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Description:: This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their shifting slaving practices from their arrival in the region...
Keyword:: Atlantic World, Slavery, and African History
Subject:: African history
Creator:: Abreu Lelitão de Almeida, Marcos
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_760202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15214

Description:: This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...
Keyword:: Ateker, Teso, Historical Linguistics, Karimojong, Turkana, and Uganda
Subject:: African history, Sub Saharan Africa studies, and Linguistics
Creator:: Fitzsimons, William
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15257 and etdadmin_upload_764137

Description:: Historians have long argued that humanitarianism—what Thomas Haskell once described as “alleviating the suffering of distant strangers”—first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as part of a complex set of perceptual changes involving capitalist growth, Enlightenment ideas, and Christian values. Given these claims, it is no coincidence that humanitarianism has often been...
Keyword:: humanitarianism, refuge, Acholi, Africa, Uganda, and aid
Subject:: African history
Creator:: Edwards, Mitchell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1012977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16733

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