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Informationen zum Autor Derek R. Peterson is a senior lecturer in African history and director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Creative Writing: Translation! Bookkeeping! and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya and editor of The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History. Giacomo Macola is a lecturer in African history at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Kingdom of Kazembe: History and Politics in North-Eastern Zambia and Katanga to 1950 and one of the editors of One Zambia! Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-colonial Zambia. Klappentext The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa's thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. "As a group, the contributors and editors of Recasting the Past constitute one of the most impressive cohorts of scholars brought together in a collective volume project in the past three decades. This work will be required reading for any individual venturing into serious study of Africa's past." - David William Cohen - The University of Michigan "Collectively the authors of Recasting the Past are to be saluted, as are their editors. As an assertion of the vibrancy of Christian Africa's history of ideas in the twentieth century, this collection could hardly be richer." - International Journal of African Historical Studies "This collection accomplishes what no monograph could because these nuanced inquiries each require deep expertise. The variety of questions posed here suggests many ways that professional historians could appreciate more fully the production of historical knowledge in Africa. Students of African intellectual history will come away better able to appreciate the deep and multiple roots that generate the production of culture in Africa." - American Historical Review Zusammenfassung The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view....
