Ethnicity and the Colonial State - Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850-1960)

Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to "selling" their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.

About the author

Alexander Keese, Ph.D. (University of Freiburg, Germany, 2004), is SNSF Professor at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. He is the author of Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Keese
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2015
• EAN: 9789004307346
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30734-6
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories