Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks :: African employees in the making of colonial Africa /

Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants co...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas) (HerausgeberIn), Osborn, Emily Lynn (HerausgeberIn), Roberts, Richard L., 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
Schriftenreihe:Africa and the diaspora.
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Zusammenfassung:Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society. By uncovering the role of such men (and a few women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780299219536
0299219534
029921950X
9780299219505