This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and East African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century.
This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and East African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Derek R. Peterson teaches African history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya and the editor of several books, including Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa and Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic. Peterson is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: the pilgrims' politics 2. The infrastructure of cosmopolitanism 3. Religious movements in southern Uganda 4. Civil society in Buganda 5. Taking stock: conversion and accountancy in Bugufi 6. Patriotism and dissent in western Kenya 7. The politics of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika 8. Subjects of the law: conversion and court procedure 9. Casting characters: autobiography and political argument in central Kenya 10. Confession, slander, and civic virtue in Mau Mau detention camps 11. Contests of time in western Uganda Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary East Africa Bibliography.
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: the pilgrims' politics 2. The infrastructure of cosmopolitanism 3. Religious movements in southern Uganda 4. Civil society in Buganda 5. Taking stock: conversion and accountancy in Bugufi 6. Patriotism and dissent in western Kenya 7. The politics of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika 8. Subjects of the law: conversion and court procedure 9. Casting characters: autobiography and political argument in central Kenya 10. Confession, slander, and civic virtue in Mau Mau detention camps 11. Contests of time in western Uganda Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary East Africa Bibliography.
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