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Political Paternalism and Economic Parasitism: European Colonial Rule in Africa, 1880–1961

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KeeseAlexander, Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930–1961. Beitrage zur Europäischen Uberseegeschichte 93. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2007. 344 pp. ISBN: 978-3-515-09032-1 (pbk.).

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2010

Andrew F. Clark
Affiliation:
University of Cologne (Köln)
Jeremy Rich
Affiliation:
Middle Tennessee State University
Michael Zeuske
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina Wilmington

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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2008

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Notes

1 See: Zeuske, Michael, Sklaven und Sklaverei in den Welten des Atlantiks, 1400–1940. Umrisse, Anfänge, Akteure, Vergleichsfelder und Bibliografien. Münster/Hamburg/London: LIT Verlag, 2006Google Scholar (Sklaverei und Postemanzipation, ed. Michael Zeuske, Bd. 1) [Slaves and Slaveries in the Worlds of the Atlantic]; Zeuske, Schwarze Karibik. Sklaven, Sklavereikulturen und Emanzipation. Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2004 [Black Caribbean. Slaves, Cultures of Slavery, and Emancipation].

2 Handler, Jerome S., “Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados”, Slavery and Abolition, 19:1 (1998), 129–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Handler, , “Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America”, Slavery and Abolition 23 (2002), 2556.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Pertaining to the concept of agency in global perspective see Behrend, Stephen, Eltis, David, and Richardson, David, “The Costs of Coercion: African Agency in the Pre-modern Atlantic World”, Economic History Review 54/3 (2001), 454–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 de Alencastro, Luiz Felipe, O Trato dos Viventes. Formacão do Brasil no Atlantico Sul, seculos 16. e 17. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000.Google Scholar

5 Fabre, Geneviève, “The Slave Ship Dance”, in Diedrich, Maria, Gates, Henry Louis Jr., and Pedersen, Carl, eds., Black Imagination of the Middle Passage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 3346.Google Scholar

6 In full see: Michael Zeuske in: www.sehepunkte.de/2007/11/11377.html.