{"title":"New Evidence on Relations between Portugal and the Kingdom of Allada in the Sixteenth Century","authors":"Pedro Pinto, R. Law","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.25","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The kingdom of Allada in the seventeenth century was an important supplier of slaves for the trans-Atlantic trade, and also an object of Christian missionary activity, but the earlier history of its interactions with Europeans is poorly documented. It has previously been assumed that the first direct Portuguese contact with the Allada area occurred in 1553. However, recently discovered documents in Portuguese archives correct this view. These comprise two petitions to the King of Portugal from an ambassador of the King of Allada currently in Lisbon: although undated, the content of one of them enables it to be dated to either 1544 or 1555, more probably the former; given the time which the ambassador had already spent in Portugal, his original dispatch from Allada occurred in 1540/1541 or 1551/1552. The petitions document the Allada king’s interest in the establishment of a Christian church in his realm, as well as commercial relations.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"37 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47939931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery, Absorption, and Gender: Frederick Cooper and the Power of Comparison","authors":"L. Lindsay","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.22","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This essay considers Frederick Cooper’s early scholarship on African slavery, which called for and modeled a practice of comparative historiography. His critique of the “absorption model” of African slavery, enabled by comparison with the Americas, anticipated important recent trends in the study of Atlantic slavery. Revisiting this critique helps us to understand key features of cultural continuity and change among enslaved people and can inform future research about gender and the Atlantic slave trade. In particular, it suggests the limitations of an analysis that separates the assumed African assimilation of enslaved women from the export mostly of men. Résumé: Cet essai porte sur les premières études de Frederick Cooper sur l’esclavage africain, qui préconisaient et modélisaient une pratique de l’historiographie comparée. Sa critique du “modèle d’absorption” de l’esclavage africain, rendue possible par la comparaison avec les Amériques, anticipait d’importantes tendances récentes dans l’étude de l’esclavage dans le monde atlantique. Revenir sur cette critique nous aide à comprendre les caractéristiques clés de la continuité et du changement culturels chez les personnes réduites en esclavage et peut éclairer les recherches futures sur le genre et le commerce des esclaves dans le monde atlantique. En particulier, cette critique suggère les limites d’une analyse qui sépare l’assimilation africaine présumée des femmes esclaves de l’exportation majoritaire d’hommes.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"66 3","pages":"65 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41295600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining the Past: A Report of Four Archival Repositories in Zambia","authors":"Hyden Munene","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.24","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Researchers and scholars have written on the history of mining in Zambia using a variety of sources and archives. But much of the history written from local archives has relied heavily on the National Archives of Zambia. Yet, important archival holdings for researchers of the history of Zambia’s mining industry also exist in the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Archive, the United National Independence Party Archive, and in the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia Headquarters. These repositories house rich collections of data invaluable for understanding Zambia’s mining industry. Covering the period from the 1890s to the present, these archives make possible new questions and interpretations of Zambia’s mining industry. Résumé: Des chercheurs de tous horizons ont écrit sur l’histoire de l’exploitation minière en Zambie en utilisant différentes sources et archives. Pourtant, ces historiens ont utilisé majoritairement des sources disponibles dans les archives locales des Archives nationales de Zambie. Cependant, il existe des archives importantes pour les historiens spécialistes de l’industrie minière de la Zambie dans les archives de la Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, dans celles du United National Independence Party et dans celles du siège du Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia. Ces dépôts contiennent de riches fonds d’une valeur inestimable pour comprendre l’industrie minière zambienne. Couvrant la période des années 1890 à nos jours, ces archives permettent de poser de nouvelles questions et de formuler de nouvelles interprétations sur l’industrie minière zambienne.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"359 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42883489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tensions of an Oeuvre: Historical Materialism, Cultural History, and the Work of Frederick Cooper","authors":"Andrew Ivaska","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.21","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Using the Tensions of Empire volume as a pivot point, this article traces Frederick Cooper’s work in relation to trajectories of historical materialism and cultural history over the past forty years. Highlighting Cooper’s contributions to both approaches, it points to a generative tension between these strands of his scholarship – as well as between his oeuvre and the arc of broader historiography on empire. Specific features of Cooper’s approach were key to the success of the Tensions of Empire collaboration, and attention to them can help recapture aspects of these historiographies that have become obscured over time. Résumé: En utilisant le livre Tensions of Empire comme point de référence, cet article retrace l’œuvre de Frederick Cooper en relation avec les trajectoires du matérialisme historique et de l’histoire culturelle au cours de ces quarante dernières années. En soulignant les contributions de Cooper à ces deux approches, cet article met en évidence une tension génératrice entre ces deux dimensions de ses publications ainsi qu’entre ses écrits et l’historiographie au sens plus large sur l’“empire.” Les caractéristiques spécifiques de l’approche de Cooper ont été déterminantes pour le succès de l’ouvrage collectif Tensions of Empire. En se focalisant sur le matérialisme historique et l’histoire culturelle, cet article entend apporter un éclairage nouveau à des aspects historiographiques qui se sont effacés au fil du temps.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"55 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44580609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Peculiarities of Capitalism: Frederick Cooper on Africa and the World Economy","authors":"Geoffrey Traugh","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.20","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This essay explores Frederick Cooper’s work on the history of capitalism, bringing together his histories of class struggles on the East African coast and his conceptual interventions into debates on Africa and the world economy. It argues that Cooper’s notion of the “peculiarities of capitalism” illuminates how conflicts over work, rights, and the labor process have shaped where capital went and what it did in Africa. The essay also considers how Cooper’s work might inform the emerging literature on race and capitalism in Africa, exploring in particular the history of tobacco capitalism in postcolonial Malawi. Résumé: Cet article analyse les travaux de Frederick Cooper sur l’histoire du capitalisme, en rassemblant ses récits de luttes de classes sur la côte est-africaine et ses interventions conceptuelles dans des débats sur l’Afrique et l’économie mondiale. Cet article veut montrer que la notion de Cooper de “particularités du capitalisme” met en lumière la manière dont les conflits, droits et règles du travail ont façonné les trajectoires et effets du capital en Afrique. Cet article examine également la manière dont les travaux de Cooper pourraient éclairer la littérature émergente sur la race et le capitalisme en Afrique, en explorant en particulier l’histoire du capitalisme du tabac dans le Malawi postcolonial.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"83 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43121368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Frederick Cooper and the Historiography of Africa","authors":"G. Mann, L. Lindsay","doi":"10.1017/HIA.2019.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/HIA.2019.23","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This short essay introduces a set of five papers that examine the place Frederick Cooper’s scholarship occupies in the historiography of Africa. Résumé: Ce court essai présente une série de cinq articles qui examinent la place occupée par les publications de Frederick Cooper dans l’historiographie de l’Afrique.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"51 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/HIA.2019.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47615680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Work and Discipline on the East African Coast","authors":"Luise White","doi":"10.1017/HIA.2019.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/HIA.2019.19","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Frederick Cooper’s first three books, published between 1977 and 1987, were written during African historians’ first sustained critical engagement with African archives and African voices. Cooper’s books were literally in the weeds with slave and free labor in East Africa, yet their importance went beyond the region. Read in sequence, we see how Cooper’s work was shifting toward studies of the metropole by the mid-1980s. Taken together we see how practices in the workplace shaped policies in Whitehall, that conditions on plantations and on docks caused a rethinking of how colonialists might most successfully exert control. Résumé: Les trois premiers livres de Frederick Cooper, publiés entre 1977 et 1987, ont été écrits lors du premier engagement critique soutenu des historiens de l’Afrique sur les archives et les voix africaines. Les livres de Cooper étaient submergés par les détails sur l’esclavage et le travail libre en Afrique de l’Est, mais leur importance dépassait les limites de la région. En les lisant successivement, nous voyons l’évolution des travaux de Cooper en direction des études de la métropole au milieu des années 1980. Pris ensemble, nous voyons comment les pratiques sur le lieu de travail ont façonné les politiques de Whitehall: ainsi, les conditions dans les plantations et dans les ports ont amené les colonisateurs à repenser la manière dont ils pourraient exercer leur domination avec plus de succès.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"95 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/HIA.2019.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44284965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Historian’s Theory of Social Change","authors":"G. Mann","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.18","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The article argues that the concept of “claims-making” has been an important and influential thread in the work of Frederick Cooper. It explores the utility and advantages – as well as the characteristic rigor – of this theory of social change and what it implies. It then turns to the potential limits of its adoption within Africanist historiography and African Studies more broadly. Résumé: Cet article affirme que le concept de “revendication” a été un fil conducteur important et influent dans les travaux de Frederick Cooper. Il explore l’utilité et les avantages - ainsi que la rigueur caractéristique - de cette théorie du changement social et de ce qu’elle implique. Il aborde ensuite les limites potentielles de son adoption dans le cadre de l’historiographie africaniste et des études africanistes au sens large.","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"47 1","pages":"75 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46690074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIA volume 46 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"46 1","pages":"f1 - f7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.15","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49228445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIA volume 46 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/hia.2019.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39318,"journal":{"name":"History in Africa","volume":"46 1","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/hia.2019.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47573538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}