M Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 14727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4851-3695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 369 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Moving Beyond Race, Gender, and Education
Data on poverty status reveals that there is a distinct sub-population of individuals who are at a significantly greater risk of being chronically poor. Although many researchers have examined the demographic characteristics of individuals who are the most likely to be persistently poor, the emphasis has been on race, sex, and education. Little attention has been paid to the role that disability might play in long-term poverty. Therefore, the obj…
Local Responses to Global Issues in Samburu, Kenya and Ladakh, India
Apologizing for historical injustice
The recent apology by the Australian Prime Minister to Indigenous Australians demonstrates the increasing willingness of nation states to apologize for historical injustices. In this critical discursive analysis of Rudd’s apology, we analyse the pragmatic and linguistic features of the apology in light of recent research on political apologies as a generic type of discourse. We demonstrate how the act of offering and justifying an apology was acc…
Life and technology in everyday life
The life history and career of one master iron smelter, Mzee Stefano Malimbo of Ufipa in southwestern Tanzania, serves as the base for a retrieval of social history in the twentieth century. By paying special attention to the persistence of smelting, signaled by the reconstruction of his furnaces in 1936, this article explores the demand for the distinctive, large Fipa hoe in the light of economic activities at a time which, while still economica…
The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936
Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories 2. Legal culture, state making and colonialism Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing 4. Criminology 5. Prisons and penology 6. Criminal law 7. Criminalising political opposition Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law 9. Marriage and race 10. The legal profession Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Afric…
The Moral World of the Law
List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction Peter Coss 2. The language of law in classical Athens S. C. Todd 3. The autonomy of Roman law Andrew D. E. Lewis 4. Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts Wendy Davies 5. Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune Paul Hyams 6. Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages Paul B…
Effectiveness of denial of handgun purchase to persons believed to be at high risk for firearm violence
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether denial of handgun purchase is an effective violence prevention strategy. METHODS: Individuals denied handgun purchase because of a prior felony conviction and handgun purchasers with a felony arrest at time of purchase were examined. RESULTS: Relative to those denied purchase, handgun purchasers were found to be at greater risk for subsequent offenses involving a gun (relative risk [R…
An old nationalist in new nationalist times
Donald Siwale took the positive view that governance in colonial Northern Rhodesia could be beneficial to the people. He was a pace‐setter amongst the early educated elite and served in numerous capacities as a mediator. He was also a moralist and social critic. This article examines his thought and career in the late colonial period, when he straddled between prominence in the African National Congress and positions within the hierarchy built up…
Late quaternary landscape history and archaeology in the ?Ice-Free Corridor
Divided Sisterhood
Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century . Catherine Coles , Beverly Mack Women of Phokeng
Strategies of Slaves and Women
General Introduction - PART I: WOMEN IN PERIL - Prelude to p Texts & Contexts - Grandmother Narwimba - Msatulwa M wachitete - Chisi-Ndjurisiye-Sichyajunga - Mama Meli - PAR T II: HISTORY AT THE TURN - Justice, WOmen, and the Social Order - Bwanikwa - Tatu Mulondeyelwa Recollected - Biblio graphy
Strategies of Slaves and Women
Strategies of Slaves and Women
Books reviewed
Robertshaw, Peter, ed., A History of African Archaeology, (James Currey, London), 1990, vii + 389pp, £15.95/£35.00 Saul Dubow, Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36 (St Antony's Macmillan Series, Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1989, v + 250pp. Ruth First and Ann Scott, Olive Schreiner (The Women's Press, London), 1989
People and Production in Late Precolonial Tanzania
A Modern History of Kenya
Journal Article A Modern History of Kenya Get access A Modern History of Kenya, edited by William R. Ochieng'. Evans Bros., London, 1989. 259 pp. £10.50 paperback. ISBN 0 237 51082 0. MARCIA WRIGHT MARCIA WRIGHT Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 361, October 1991, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098475 Published: 01 October 1991
Death resulting from motor vehicle immersions
We present an epidemiologic characterization of deaths from motor vehicle immersions, based on 77 deaths in 63 motor vehicle immersions in Sacramento County, CA, during 1974-85. All persons were autopsied; all but one of the deaths were due to drowning. Average annual mortality rates per million person years were 12 for males, four for females, 30 for Hispanics, six for White non-Hispanics, Blacks and Asians. Seventy-one percent of drivers and 60…
The Ecology of Survival
Horn and Crescent
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Autobiographies, histoires de vie et biographies de femmes africaines en tant que textes militants
M. Wright -- African Women : Autobiographies, Life Stories and Biographies as Campaign Texts. Taking as examples a number of Central African women's biographies, the author attempts to show that these narratives in fact belong to what she calls 'campaign texts'. Focusing on fundamental elements of social life (marriage, etc.), these texts aim at reinterpreting these women's lives, showing them in a favourable light. This article thus sets the lim…
Drowning in childhood and adolescence
We present the results of a residence-based study of drownings among Sacramento County, California children and adolescents ages 0-19 years for the years 1974-84. Children ages 1-3 had the highest drowning rates. The majority of drownings in this group, and one-third of all drownings in the study, occurred in residential swimming pools. Males ages 15-19 had a high drowning rate as well; at least 38 per cent of drownings in that age group were alc…
Tambalika
Journal Article TAMBALIKA: PERSPECTIVES ON A COLONIAL MAGISTRATE IN CENTRAL AFRICA MARCIA WRIGHT MARCIA WRIGHT professor African history at Columbia UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 338, January 1986, Pages 13–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097751 Published: 01 January 1986
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
African Women and the Law
Strategies of Slaves and Women
General Introduction - PART I: WOMEN IN PERIL - Prelude to p Texts & Contexts - Grandmother Narwimba - Msatulwa M wachitete - Chisi-Ndjurisiye-Sichyajunga - Mama Meli - PAR T II: HISTORY AT THE TURN - Justice, WOmen, and the Social Order - Bwanikwa - Tatu Mulondeyelwa Recollected - Biblio graphy
A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar
Divided Sisterhood
Apologizing for historical injustice
The recent apology by the Australian Prime Minister to Indigenous Australians demonstrates the increasing willingness of nation states to apologize for historical injustices. In this critical discursive analysis of Rudd’s apology, we analyse the pragmatic and linguistic features of the apology in light of recent research on political apologies as a generic type of discourse. We demonstrate how the act of offering and justifying an apology was acc…
Local Roots of Policy in German East Africa
The standard history of the German period in Tanzania has been seriously marred by imperial rivalries and excessive concentration on metropolitan aspects of German policy-making. In the period to 1907, which has heretofore been written off as a time of punitive expeditions and absence of administrative direction, the government in fact developed a secular state education service. The standard curriculum generated by the state was later adopted by…
Britain and Germany in Africa
People and Production in Late Precolonial Tanzania
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique
Strategies of Slaves and Women
The power of power politics
Journal Article The power of power politics: a critique Get access The power of power politics: a critique. By John A. Vasquez. London: Pinter. 1983. 303 pp. Index. £16.50. M. Wright M. Wright 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983, Page 724, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619483 Published: 01 October 1983
Swahili Settlements in Northern Zambia and Malawi
Just as the history of European exploration has been placed in perspective and assimilated into the new historiography of Africa, so the history of the expansion of coastal trade with interior peoples must be reassessed and grounded in the African context. To investigate the social and economic implications of the Swahili- speaking communities which became established in northern Zambia and Malawi, it is necessary first to examine them in terms o…
Effectiveness of denial of handgun purchase to persons believed to be at high risk for firearm violence
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether denial of handgun purchase is an effective violence prevention strategy. METHODS: Individuals denied handgun purchase because of a prior felony conviction and handgun purchasers with a felony arrest at time of purchase were examined. RESULTS: Relative to those denied purchase, handgun purchasers were found to be at greater risk for subsequent offenses involving a gun (relative risk [R…
State and nation in the Third World
Journal Article State and nation in the Third World: the Western state and African nationalism Get access State and nation in the Third World: the Western state and African nationalism. By Anthony D. Smith. Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf. 1983. 171 pp. £15.95. Pb.: £4.95. M. Wright M. Wright 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, S…
The Ecology of Survival
Drowning in childhood and adolescence
We present the results of a residence-based study of drownings among Sacramento County, California children and adolescents ages 0-19 years for the years 1974-84. Children ages 1-3 had the highest drowning rates. The majority of drownings in this group, and one-third of all drownings in the study, occurred in residential swimming pools. Males ages 15-19 had a high drowning rate as well; at least 38 per cent of drownings in that age group were alc…
Leadership in Eastern Africa
Technology, marriage and women's work in the history of Maize-Growers in Mazabuka, Zambia
This paper concerns the ways in which marriage patterns and command of capital resources, agricultural implements in particular, have been linked in Mazabuka, southern Zambia, where the polygynous nuclear family has emerged as a manifestation of successful commercial farming. 1 The aim is essentially historical: to retrieve something of the situation of family and production in the early years of the twentieth century; to follow the rise of pater…
Life and technology in everyday life
The life history and career of one master iron smelter, Mzee Stefano Malimbo of Ufipa in southwestern Tanzania, serves as the base for a retrieval of social history in the twentieth century. By paying special attention to the persistence of smelting, signaled by the reconstruction of his furnaces in 1936, this article explores the demand for the distinctive, large Fipa hoe in the light of economic activities at a time which, while still economica…
Strategies of Slaves and Women
Iron and Regional History
In 1979, after several years of preliminary research on the regional history of South Rukwa, I drew up a project proposal for an historical study of iron workers and agricultural systems. The project won the support of the Fulbright-Hays program, gained research clearance from the National Scientific Research Council of Tanzania, and was assigned to the Research Department of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. My research coordinator was t…
Politics and human nature
Journal Article Politics and human nature Get access Politics and human nature. Edited by Ian Forbesand Steve Smith. London: Pinter. 1983. 198 pp. Index. £14.00. M. Wright M. Wright 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617596 Published: 01 July 1984
European Powers and South-East Africa
Horn and Crescent
The Tanganyika Archives
European Powers and South-East Africa
Local Roots of Policy in German East Africa
The standard history of the German period in Tanzania has been seriously marred by imperial rivalries and excessive concentration on metropolitan aspects of German policy-making. In the period to 1907, which has heretofore been written off as a time of punitive expeditions and absence of administrative direction, the government in fact developed a secular state education service. The standard curriculum generated by the state was later adopted by…
Britain and Germany in Africa
The Middle Age of African History
Kitawala
Christliche Terminologie und Katechismus-Gestaltung in der Mariannhiller Mission 1910-1920
Leadership in Eastern Africa
Lutheran Wartime Assistance to Tanzanian Churches 1940-1945
The Princes of Nyakyusa
The Concept of Aggression in International Politics
Swahili Settlements in Northern Zambia and Malawi
Just as the history of European exploration has been placed in perspective and assimilated into the new historiography of Africa, so the history of the expansion of coastal trade with interior peoples must be reassessed and grounded in the African context. To investigate the social and economic implications of the Swahili- speaking communities which became established in northern Zambia and Malawi, it is necessary first to examine them in terms o…
African History in the 1960's
Of all the “subfields” of African history, religion is in the most preliminary condition. It is also, in all probability, the most difficult to treat in an orderly fashion, owing to the constant spillover into other areas generally regarded to be more preemptive in modern historiography. Our task in isolating religion as a subfield entails in part an operation of retrieval from political, social, and intellectual sectors of the discipline. Proble…
German Missions in Tanganyika 1891-1941
German Missions in Tanganyika 1891-1941. Lutherans and Moravians in the Southern Highlands
Alliances and Balance of Power
History of East Africa, Volume III
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique
Books reviewed
R. W. Johnson, The Future of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1977. pp. viii + 328. £4.95 h.b., paper £1.95) W. A. De Klerk, Puritans in Africa: A Story of Afrikanerdom (London, Rex Collings, 1975). T. Dunbar Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid, and the Afrikaner Civil Religion (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London; University of California Press; 1975). Hendrik W. Van Der Merwe (ed), Identiteit en Verandering: Sewe Opstelle Oor die Afri…
Women in Africa
A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar
The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history. It criticised the prevailing view that African agriculture was primitive or backward, and attacked the notion that poverty and lack of development were a result of 'traditionalism'. Bundy's work introduced the idea that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century capitalist development in South Africa was increasingly hostile to peasant producer…
Contending Theories of International Relations
Journal Article Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey and Theories and Approaches to International Politics: What Are We to Think? Get access Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey. 2nd edn. By James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff. New York, London: Harper and Row. 1981. 592pp. Pb:£8.95.Theories and Approaches to International Politics: What Are We to Think?3rd edn. By Patri…
Masters of International Thought
L’Historien et les Relations Internationales
L’Historien et les Relations Internationales: Recueil d’études en hommage à Jacques Freymond L’Historien et les Relations Internationales: Recueil d’études en hommage à Jacques Freymond. Textes réunis par Saul Friedländer, Harish Kapurand André Reszler. Geneva: Institut universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales. 1981. 521 pp. Sw. frs. 60.00. M. Wright M. Wright 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author o…
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