Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Phiri, Kings Mbacazwa, 1949-
2. Fiedler, K. (Klaus), 1942-
3. Ross, Kenneth R.
4. Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver

Description

1. 531 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Series statement

1. Mzuni books ; no. 40

Uniform title

1. Mzuni books ; no. 40.

Subject

1. McCracken, John, 1938-
2. Christianity > Malawi
3. Africanists > Great Britain > Biography
4. Africanists > Malawi > Biography
5. Christianisme > Malawi
6. Africanistes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies
7. Africanistes > Malawi > Biographies
8. Malawi
9. Christianity
10. social history
11. political history
12. economic history
13. biographies (form)
14. essays (form)
15. Africanists
16. Christianity
17. Historiography
18. Malawi > Historiography
19. Malawi > History
20. Malawi > Historiographie
21. Malawi > Histoire
22. Great Britain
23. Malawi

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. History

Contents

1. Introduction: John McCracken and Malawi's history / Kenneth R. Ross, Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu -- John McCracken : an Africanist to remember / John Lonsdale -- John McCracken : an historian to remember / Megan Vaughan -- John McCracken : a Malawianist to remember / Kings M. Phiri -- John McCracken and the development of Malawi historiography / Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu -- Medicine, politics and Christian networks : John McCracken and the historiography of medicine in Malawi / Markku Hokkanen -- The development of Malawian Church historiography / Klaus Fiedler -- State power, African agency and peasants' food security in early colonial Malawi, 1891-1918 / Bryson Nkhoma -- Africa is and education : vernacular language and the missionary encounter in nineteenth-century Malawi / Harri Englund -- Mothercraft in the DRCM : Mthenga newspaper, missionary wives and African women / Hendrina Kachapila -- They were kept outside but their interest was inside : examining the role of African women in the construction of social identities in colonial Malawi / Dorothy Tembo -- The contested legacy of Malawi's decolonization process, 1944-1994 / Paul Chiudza Banda, Gift Wasambo Kayira -- Christianity and nationalism in Karonga Hills : the tale of two brothers during the late colonial period 1954-1960 / Augustine Chingwala Musopole -- Limits to state power in post-independence development in Malawi, 1964-1983 / Gift Wasambo Kayira -- Pastors, priests, prophets : poverty and Christian religion in Malawi 1861 to 2018 / John Chipembere Lwanda -- The influence of Christian religious authority in education : a trajectory of religious education in Malawi schools from 1875 to 2018 / Macloud Frank Salanjira -- African agency in Malawian neocharismatic churches / Felix Nyika -- Dividing the nation or promoting unity? : ethnic based associations and production of heritage in Malawi / Mwayi Lusaka -- John McCracken's contribution to Malawi's urban history / Ruth Mandala -- Ecological change and food security : state interventions into peasant agriculture in colonial Malawi, 1891-1960 / Bryson Nkhoma -- Andrew Ross, John McCracken and Jack Thompson : three Malawi historians and their influence on Scotland-Malawi relations today / Kenneth R. Ross.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.