Pierluigi Valsecchi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 123114 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pierluigi Valsecchi |
| NOMBRES | Pierluigi |
| APELLIDO | Valsecchi |
| FIRMA | VALSECCHI P |
| AFILIACIONES | Africa Center |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Chère Claude-Hélène »
Claude-Hélène Perrot s’en est allée le 16 juillet 2019, dans sa quatre-vingt-onzième année. Sa carrière d’historienne, longue de sept décennies, fut rythmée par la production de nombreuses recherches fondamentales consacrées aux régions de la Côte d’Ivoire orientale dont l’exceptionnelle qualité lui valut de prestigieuses distinctions académiques. Nous lui rendons ici, par ce témoignage personnel, un dernier hommage
Early modern European-language sources on African slavery
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
How Kwadwo Regained His Freedom and Put the Slave-Traders in Big Trouble
African Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Manuscript of Jean Godot
In Cameroon, a country of Central Africa which stretched from Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea, slavery had a triple dimension. Slavery and the slave trade had the particularity of increasing in Adamawa at the very moment when abolition was spreading in other parts of the world. This chapter presents three documents, which localizes the region concerned and presents some facets of slavery as it developed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Adamaw…
Power and State Formation in West Africa
Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured
Big Men, Imperial Dynamics, and Local Powers
T he power vacuum created in 1701 by the Asante victory over Denkyira strengthened the role of polities like Aowin and Wassa in the western Gold Coast. However Asante lost little time in making its influence felt in regional questions and asserting its own strategic interests in the tangle of interests and rivalries among large and small powers. In the area that concerns us here, this introduced a period marked by repeated outbreaks of fierce war…
The New Maanle of Appolonia
N zema historical traditions recorded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1 which are confirmed by local accounts gathered by the Dutch back in 1763 and 1765, 2 all indicate that the “Kingdom of Appolonia” resulted from the military, diplomatic, commercial, and financial activities of four leaders belonging to the same generation. They are Anɔ Bile Aka, Anɔ Bɔnlɔmane, 3 Boa Kpanyinli, and Amihyia Kpanyinli, who were active through the eigh…
History and Identity
Convention has it that the name Appolonia or Apollonia derives from the application of the name for the area known as the Cape Apollonia to a larger political unit, the ancient “Kingdom of Appolonia,” which in the nineteenth century was also called Amanahea (or Amelhayia ). 1 This polity developed during the eighteenth century in the western section of the Nzema region—the territories situated between the Ankobra River to the east and the lagoons…
Changes in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
I n the mid-seventeenth century, the area between the Ankobra and the Tano was linguistically heterogeneous and divided up into several distinct political units, although there appear to have been some important shared cultural features and at least some of these units were bound by political links of some force. However, these links fell short of the formal confederal structure that Valckenburgh claimed to be in place. The glue that held togethe…
Warning Signs of a Shifting Balance
D uring the second half of the seventeenth century, the Gold Coast underwent revolutionary changes that transformed the political, human, demographic, social, and economic features first of forest areas and then the region as a whole. According to R. Kea, the old mercantile-agrarian system entered into decline due to mounting social tensions as the growing demand from ruling groups for resources to trade for imported commodities led to increased …
Formation des États et alliances intercommunautaires dans la Côte d’Or (xviie-xviiie siècles)
L’article examine les étapes parcourues par la recherche historique dans cette région, qui s’est focalisée sur l’histoire de l’occupation de la forêt, les matriclans devenant le critère déterminant régissant les relations entre groupes dominants et groupes dominés. Cependant l’historiographie des sociétés akan ne doit pas se borner aux limites d’entités politiques et historiques ou dites « ethniques », et doit s’étendre aux réseaux de relations o…
Mondes Akan
Pierluigi Valsecchi and Fabio Viti(eds), Mondes akan : identité et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale Akan Worlds: identity and power in West Africa.Paris: Harmattan1999, 261 pp., ISBN 2 7384 8513 8 (paperback). - Volume 72 Issue 1
The 'True Nzema
Nzema has been used historically as a multiple term to describe different but interrelated social, political and territorial realities. Failure to understand the historical context fully has led to persistent ambiguity in writings about the area, especially in anthropological studies. The tendency is to isolate 'ethnic groups' as precise categories in a broad context which in reality is covered by a pervasive network of continua. This article dea…
Mondes Akan
The 'True Nzema
Nzema has been used historically as a multiple term to describe different but interrelated social, political and territorial realities. Failure to understand the historical context fully has led to persistent ambiguity in writings about the area, especially in anthropological studies. The tendency is to isolate 'ethnic groups' as precise categories in a broad context which in reality is covered by a pervasive network of continua. This article dea…
Mondes Akan
The 'True Nzema
Nzema has been used historically as a multiple term to describe different but interrelated social, political and territorial realities. Failure to understand the historical context fully has led to persistent ambiguity in writings about the area, especially in anthropological studies. The tendency is to isolate 'ethnic groups' as precise categories in a broad context which in reality is covered by a pervasive network of continua. This article dea…
Mondes Akan
Pierluigi Valsecchi and Fabio Viti(eds), Mondes akan : identité et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale Akan Worlds: identity and power in West Africa.Paris: Harmattan1999, 261 pp., ISBN 2 7384 8513 8 (paperback). - Volume 72 Issue 1
Formation des États et alliances intercommunautaires dans la Côte d’Or (xviie-xviiie siècles)
L’article examine les étapes parcourues par la recherche historique dans cette région, qui s’est focalisée sur l’histoire de l’occupation de la forêt, les matriclans devenant le critère déterminant régissant les relations entre groupes dominants et groupes dominés. Cependant l’historiographie des sociétés akan ne doit pas se borner aux limites d’entités politiques et historiques ou dites « ethniques », et doit s’étendre aux réseaux de relations o…
Power and State Formation in West Africa
Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured
Big Men, Imperial Dynamics, and Local Powers
T he power vacuum created in 1701 by the Asante victory over Denkyira strengthened the role of polities like Aowin and Wassa in the western Gold Coast. However Asante lost little time in making its influence felt in regional questions and asserting its own strategic interests in the tangle of interests and rivalries among large and small powers. In the area that concerns us here, this introduced a period marked by repeated outbreaks of fierce war…
The New Maanle of Appolonia
N zema historical traditions recorded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1 which are confirmed by local accounts gathered by the Dutch back in 1763 and 1765, 2 all indicate that the “Kingdom of Appolonia” resulted from the military, diplomatic, commercial, and financial activities of four leaders belonging to the same generation. They are Anɔ Bile Aka, Anɔ Bɔnlɔmane, 3 Boa Kpanyinli, and Amihyia Kpanyinli, who were active through the eigh…
History and Identity
Convention has it that the name Appolonia or Apollonia derives from the application of the name for the area known as the Cape Apollonia to a larger political unit, the ancient “Kingdom of Appolonia,” which in the nineteenth century was also called Amanahea (or Amelhayia ). 1 This polity developed during the eighteenth century in the western section of the Nzema region—the territories situated between the Ankobra River to the east and the lagoons…
Changes in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
I n the mid-seventeenth century, the area between the Ankobra and the Tano was linguistically heterogeneous and divided up into several distinct political units, although there appear to have been some important shared cultural features and at least some of these units were bound by political links of some force. However, these links fell short of the formal confederal structure that Valckenburgh claimed to be in place. The glue that held togethe…
Warning Signs of a Shifting Balance
D uring the second half of the seventeenth century, the Gold Coast underwent revolutionary changes that transformed the political, human, demographic, social, and economic features first of forest areas and then the region as a whole. According to R. Kea, the old mercantile-agrarian system entered into decline due to mounting social tensions as the growing demand from ruling groups for resources to trade for imported commodities led to increased …
How Kwadwo Regained His Freedom and Put the Slave-Traders in Big Trouble
African Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Manuscript of Jean Godot
In Cameroon, a country of Central Africa which stretched from Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea, slavery had a triple dimension. Slavery and the slave trade had the particularity of increasing in Adamawa at the very moment when abolition was spreading in other parts of the world. This chapter presents three documents, which localizes the region concerned and presents some facets of slavery as it developed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Adamaw…
Early modern European-language sources on African slavery
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
Chère Claude-Hélène »
Claude-Hélène Perrot s’en est allée le 16 juillet 2019, dans sa quatre-vingt-onzième année. Sa carrière d’historienne, longue de sept décennies, fut rythmée par la production de nombreuses recherches fondamentales consacrées aux régions de la Côte d’Ivoire orientale dont l’exceptionnelle qualité lui valut de prestigieuses distinctions académiques. Nous lui rendons ici, par ce témoignage personnel, un dernier hommage
History (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras)