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Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Prologue
• Part I. Parameters and Contexts
• Act I. Isike at the Crossroads
• 1. Complicating Conquest
• The Inescapable Partition
• A Prospectus
• Part II. Instability and Creativity
• Act II. Msabila Ousted, Mbula Mtelya Transformed
• 2. Flux and Frontier
• 3. The Age of Insurgency
• A Tale of Two Coups
• Greenfield Rebels
• Volatility and Ingenuity (1): Contesting the Polity
• Volatility and Ingenuity (2): Insurgency and Mobility
• Part III. Aspiration and Innovation
• Act III. Hamed bin Muhammed Goes West
• 4. Material Worlds

• Enterprise, Entrepôts, Entrepreneurs
• Striving, Moving, Belonging
• Coercion
• Part IV. Liminality and Leverage
• Act IV. The Progress of John Rowlands
• 5. Being and Becoming mzungu
• A Short History of Mission Creep
• Scrambles
• Exporting Energy
• 6. Interstice and Intermediacy
• Liminal Spaces
• Contest and Contingency
• Communities and Cultures of Intermediacy
• The Leverage of Violence
• Intrusions, Co-options and Insurgent Communities
• Part V. Time and Place
• Act V. Time on the Road
• 7. Ways of Seeing, Being, and Remembering
• The Passion of Tewodros, and Other Histories
• History and the mzungu
• The African Past and Its Malcontents
• Stanley Must (Not) Fall
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Author/Creator:

Reid, Richard , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The African revolution: a history of the long nineteenth century [by Reid, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: The African Revolution [by Reid, R.] (Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2025 — ISBN 9780691266961)

Subjects:

Decolonization — Africa — History

Slave trade — History — Colonies

Africa — History

Africa — Historiography

Africa — Colonization — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 31st, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DT20 .R45 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780691266954 (electronic bk.)
0691266956 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1487904127