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Title Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history / edited by Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn & Klaas Van Walraven
Published Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 2
African dynamics ; 2.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Government, Resistance to -- Africa -- History
Revolutions -- Africa -- History
Violence -- Africa -- History
Decolonization -- Africa -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Decolonization
Ethnic relations
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
Revolutions
Violence
Widerstand
Verzet.
Geweld.
SUBJECT Africa -- History, Military
Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
Africa -- Ethnic relations
Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
Europe -- Colonies -- History
Subject Africa
Afrika
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Abbink, J
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-
ISBN 1417507179
9781417507177
904740162X
9789047401629
9781280466878
1280466871