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‘Alas, Alas, Kongo’: A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841–1865. By Monica Schuler. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 186. $16.50.
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The eight studies in this volume were first presented at a conference held in 1977 on the theme "Cultivator and State in Precolonical Africa". The essays cover the following regions: Southern Sahara (Stewart), Equatorial Central Africa (Jewsiewicki), Western Uganda (Steinhart), Dahomey (Kilkenny), the Middle Niger (Roberts), Bida (Mason), and Ethiopia (one paper by Abeles and another by Crummey).Abstract:
The eight studies in this volume were first presented at a conference held in 1977 on the theme 'Cultivator and State in Precolonical Africa'. The essays cover the following regions: Southern Sahara (Stewart), Equatorial Central Africa (Jewsiewicki), Western Uganda (Steinhart), Dahomey (Kilkenny), the Middle Niger (Roberts), Bida (Mason), and Ethiopia (one paper by Abeles and another by Crummey). These studies are prefaced by an editorial introduction which criticizes nationalist, empiricist, and idealist presuppositions, and proposes instead the adoption of a 'Marxian frame of thought'. The brand of historical materialism advocated by Crummey and Stewart might be thought by some readers to lack sophistication. For example, the terminology used in the book is very general and liable to ambiguity; authors can suppose that they have reached solutions when they have merely redescribed problems. Fortunately, however, this collection contains a number of useful studies which can be assessed by specialists according to normal tests of evidence and inference. The present reviewer, though criticized for his' idealist' assumptions, must welcome this collection as a further contribution to the study of the economic and social history of Africa.read more
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