The Spatial Factor In African History: The Relationship Of The Social, Material, and Perceptual (African Social Studies Series)

CONTENTS......Page 5
Titles and Locations of Maps and other Figures......Page 11
Introduction: African History and Social Space in Africa (Allen M. Howard and Richard M. Shain)......Page 13
Nodes, Networks, Landscapes, and Regions: Reading the Social History of Tropical Africa 1700s–1920 (Allen M. Howard)......Page 33
\"Region\" as Historical Production: Narrative Maps from the Western Serengeti, Tanzania (Jan Bender Shetler)......Page 153
Mobility, Genealogical Memory, and Constructions of Social Space in Northern Gabon (John M. Cinnamon)......Page 189
The Disappearing District? Territorial Transformation in Southern Gabon 1850–1950 (Christopher Gray)......Page 233
The Salt That Binds: The Historical Geography of a Central Nigerian Regional Identity (Richard M. Shain)......Page 257
Habitation and Warfare Strategies in 19th Century Mande—a View from the Kafu (Jan Jansen)......Page 273
Re-Marking on the Past: Spatial Structures and Dynamics in the Sierra Leone-Guinea Plain, 1860–1920s (Allen M. Howard)......Page 303
Abstracts......Page 361
Contributors......Page 365
Index......Page 367