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Writing African History
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It …
Historical Evidence and Argument
Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is ""evidence,"" how do historians know what it means - and how can we trust them to get it …
In Search of Columbus
Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change
While the essays collected in this volume address a number of issues, they all share the same aim of placing Africanist librarianship in the contexts of our times. Many essays set …
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in …
Numbers from Nowhere
In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian …
Serial Bibliographies and Abstracts in History
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Naming Colonialism
What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and …
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history …