Taifa - Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania

Informationen zum Autor James R. Brennan is an assistant professor in history at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles. Klappentext Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Zusammenfassung Offers an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. This book shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city.

Product details

• Authors: James R. Brennan
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2012
• EAN: 9780821420010
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2001-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New African Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories