Charles Ambler

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ID100496
NOMBRECharles Ambler
NOMBRESCharles
APELLIDOAmbler
FIRMAAMBLER C
AFILIACIONESWest Virginia University
ORCID0000-0001-6994-6759
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS72
TOTAL DE CITAS176
TOTAL COMO AUTOR70
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1914
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H8

  • Popular Ideas of Freedom in Decolonizing Nigeria

    Charles AmblerARTICLEComparativ2024

    This essay draws on the Lagos press and other contemporary sources to explore popular understandings of the meanings of freedom in the decade preceding independence in Nigeria. In a period marked both by enormous optimism and considerable anxiety, the Nigerian urban public grappled with the prospect of a new order, what the political activist and commentator Magnus Williams described in 1952 as the “inexhaustible feast of freedom”. Although abstr…

  • Drugs in Africa from the Slave Trade to Colonialism

    Charles AmblerCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Global Drug…2022

    This chapter explores the transformation of African drug production, consumption, and trade from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. It centers on relationships between increasingly intrusive international trades and long-rooted regional systems of drug production and consumption. Drug products affected the Atlantic, Saharan, and Indian Ocean slaving systems, and the expansion of European power into the continent transformed and extended…

  • Alcohol and the Slave Trade in West Africa, 1400–1850

    Charles AmblerCHAPTERDrugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion2022

  • African Performances

    Open AccessCharles AmblerARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2022Referencias: 4

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  • The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall

    Charles AmblerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2020

    Reviewed by: The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall Charles Ambler Chris S. Duvall. The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-1-4780-0394-6). The African Roots of Marijuana is a path-breaking work of scholarship. Not only is it the first continental study of the history of cannabis in Africa, it is the first full-length work that deals systematically with the history of cannabis…

  • Reflections on West Africa's Women of God

    Charles AmblerARTICLEJournal of Africana Religions2018Referencias: 12

    This brief discussion of Robert Baum's recent book, West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, is based on comments made at a roundtable devoted to the work at the 2016 meeting of the American Academy of Religion. This commentary looks at Baum's work from the perspective of African history, including reflections on Baum's training as a historian. Focus is given to the persistent influence of Robin Horton's work on …

  • A Companion to African History

    Open AccessWilliam H Worger, Charles Ambler et al.BOOKCompanion to African History2018Citada por: 7

  • Guinea-Bissau

    Charles AmblerARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2017

    In 2009 the small West African state of Guinea-Bissau made a dramatic appearance in the international media. Within the space of a single day, the military chief of staff, Tagme Na’ Waie, was kille

  • The specter of degeneration

    Open AccessCharles AmblerCHAPTERGlobal Anti-Vice Activism,…2016

    [The campaign against] The liquor traffic among the native races of Western Africa is being used as a formidable weapon of attack upon the moral, social and economic forces and problems of our national life and existence. It is essentially a race question involving important issues and large interests. In October 1908 an African journalist published a commentary in the Lagos Standard that explored at length “the great controversy which is raging …

  • Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950

    Open AccessRobert Kramm-Masaoka, Philippa Levine et al.BOOKGlobal Anti-Vice Activism,…2016

    Vice was one of the primary shared interests of the global community at the turn of the twentieth century. Anti-vice activists worked to combat noxious substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, and 'immoral' sexual activities such as prostitution. Nearly all of these activists approached the issue of vice by expressing worries about the body, its physical health, and functionality. By situating anti-vice politics in their broader historic…

  • Drugs in Africa

    Open AccessGernot Klantschnig, Neil Carrier et al.BOOKDrugs in Africa2014

    This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of lead

  • Projecting the Modern Colonial State

    Open AccessCharles AmblerCHAPTERFilm and the End of Empire2011

  • "A School in the Interior" African Studies

    Open AccessCharles AmblerARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2011Citada por: 1Referencias: 26

    This article explores the intellectual traditions of African studies, focusing on the central principles of interdisciplinarity and commitment to social and racial justice. Tracing the origins of the field to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African is t intellectuals such as Edward Blyden, it investigates these traditions historically and in the context of contemporary practice. Against the backdrop of concerns for the future of area…

  • A Dangerous Medium

    Charles AmblerARTICLESouth African Historical Journal2007

    The editors of this volume have been instrumental in focusing these debates on film in Africa - first in an important conference that they organised at Cape Town in 2002 (and the publications that flowed out of it) and now with this volume of essays devoted to examination of films that explore aspects of African history

  • Flickering Shadows

    Charles Ambler, Jeffrey M BurnsARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002Citada por: 10

    Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. This volume explores the little-known world of colonial cinema. J.M. Burns pieces together the history of the cinema in Rhodesia, examining film production, audience reception and state censorship, to reconstruct the story of how Africans in one nation be…

  • Leisure in African History

    E Akyeampong, Charles AmblerARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002Citada por: 29

    Emmanuel Akyeampong, Charles Ambler, Leisure in African History: An Introduction, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 1-16

  • Mass Media and Leisure in Africa

    Charles AmblerARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002Citada por: 9

    L'A. se propose d'identifier un certain nombre de questions critiques posees par l'explosion de la video en Afrique contemporaine afin d'explorer egalement l'histoire a plus long terme de la communication de masse comme vehicule des activites de loisir. Il centre notamment son analyse sur la constitution historique des differentes audiences, explorant l'interaction entre les aspirations au plaisir et au divertissement des publics africains, le de…

  • Popular Films and Colonial Audiences

    Charles AmblerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001Citada por: 15

  • Popular Films and Colonial Audiences

    Charles AmblerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001Citada por: 6

    Journal Article Popular Films and Colonial Audiences: The Movies in Northern Rhodesia Get access Charles Ambler Charles Ambler Charles Ambler is head of the Graduate School and a professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. He received his PhD at Yale University in modern African history. The author of Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism (1988) and co-editor of Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa (1992), Ambler has publish…

  • African Historians and African Voices

    Charles Ambler, E S Atieno OdhiamboARTICLEThe International Journal of…2001

  • Labour in Southern Africa

    M Epprecht, J Crush et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1998

    South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc) is meant to purge the evil of the apartheid era from the nation's body politic. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, police, medical doctors, government ministers, and anti-apartheid activists have so far all volunteered graphic testimony of torture, assassinations, destabilization of neighbouring countries, and other crimes against humanity. Perhaps not surprisingly, however, no one …

  • Urbanisation from Below

    Charles Ambler, Matsuda Motoji et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1998Citada por: 2

  • Trouble Showed the Way

    Charles Ambler, Carol E Robertson et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1998Citada por: 8

  • Kikuyu Gender Norms and Narratives

    Charles Ambler, I BrinkmanARTICLEThe International Journal of…1997

  • Histories of the Hanged

    Charles Ambler

    Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. By David Anderson. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. Pp. 406; 44 illustrations. $25.95. Mau Mau is a signal event not only in Kenyan history, but in the broad histories of empire, colonialism, and decolonization. Almost from the moment of the rebellion's inception, participants, officials, politicians, journalists, novelists, filmmakers, and scholars set about providing accounts of…