Mombasa, the Swahili, and the making of the Mijikenda /
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| Author / Creator: | Willis, Justin |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xiii, 231 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in African affairs |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1428370 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. 'Singwaya was a very big city': The Swahili and the Nyika to 1890. 1. Histories of the Coast, and the Structure of Hinterland Communities. 2. Clients and Slaves in the Nineteenth Century
- Pt. II. 'Why the natives will not work': Labour, Trade, and the Story of Singwaya, 1890-1919. 3. Squatting and Trade in the Hinterland. 4. Casual Labour and the Swahili in Mombasa
- Pt. III. 'Close contact with the coast residents is most prejudicial': State Intervention, 1900-1931. 5. The Creation of Administrative and Landowning Categories. 6. The Control of Trade. 7. Planning Mombasa. 8. Labour Legislation, Causality, and the Cost of Labour
- Pt. IV. 'Other dances': Mombasa and the Mijikenda, 1925-1934. 9. New Networks of Labour. 10. The Twelve Tribes and the Mijikenda. Appendix: Biographies of Informants.