Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960)
ISBN: 9789004307353
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brill
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Sociology;

Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to "selling" their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.


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