Colonial rule and crisis in Equatorial Africa : Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940 /

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Author / Creator:Gray, Christopher J. (Christopher John)
Imprint:Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2002.
Description:xxii, 275 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:[Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; [v. 13]
[Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora [v. 13].
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6653928
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ISBN:1580460488 (alk. paper)
9781580460484 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-258) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps
  • Christopher J. Gray, 1958-2000
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Spelling
  • Introduction
  • 1. Developing a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equatorial Africa
  • 2. Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s
  • 3. "The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality
  • 4. The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality
  • 5. Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Triumph in Southern Gabon, ca. 1890-1920
  • 6. The Imposition of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940
  • 7. Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers
  • Conclusion
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • I.. Informants
  • II.. Archives
  • III.. Unpublished Works
  • IV.. Journals
  • V.. Books and Articles--Nineteenth Century
  • VI.. Books--Twentieth Century
  • VII.. Articles--Twentieth Century
  • Index
  • Curriculum Vitae of Christopher J. Gray