特大学的Kate Law博士,她就Andy的工作和他的书对Andy进行了“采访”。开云体育主頁(欢迎您)虽然不屑于提出反事实的问题(以及任何关于文化历史的讨论!),但安迪让在场的工作人员和学生对他的工作和论点有了有趣的见解,听众很高兴在演讲结束时有机会提问。就这样,当太阳真的落在房间里时(一度导致人们争抢灯光),我们讨论和辩论了帝国在非洲的非殖民化,然后我们就着酒和小点心一起聊天。可以说,所有人都度过了一段美好的时光——同时,安迪的书可以在这里购买(超链接: http://www.ibtauris.com/books/humanities/history/regional%20%20national%20history/african%20history/the%20politics%20and%20economics%20of%20decolonization%20in%20africa%20the%20failed%20experiment%20of%20the%20central%20african%20federation ) for the bargain price of £69!
Many congratulations to Andy on this impressive achievement!
维多利亚女王军队的黑人士兵在火星上与冰战士作战?
它比你想象的更符合历史。作家马克·加蒂斯(Mark Gatiss)在最近的一集写作中深入研究了殖民历史,揭示了苏丹男孩吉米·达勒姆(Jimmy Durham)的故事,他于1886年从尼罗河获救,由达勒姆轻步兵团的士兵抚养长大。
阅读全文here。
但是,Jimmy并不是唯一一个获救的非洲儿童‘在维多利亚女王统治时期。< / p >
In 1868, His Imperial Highness Prince Alemayehu of Ethiopia (son of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia) was brought to Britain and introduced to Queen Victoria when he was only seven years old, after the suicide of his father. You can read more about him, and the campaign to return his remains to Ethiopia here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/britain-kidnapped-ethiopian-prince
And in 1850, at the age of eight, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba royal was brought to England as a “gift” for Queen Victoria. She later attended school in Sierra Leone, but returned to England at the age of twelve, and lived with a Mr and Mrs Schon at Chatham, Kent. She married a successful Yoruba businessman in Brighton in 1862 and the couple moved to Badagry in modern-day Nigeria. She remained in contact with the Queen throughout, even naming her daughter Victoria.
And these are only a couple of the most prominent examples. Many African children spent time in education, training or being fostered in the UK through the 18th and 19th centuries.
More about the history of Black people in Britain:
BBC: 15 great black Britons who made history
非洲非殖民化的政治与经济:中非联邦失败的实验
我们很高兴地宣布安德鲁·科恩的新书出版,的政治和经济非洲的非殖民化:中非联邦的失败实验
这是对非洲非殖民化研究的深刻而博学的干预,将帝国的终结置于其国际背景下,使用来自南部非洲、欧洲和美国的档案材料。
安德鲁是肯特大学帝国史讲师,教授关于联合国历史和非洲抵抗殖民统治的课程。开云体育主頁(欢迎您)
摘要
1945年后欧洲殖民帝国的缓慢崩溃是二十世纪历史上最伟大的转折点之一。然而,随着印度的损失,哈罗德·麦克米伦(Harold Macmillan)领导下的英国人试图实施第二次‘殖民占领;支持殖民办公室安德鲁·科恩爵士创建中非联邦的努力。根据新发布的档案材料,《非殖民化的政治和经济》对英国在殖民晚期的中非领土进行了新的考察,并对英国、非洲和联合国的事件如何影响非殖民化进程进行了详细评估。 The author situates the Central African Federation – which consisted of modern day Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi – in its wider international context, shedding light on the Federation’s complex relationships with South Africa, with US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy and with the expanding United Nations. The result is an important history of the last days of the British Empire and the beginnings of a more independent African continent.
灵感来自‘装饰主义’(Cannadine, 2001) Ambrogio caiani在《英国历史评论》(The English Historical Review)上的新文章探讨了拿破仑如何寻求促进意大利卫星王国的合作和当地投资。这篇文章反映了caiani博士的创新方法,该方法使用帝国和殖民历史的分析工具仔细检查了拿破仑帝国
She also chaired a panel (pictured) on ‘Atlantic Sierra Leone: Slavery, Missionaries, and Migrants’ organised by Joseph Yannielli (Princeton University).