Basil Davidson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81733 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Basil Davidson |
| NOMBRES | Basil |
| APELLIDO | Davidson |
| FIRMA | DAVIDSON B |
| AFILIACIONES | Transnational Press London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5082-7872 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 104 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 286 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1949 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky
“No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Though perhaps less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwh…
West Africa before the Colonial Era
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans
Modern Africa
Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows…
Mozambique diary
Between 1977 and 1979, Chris Searle taught in the newly liberated Mozambique. His diary of working in a secondary school was published as We're Building the New School! (London, Zed, 1981) and we reproduce here excerpts from its foreword by Basil Davidson, writing in January 1980
A model for the construction of conversational common ground in interpreted discourse
Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters
Physician-patient discourse, even same-language discourse, may be viewed as a type of cross-cultural interaction. Inside the US, there is a large and increasing number of adult Third World immigrant patients who do not speak English. For these patients the "cross-cultural" aspect of First World medical practice is underscored by the presence of the medical interpreter, who is herself faced with the task of negotiating both the content of utteranc…
The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper
Increases in immigration have led to an enormous growth in the number of cross-linguistic medical encounters taking place throughout the United States. In this article the role of hospital-based interpreters in cross-linguistic, internal medicine 'medical interviews' is examined. The interpreter's actions are analyzed against the historical and institutional context within which she is working, and also with an eye to the institutional goals that…
West Africa before the Colonial Era
1. The Early Centuries of Emergence: An Introduction. 2. Emergence of Trading States and Empires. 3. Pioneers in Ancient Ghana. 4. The Majesty of Mali. 5. Songhay Achievement. 6. Kanem-Bornu and the Hausa States. 7. Early Senegambia. 8. The Forest Kingdoms. 9. On the Threshold of Modern Times. 10. The Arts, Religion and Learning. 11. The Organisation of Society. 12. New Pressures. 13. Origins and Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade. 14. Senegambia…
Diagnosing Illness Across Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
Spanish is a pro-drop language in which first and second person subject pronouns are frequently omitted (80%); traditionally the function of overt subject pronouns has been regarded as adding emphasis or to contrast explicit statements. I argue that their function is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics;…
Modern Africa
Part 1 Under foreign flags - 1914-1930: the heritage and history - World War I, partition of Africa colonial Africa to 1930, military to civilian rule, economic consequences, export crops and food African responses to 1930 - early attempts at national liberation, independent churches and religious protest movements, new social groups key ideas for progress - The Pan-African movement, founders of modern nationalism - West Africa, the African voice…
The Search for Africa
The Search for Africa
Against All Odds, A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution
The Search for Africa
The Black Man's Burden
The Black Man's Burden
Remembering Cabral
The Sun is Not Always Dead at Midnight; Comments on Mamdani
These pages offer the conclusions of a lifetime." So Basil Davidson introduces The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (Times Books: New York and London, 1992). Focused on the period since Africa emerged from colonial rule in the fifties, this "meditation on the nature of the African experience" could not have come at a more opportune time, for the air is rife with pessimism. Even friends of Africa have despaired of a cri…
The Black Man's Burden
The Black Man's Burden
Africa without history the road not taken shadows of neglected ancestors tribalism and the new nationalism the rise of the nation-state the challenge of nationalism the black man's burden pirates in power the Euopean parallel
Columbus
Nations and nationalism since 1780
Journal Article Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth and reality and Coercion, capital and European states, AD 990–1990 Get access Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth and reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 191pp. Index.£14.95. ISBN 0 521 33507 8.Coercion, capital and European states, AD 990–1990. Edited by Charles Tilley. Oxford: Blackwell. 1990. 269pp. Index. (Studies in Social…
The crisis of the nation‐state in Africa
This discussion on the crisis of the nation‐state in Africa is an edited transcript of a conversation recorded at Basil Davidson's home in Somerset. He is currently writing a book, provisionally entitled ‘The Nation‐State Dead‐End: Africa and Europe After Imperialism’ which is expected to be completed in 1991. The book draws the historical parallels between Central and Eastern Europe on the one hand and Africa on the other. Each were incorporated…
Africa
Journal Article Africa: endurance and change south of the Sahara Get access Africa: endurance and change south of the Sahara. By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Berkeley, CA, London: University of California Press. 1989. 403pp. Index. $35.00. ISBN 0 520 05679 5. Basil Davidson Basil Davidson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 843, https://doi.org/10.…
The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper
Increases in immigration have led to an enormous growth in the number of cross-linguistic medical encounters taking place throughout the United States. In this article the role of hospital-based interpreters in cross-linguistic, internal medicine 'medical interviews' is examined. The interpreter's actions are analyzed against the historical and institutional context within which she is working, and also with an eye to the institutional goals that…
A model for the construction of conversational common ground in interpreted discourse
Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters
Physician-patient discourse, even same-language discourse, may be viewed as a type of cross-cultural interaction. Inside the US, there is a large and increasing number of adult Third World immigrant patients who do not speak English. For these patients the "cross-cultural" aspect of First World medical practice is underscored by the presence of the medical interpreter, who is herself faced with the task of negotiating both the content of utteranc…
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
Spanish is a pro-drop language in which first and second person subject pronouns are frequently omitted (80%); traditionally the function of overt subject pronouns has been regarded as adding emphasis or to contrast explicit statements. I argue that their function is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics;…
African peasants and revolution
The last thirteen years have seen important peasant uprisings in Angola, Guiné and Mozambique, conflicts which must be judged to some extent within the context of traditional colonial wars. Although the influence of events in neighbouring countries and urban notions of freedom and nationalism is undeniable, it is argued that these struggles reveal the rising trend of 'modern' resistance and its final dependence on mass participation by local comm…
The Lost Cities of Africa
Introduction: The Rediscovery of Africa - The Peopling of Ancient Africa - The Mystery of Meroe - Kingdoms of Old Sudan - Between the Niger & the Congo - To the Southward - Traders of the Indian Ocean - Fair Cities of Stone - After Axum - The Builders of the South - The Reality Behind the Ruins - Decline & Fall - History Begins Anew
Black Star a View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah
On revolutionary nationalism
The crisis of the nation‐state in Africa
This discussion on the crisis of the nation‐state in Africa is an edited transcript of a conversation recorded at Basil Davidson's home in Somerset. He is currently writing a book, provisionally entitled ‘The Nation‐State Dead‐End: Africa and Europe After Imperialism’ which is expected to be completed in 1991. The book draws the historical parallels between Central and Eastern Europe on the one hand and Africa on the other. Each were incorporated…
West Africa before the Colonial Era
1. The Early Centuries of Emergence: An Introduction. 2. Emergence of Trading States and Empires. 3. Pioneers in Ancient Ghana. 4. The Majesty of Mali. 5. Songhay Achievement. 6. Kanem-Bornu and the Hausa States. 7. Early Senegambia. 8. The Forest Kingdoms. 9. On the Threshold of Modern Times. 10. The Arts, Religion and Learning. 11. The Organisation of Society. 12. New Pressures. 13. Origins and Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade. 14. Senegambia…
The Sun is Not Always Dead at Midnight; Comments on Mamdani
These pages offer the conclusions of a lifetime." So Basil Davidson introduces The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (Times Books: New York and London, 1992). Focused on the period since Africa emerged from colonial rule in the fifties, this "meditation on the nature of the African experience" could not have come at a more opportune time, for the air is rife with pessimism. Even friends of Africa have despaired of a cri…
In the Eye of the Storm
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 354 - 356
Let Freedom Come
A history of modern Africa tracing its troubled 20th century, from imperialism to the birth of independent nations, and portraying an African consciousness whose roots are as deep as its goals are new
No fist is big enough to hide the sky
Somalia
West Africa before the Colonial Era
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans
The Black Man's Burden
The African Past
Modern Africa
Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows…
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky
Cabral on the African Revolution
When Africans of Portugal's empire began at last to make their voices heard in the world outside their barricaded colonies, soon after the middle of the 1950s, they found few to listen to them and fewer still to understand the importance of what they were proposing to do. The outside world, they learned, knew little of Portugal itself, let alone of Portuguese Africa: and, knowing little, cared even less.This article can also be found at the Month…
Can Africa Survive? Arguments Against Growth Without Development
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The African Genius. An Introduction to African Cultural and Social History
The Search for Africa
Remembering Cabral
Italy and the Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan in Italy, as we know from the record, was intended to do two things. Introduced in the second half of 1947, it was intended to improve the electoral chances of the parties opposed to socialism, and, if possible, to give the Christian Democrats complete command of the new Parliament which was soon to be elected. That was the immediate objective, the lifeline thrown to "western values" in Italy.This article can also be found at th…
The Destiny of Greece
TluTith respect to the charges of degeneracy and corruption so * * inconsiderately made against the Greek people, though this may not be the place to refute them, it is yet of importance to observe that, however they may have deplored the succession of calamities commencing with their conquest by the Romans, through the degradation that followed the transfer of the capital to Byzantium, a degradation which the introduction of Christianity did not…
Germany
Contrast in Germany
The general picture of East Germany cultivated by the British press (and possibly also by the American press) is of a gray and silent land prostrate beneath the relentless Russian boot, a sector of the map withdrawn from civilization, a place of fear and hunger. It goes without saying that this picture bears no recognizable resemblance to reality. Nor would the opposite extremes—of a joyful land of generous and carefree democrats—do much better. …
Awakening in Africa
A little over three centuries ago, the Portuguese Government decided to exclude Dutch ships from its refreshment stations on the route to the Indies. The Dutch Government accordingly sent an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope to found there a refreshment station for its own ships and, indeed, for any other non-Portuguese ships which cared to call there. Van Riebeeck landed at the Cape exactly three centuries ago next year.This article can also b…
West Africa
It used to be called "the white man's grave." Fever-ridden mangrove swamps, the chaos of cannibal tribes, the grave of Mungo Park and many brave explorers: these and a few other well-impressed comminglings of fact and legend were all that most of us have known of "West Africa"-these and the occasional glimpse from an anchored liner, of twisted jungle vegetation which twirled and tailed away in everlasting rain, meanwhile we lay in deckchairs with…
Empire Building
The British, it is said, "lost India" in 1946. On much the same intelligent system of surrendering one form of control in order to conserve another, they also lost the Gold Coast in 1950; and, if the Conservative Party can restrain its overacquisitive enthusiasm, the same process may soon occur in Nigeria, numerically Britain's greatest remaining colony.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are p…
Asia in Revolt
The Re-Discovery of Africa
Daybreak in China
African education in British central and southern Africa
A note on « pre-european » Africa
Aspects of African Growth Before A.D. 1500
Not many of the answers, true enough, are known: what is really new in the study of recent African history—the two millenniums, let us say, before A.D. 1500—is not so much that the answers are being supplied as that the questions are being put. That in itself is something of a milestone. Few may have denied the eventual possibility of tracing firm outlines for that place and period; all but the merest handful have had other fish to fry. These fis…
Turkestan Alive
To Lhasa and Beyond. Diary of the Expedition to Tibet in the Year 1948
The Twentieth Century
Facts about the African Past
The Lost Cities of Africa
Introduction: The Rediscovery of Africa - The Peopling of Ancient Africa - The Mystery of Meroe - Kingdoms of Old Sudan - Between the Niger & the Congo - To the Southward - Traders of the Indian Ocean - Fair Cities of Stone - After Axum - The Builders of the South - The Reality Behind the Ruins - Decline & Fall - History Begins Anew
Angola 1961. Le dossier des faits
The Lost Cities of Africa
Introduction: The Rediscovery of Africa - The Peopling of Ancient Africa - The Mystery of Meroe - Kingdoms of Old Sudan - Between the Niger & the Congo - To the Southward - Traders of the Indian Ocean - Fair Cities of Stone - After Axum - The Builders of the South - The Reality Behind the Ruins - Decline & Fall - History Begins Anew
L'Afrique de demain
The African Past
A History of West Africa, 1000-1800
The Zenith Series
A Science of Social Control
The trouble about discussing religion is that most of us are against it. Since Bruno was burned at the stake and Galileo bullied into saying that the world was flat, rational and scientific thought about man and the world has known its enemy: God and the priests and all their works, the whole black cloud of canting obscurantists who have clogged understanding and persecuted knowledge for the sake of kings, popes, proprietors or other baleful fath…
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