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Western Approaches to African History. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

William Freund
William Freund
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Harvard University
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 403 - 407
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1987

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References

1 Crummey, Donald and Stewart, Charles, eds., Modes of Production in Africa; The Precolonial Era (Beverly Hills & London: Sage, 1981Google Scholar).

2 Clarence-Smith, W. G., “Slaves, Commoners and Landlords in Bulozi c. 1875–1906,” Journal of African History, XX (1979)Google Scholar and “For Braudel: a note on the Ecole des Annales and the historiography of Africa,” History in Africa, IV (1977)Google Scholar.

3 The school Prins represents has received important critiques, most recently in Temu, A. J. and Swai, Bonaventure, African History and Historians, (London: Zed Press, 1981Google Scholar). I have myself tried to take its measure in the introductory chapter of my The Making of Contemporary Africa (London: Macmillan Press, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984Google Scholar).