Studies in power and class in Africa
- Title
- Studies in power and class in Africa / edited by Irving Leonard Markovitz.
- Published by
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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- Description
- xv, 400 pages : maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- Sheds light on the importance of state, religion, ideology, gender, ethnicity, language, and international relations in determining policy and understanding society in general.
- Subject
- Power (Social sciences)
- Elite (Social sciences) > Africa
- Social classes > Africa
- Women > Political activity > Africa
- Economic history
- Elite (Social sciences)
- Politics and government
- Social classes
- Women > Political activity
- political system
- political behaviour
- ruling class
- traditional culture
- social change
- women
- political ideology
- multinational enterprise
- bureaucracy
- statistical table
- Power (Social sciences) > Africa
- régime politique
- comportement politique
- classe dirigeante
- culture traditionnelle
- changement social
- femmes
- idéologie politique
- entreprise multinationale
- bureaucratie
- tableau statistique
- régimen político
- comportamiento político
- clase dirigente
- cultura tradicional
- cambio social
- mujeres
- ideología política
- empresa multinacional
- burocracia
- cuadros estadísticos
- Africa > Politics and government
- Africa > Economic conditions
- Africa
- Africa
- Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
- Afrique
- Genre/Form
- map.
- reference.
- carte géographique.
- référence bibliographique.
- mapa.
- referencia.
- Contents
- Revolution and the struggle for independence : capitalist development, class consciousness, and the state in world perspective. Contradiction, crisis, and class conflict : the state and capitalist development in Ghana prior to 1948 / Beverly Grier -- Anatomy of African class consciousness : agrarian populism in Ghana from 1915 to the 1940s and beyond / Martin Kilson -- Wars of liberation and the international system : Western Sahara-- a case in point / Jeffrey M. Schulman -- The consolidation of power : the fall of monarchy, the rise of absolutism, and the definition of the political arena. Absolutism, Bonapartism, and the formation of ruling classes : Zaire in comparative perspective / Thomas M. Callaghy -- The petite bourgeoisie in the Ethiopian revolution / Robert D. Grey.
- (cont.) The consolidation of power : schisms, fractions, coalitions, and contradictions in postindependence dominant classes. Class, status, and power in postreunification Cameroon : the rise of an Anglophone bourgeoisie, 1961-1980 / Ndiva Kofele-Kale -- Religion, ideology, and property in northern Zambia / George C. Bond -- The consolidation of power : woman's role in political and economic transformations. Women's politics, the state, and capitalist transformation in Africa / Kathleen Staudt -- Algerian women's access to power : 1962-1985 / Anne Lippert -- The encadrement of the population : the social basis of ideology and planning. From nationalism to Marxism : the ideological history of FRELIMO, 1962-1977 / Sonia Kruks -- Power, class, and traditional knowledge in Sahel food production / Richard W. Franke.
- (cont.) The encadrement of the population : the bureaucratic development and restructuring of labor and business in South Africa. Transnational corporations and the national bourgeoisie : regional expansion and party realignment in South Africa / Ronald T. Libby -- Managing class structures in South Africa : Bantustans and the underbelly of privilege / Stanley B. Greenberg, Hermann Giliomee.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 375-386.