Robert W Harms
Biographic Data
| ID | 257698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Harms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Harms |
| SIGNATURE | HARMS R W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History
The growth of teaching and research on the history of precolonial tropical Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s presented a challenge to the Western historical consciousness. Braudel&s;s ideas provided historians of precolonial tropical Africa with a way of determining to what extent the findings of present-day field work or early colonial ethnography could be used to illuminate the precolonial past. The social, demographic, and economic circ…
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. …
Tales from the Ships
Paths toward the past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Paths toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. A key element in Nunu history has been the small-scale, short-distance migrations that continually led …
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History
Journal Article The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History Get access Robert W. Harms Robert W. Harms Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, October 1983, Pages 809–834, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.4.809 Published: 01 October 1983
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
Annales Aequatoria: Recueil d'études offert au R. P. G. Hulstaert m.s.c. à l'occasion de son 80 e anniversaire. Edited By A. Claessens and H. Vinck, tome 1, vol. I (1980), and tome 11 (1980). Mbandaka…
Annales Aequatoria: Recueil d'études offert au R. P. G. Hulstaert m.s.c. à l'occasion de son 80e anniversaire. Edited By A. Claessens and H. Vinck, tome 1, vol. I (1980), and tome 11 (1980). Mbandaka, Zaire: Missionaires du Sacré Coeur. 500F (Belgian); 50Z. - Volume 23 Issue 3
Pre-Colonial Central African History
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
Paths toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Paths toward the past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History
Journal Article The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History Get access Robert W. Harms Robert W. Harms Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, October 1983, Pages 809–834, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.4.809 Published: 01 October 1983
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
Annales Aequatoria: Recueil d'études offert au R. P. G. Hulstaert m.s.c. à l'occasion de son 80 e anniversaire. Edited By A. Claessens and H. Vinck, tome 1, vol. I (1980), and tome 11 (1980). Mbandaka…
Annales Aequatoria: Recueil d'études offert au R. P. G. Hulstaert m.s.c. à l'occasion de son 80e anniversaire. Edited By A. Claessens and H. Vinck, tome 1, vol. I (1980), and tome 11 (1980). Mbandaka, Zaire: Missionaires du Sacré Coeur. 500F (Belgian); 50Z. - Volume 23 Issue 3
Pre-Colonial Central African History
The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History
Journal Article The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History Get access Robert W. Harms Robert W. Harms Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, October 1983, Pages 809–834, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.4.809 Published: 01 October 1983
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. A key element in Nunu history has been the small-scale, short-distance migrations that continually led …
Paths toward the past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Paths toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Tales from the Ships
The Wars of August: Diagonal Narrative in African History
The growth of teaching and research on the history of precolonial tropical Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s presented a challenge to the Western historical consciousness. Braudel&s;s ideas provided historians of precolonial tropical Africa with a way of determining to what extent the findings of present-day field work or early colonial ethnography could be used to illuminate the precolonial past. The social, demographic, and economic circ…
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. …
History (11 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · Geology (3 works)