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Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule
ISBN: 9780821419830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?
In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women fig...
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Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9780299219543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African." Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society.
By... As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant wa...
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189,01 zł |