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African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving betwe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Salm, Steven J., 1966- (Editor ), Falola, Toyin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
Temas:
Urbanization > Africa > History.
Cities and towns > Africa > History.
Urbanisation > Afrique > Histoire.
Villes > Afrique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns.
Urbanization.
Africa.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Colonial urbanization and urban management in Kenya / Kefa M. Otiso
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  • Urbanization and Afrikaner class formation: the mine workers' union and the search for a cultural identity / Wessel P. Visser
  • The importance of being educated: strategies of an urban petit-bourgeois elite, South Africa, 1935-50 / Corinne Sandwith
  • Where every language is heard: Atlantic commerce, West African and Asian migrants, and town society in Libreville, ca. 1860-1914 / Jeremy Rich
  • Captured and steeped in colonial dynamics and legacy: the case of Isiolo Town in Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi
  • From marabout republics to autonomous rural communities: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegal / Eric S. Ross
  • Africanité and urbanité: the place of the urban in imaginings of African identity during the late colonial period in French West Africa / James E. Genova
  • Urban poverty, urban crime, and crime control: the Lagos and Ibadan cases 1929-45 / Laurent Fourchard
  • The fluctuating fortunes of anglophone Cameroon towns: the case of Victoria, 1858-1982 / Thomas Ngomba Ekali
  • Urban planning and development in Zimbabwe: a historical perspective / Douglas T. Feremenga
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