| Titre : |
African urban spaces in historical perspective |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Steven J. Salm, Editeur scientifique ; Toyin Falola (1953-....), Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Rochester (New York) [États-Unis] : University of Rochester Press |
| Année de publication : |
2005 |
| Autre Editeur : |
Rochester - New York [États-Unis] : Boydell & Brewer |
| Collection : |
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, ISSN 1092-5228 num. 21 |
| Importance : |
XL + 395 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill., cartes, couv. ill. |
| Format : |
22 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-58046-314-0 |
| Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Espaces urbains -- Afrique ; Urbanisation -- Afrique -- Histoire ; Villes ; Villes -- Afrique -- Histoire
|
| Index. décimale : |
307.76'096 |
| Résumé : |
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.
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 between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build |
| Note de contenu : |
Moving east, Facing west: Islam as an intercultural mediator in urban planning in the Sokoto Empire / Mark Dike DeLancey–- Oppressive impressioins, architectural expressioins: the poetics of French colonial (ad)vantage regarding Africa / Michael Ralph – "Just build it modern" : post-apartheid spaces on Namibia's urban frontier / Fatima Muller-Friedman -- Colonial urbanization and urban management in Kenya / Kefa M. Otiso -- "Inherently unhygienic races" : plague and the origins of settler dominance in Nairobi, 1899-1907 / Godwin R. Murunga -- Urbanization and Afrikaner class formation: the Mine Workers' Union and the search for a cultural identity / Wessel 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 Nyamanga Amutabi -- From marabout republics to autonomous rural communities: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegal / Eric Ross -- Africanité and Urbanité: The place of the urban in imaginings of African identity during the late colonial period in French West Africa / James 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 / Doug T. Feremenga -- Somalia's city of the jackals: politics, economy, and society in Mogadishu (1991-2001) / Omar A. Eno |
African urban spaces in historical perspective [texte imprimé] / Steven J. Salm, Editeur scientifique ; Toyin Falola (1953-....), Editeur scientifique . - Rochester (New York) (États-Unis) : University of Rochester Press : Rochester - New York (États-Unis) : Boydell & Brewer, 2005 . - XL + 395 p. : ill., cartes, couv. ill. ; 22 cm. - ( Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, ISSN 1092-5228; 21) . ISBN : 978-1-58046-314-0 Notes bibliogr. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Espaces urbains -- Afrique ; Urbanisation -- Afrique -- Histoire ; Villes ; Villes -- Afrique -- Histoire
|
| Index. décimale : |
307.76'096 |
| Résumé : |
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.
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 between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build |
| Note de contenu : |
Moving east, Facing west: Islam as an intercultural mediator in urban planning in the Sokoto Empire / Mark Dike DeLancey–- Oppressive impressioins, architectural expressioins: the poetics of French colonial (ad)vantage regarding Africa / Michael Ralph – "Just build it modern" : post-apartheid spaces on Namibia's urban frontier / Fatima Muller-Friedman -- Colonial urbanization and urban management in Kenya / Kefa M. Otiso -- "Inherently unhygienic races" : plague and the origins of settler dominance in Nairobi, 1899-1907 / Godwin R. Murunga -- Urbanization and Afrikaner class formation: the Mine Workers' Union and the search for a cultural identity / Wessel 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 Nyamanga Amutabi -- From marabout republics to autonomous rural communities: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegal / Eric Ross -- Africanité and Urbanité: The place of the urban in imaginings of African identity during the late colonial period in French West Africa / James 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 / Doug T. Feremenga -- Somalia's city of the jackals: politics, economy, and society in Mogadishu (1991-2001) / Omar A. Eno |
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