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Economic Prehistory
Demonstrates how economics can explain the transformation of human society from mobile foraging bands to the first city-states.
Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna
Many West African societies have egalitarian political systems, with non-centralised distributions of power. 'Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna' analyses a wide range of archaeological data to explore the development of such societies. The volume offers a detailed case study of the village settlement of Kirikongo in western Burkina Faso. Over the course of the first millennium, this single homestead extended control over a growing community. The book argues that the decentralization of power in the twelfth century BCE radically transformed this society, changing gender roles, public activities, pottery making and iron-working. 'Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna' will be of interest to students of political science, anthropology, archaeology and the history of West Africa.
Sovereignty without Power
What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States, Liberia's history illustrates how the government's efforts to exercise its economic sovereignty and engage with the global economy shaped Liberia's economic and political development over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing together a wide range of archival sources, Leigh A. Gardner presents the first quantitative estimates of Liberian's economic performance and uses these to compare it to its colonized neighbors and other independent countries. Liberia's history anticipated challenges still faced by developing countries today, and offers a new perspective on the role of power and power relationships in shaping Africa's economic history.
Eigentümlichkeit und Macht
Eigentumlichkeit und Macht avancierten im Vormarz zu zentralen Begriffen des Diskurses uber die deutsche Nation. Am Beispiel der sogenannten 'schleswig-holsteinischen Frage' wird untersucht, wie das Thema bedrohter deutscher Nationalitat mit der Vision einer deutschen Flotte und deutscher Weltmacht verbunden wurde. Die Frage, ob die Einwohner der 'deutschen Herzogtumer' im danischen Gesamtstaat ihre Nationalitat wurden bewahren konnen, entfaltete eine Dynamik, die innerhalb weniger Jahre von friedlicher Koexistenz zu Krieg und Burgerkrieg fuhrte und 1848 dem Projekt der deutschen Nationalstaatsgrundung eine entscheidende Krise bescherte.
Marines In The Revolution
Marines In The Revolution by Charles Richard Smith; Charles H Waterhouse "Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence."
Trees, Grasses and Crops. People and Plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond
In 2019, Prof. Dr. Katharina Neumann had been head of the workgroup on African Archaeobotany at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for 25 years. In honor of this anniversary and to commemorate the achievements made and inspired by Katharina in the field of African Archaeobotany, the editors ? two long-time colleagues ? have compiled this Festschrift. The title ?Trees, Grasses and Crops ? People and Plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond? refers to both the plant groups Katharina has been particularly interested in throughout her academic career and the centerpiece of her research, the correlation between people and plants. Human actions such as...
Naval Documents of the American Revolution
In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Plants and People in the African Past
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes. This book provides an insight into/overview of the manifold routes people have taken in various parts Africa in order to make a decent living from the provisions of their environment by bringing together the analyses of macroscopic and microscopic plant remains with ethnographic, botanical, geographical and linguistic research. The numerous chapters cover almost all the continent countries, and were prepared by most of the scholars who study African archaeobotany, i.e. the complex and composite history of plant uses and environmental transformations during the Holocene.
