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Locality, mobility, and "nation" : periurban colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 /

In this original interdisciplinary study of Togo and African colonial history, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social history by documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Anchoring his arguments on the premise that nationalist histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conceptualizing periurban colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobility, locality, and Ewe identity in periurban Eweland
  • Intervention and dissent : manufacturing the model periurban chief
  • Crisis in an Ewe "capital" : the periurban zone descends on the city
  • Vodou and resistance : politico-religious crises in the periurban landscape
  • The German Togo-bund and the periurban manifestations of "nation"
  • From Eweland to la République Togolaise : the Guide du Togo and the periurban circulation of knowledge.