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Our list of recent articles includes those published in the last three volumes of the IJAHS. For earlier articles please consult JSTOR or your local library.
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Copyright 2008 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University
Volume 41, Number 3, 2008
Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania, 1850–2000,
by N. Thomas Håkansson, Mats Widgren, Lowe Börjeson, 369 |
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Changes in Political Economy and Ecology in West-Usambara,
Tanzania: ca. 1850–1950,
by Frans D. Huijzendveld, 383 |
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Mastering the Landscape? Sisal Plantations, Land, and Labor in
Tanga Region, 1893–1980s,
by Hanan Sabea, 411 |
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Regional Political Ecology and Intensive Cultivation in
Pre-Colonial and Colonial South Pare, Tanzania,
by N. Thomas Håkansson,
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The Expansion of Traditional Irrigation in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania,
by Mattias Tagseth ,461 |
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Tanzanian Ritual Perimetrics and African Landscapes:
The Case of Dracaena,
by Michael Sheridan, 491 |
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Northeast Tanzania’s Disappearing Rangelands: Historical
Perspectives on Recent Land Use Change,
by Lowe Börjeson, Dorothy L. Hodgson, and Pius Z. Yanda, 523 |
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Preserving the New Tanzania: Conservation and Land Use Change,
by Dan Brockington, Hassan Sachedina, and Katherine
Scholfield, 557 |
Volume 41, Number 2, 2008
Oil, Politics, and Development in the Formation of a State: The Congolese Petroleum Wars, 1963–68
by Kairn A. Klieman, 169
Autochthony and Ethnic Cleansing in the Post-Colony: The 1966 Tombel Disturbances in Cameroon
by Piet Konings, 203
"The Remedy for Hunger is Bending the Back”: Maize and British Agricultural Policy in Southwestern Tanzania 1920–1960
by Catherine Cymone Fourshey, 223
The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1920–1921: A Symptomatic Reading
by Opolot Okia, 263
African Collaborators and Their Quest for Power in Colonial Kenya: Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung’u’s Rise from Obscurity to Prominence, 1890–1922
by Evanson N. Wamagatta, 295
Volume 41, Number 1, 2008
View from the Village: Changing Settlement Patterns in Sisalaland, Northern Ghana
by Natalie Swanepoel, 1
Living with a Tyrant: Ndau Memories and Identities in the Shadow of Ngungunyan
by Elizabeth MacGonagle, 29
Kongo Slavery Remembered by Themselves: Texts from 1915
by Wyatt MacGaffey, 55
The Organization of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Yorubaland, ca. 1777 to ca. 1856
by Olatunji Ojo, 77
Samuel Hodges, Jr., and the Symbiosis of Slave and “Legitimate” Trades, 1810s–1820s
by George E. Brooks, 101
Copyright 2007 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University
Volume 40, Number 3, 2007
Islamic Legal Culture and Slave-Ownership Contests in Nineteenth-Century Sahara
by Ghislaine Lydon, 391
Curing the Cancer of the Colony: Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, and Socioeconomic Struggle in German East Africa
by Steven Fabian, 441
The Origins, Context, and Political Significance of the Mushala Rebellion Against the Zambian One-Party State
by Miles Larmer and Giacomo Macola, 471
The Role of Cape Verdeans in War Mobilization and War Prevention in Portugal’s African Empire, 1955–1965
by Alexander Keese, 497
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Copyright 2007 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University
Volume 40, Number 2, 2007
Urbanizing Mystical Islam: Making Murid Space in the Cities of Senegal
by Cheikh Anta Babou, 197
“Oziosi, vagabondi e pregiudicati”: Labor, Law, and Crime in Colonial Asmara, 1890–1941
by Francesca Locatelli, 225
Black But Not African: Francophone Black Diaspora and the Revue des Colonies, 1834–1842
by Kelly Duke Bryant, 251
The Master Narrative of South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting June 16, 1976
by Gary Baines, 283
Volume 40, Number 1, 2007
Special Issue: Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa
Guest Editors: Andrew Burton and Michael Jennings
Introduction: The Emperor’s New Clothes? Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa
by Andrew Burton and Michael Jennings, 1
Creating Continuity: Liberal Governance and Dissidence in Njombe, Tanzania, 1960–61
by James L. Giblin, 27
The Lanet Incident, 2–25 January 1964: Military Unrest and National Amnesia in Kenya
by Timothy Parsons, 51
“A Very Real War”: Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s & 1960s
by Michael Jennings, 71
Useful Instruments of Participation? Local Government and Cooperatives in Tanzania, 1940s to 1970s
by Andreas Eckert, 97
The Haven of Peace Purged: Tackling the Undesirable and Unproductive Poor in Dar es Salaam, ca. 1950s–1980s
by Andrew Burton, 119
Volume 39, Number 3, 2006
Pastoralism, Slavery, Commerce, Culture and the Fate of the Nubians of Northern And Central Kordofan under Dar Fur Rule, ca.1750–ca.1850
by Jay Spaulding, 393
“Landlords of Onitsha”: Urban Land, Accumulation, and Debates over Custom in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, ca. 1880–1945
by Patrick Mbajekwe, 413
Fashioning Sexuality: Desire, Manyema Ethnicity, and the Creation of the Kanga, ca. 1880–1900
by Sheryl McCurdy, 441
Volume 39, Number 2, 2006
“A Solitary Tree Builds Not”: Heshima, Community, and Shifting Identity in Post-Emancipation Pemba Island
by Elisabeth McMahon, 197
“The Rupee Disease”: Taxation, Authority, and Social Conditions in Early Colonial Uganda
by Michael W. Tuck, 221
Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Ann O’Hear, 247
War and Mobility in the Borderlands of South Western Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
by Tilman Dedering, 275
Volume 39, Number 1, 2006
"Not a 'Cloth Giver'": Entitlement, Hunger and Illicit Transfers on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890
by Ruth Rempel, 1
"A Little Bit Like a Valcano"-The United Progressive Party and Resistance to One-Party Rule in Zambia, 1964-1980
by Miles Larmer, 49
"We Are Made Quiet by This Annihilation": Historicizing Concepts of Bodily Pollution and Dangerous Sexuality in South Africa
by Benedict Carton, 85
People, Not Pots: Locally Produced Ceramics and Identity on the Nineteenth-Century East African Coast,
by Sarah Croucher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones, 107 Publications Subscriptions Journal/IJAHS Top
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