Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3088778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Mark-Thiesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mark-Thiesen |
| SIGNATURE | MARK-THIESEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bayreuth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4099-3273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What is Digital Global History Now
Publication status: Published
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber
Contestations over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa
By the end of the colonial period, African agriculture was marked by two disparate systems of production: widespread small-scale farming in West Africa and European-driven large-scale plantations in East Africa and to the south of the continent. Moreover, individual colonial economies had become specialized providers of specific agricultural produce, leaving them vulnerable to shifts in global markets. While it has been noted elsewhere that Afric…
Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante , 1895
Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa
Studies continue to assume an unbridgeable gap between scientific representations and ontological realities in Africa. Histories of foreign scientific interventions on the continent have often emphasized the role of scientists as agents of empire. However, there is a growing body of historiography that explores how adaptation and translation took place against the backdrop of the massive power imbalances that characterized such knowledge transfer…
Neglected Historiography from Africa
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The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical cons…
Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Public Memorialisation and the Politics of Historical Memory in Africa
In 2020,aglobal wave of anti-racism movementsc ontributed to widespread reconsideration of previouslyhonoured people. From Bristol'sslave trader Edward Colston, to confederate generals across the American South, to King Leopold II of Belgium, statues now seen as symbols of white supremacyh avef allen. Campaigns in Africa challenged state-endorsed memorialisations, thus contributing to the recent groundswell of alternative interpretations of the p…
Liberia an(d) Empire
In the 1840s, Liberia was a black settler state on the West African coast which avowedly supported the connected ideologies of Christianity, commerce, and ‘civilisation’. However, from the 1870s, as the rest of West Africa began to be divided up into colonies, adherence to these ‘Western’ values did not spare Liberia’s leaders from some of the disruptive consequences of European expansionism. This article frames these consequences in the context …
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these new studies are rooted in the recognition of Africa's dynamic, expansive, and productive informal sector. While this book focuses on one of West Africa'…
Of Vagrants and Volunteers During Liberia's Operation Production, 1963–1969
A number of recent studies have highlighted how states across the African continent continued to revert to repressive labor practices for the sake of food production, cash-cropping, territorial expansion and infrastructural development during the late colonial and postcolonial period. Yet, the focus has mostly been on colonial continuities. This article investigates coercive labor as a deliberate but concealed part of a national rally for increas…
Of Vagrants and Volunteers During Liberia’s Operation Production, 1963–1969
A number of recent studies have highlighted how states across the African continent continued to revert to repressive labor practices for the sake of food production, cash-cropping, territorial expansion and infrastructural development during the late colonial and postcolonial period. Yet, the focus has mostly been on colonial continuities. This article investigates coercive labor as a deliberate but concealed part of a national rally for increas…
Taxing Colonial Africa
It often needs reiterating in studies of Imperial and African history that pragmatic concerns outweighed ideology under British colonial rule in Africa. Therefore, Taxing Colonial Africa is a welco
The “Bargain” of Collaboration
This article argues that during the formative years of the colonial state in Ghana, European employers established new collaborative mechanisms with African intermediaries for the purpose of expanding the modern mining sector. They were forced to do so on account of severe labour-market limitations, resulting primarily from the slow death of slavery and debt bondage. These intermediaries, or “headmen”, were engaged because of their apparent afflu…
The “Bargain” of Collaboration
This article argues that during the formative years of the colonial state in Ghana, European employers established new collaborative mechanisms with African intermediaries for the purpose of expanding the modern mining sector. They were forced to do so on account of severe labour-market limitations, resulting primarily from the slow death of slavery and debt bondage. These intermediaries, or “headmen”, were engaged because of their apparent afflu…
Neglected Historiography from Africa
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these new studies are rooted in the recognition of Africa's dynamic, expansive, and productive informal sector. While this book focuses on one of West Africa'…
Liberia an(d) Empire
In the 1840s, Liberia was a black settler state on the West African coast which avowedly supported the connected ideologies of Christianity, commerce, and ‘civilisation’. However, from the 1870s, as the rest of West Africa began to be divided up into colonies, adherence to these ‘Western’ values did not spare Liberia’s leaders from some of the disruptive consequences of European expansionism. This article frames these consequences in the context …
The “Bargain” of Collaboration
This article argues that during the formative years of the colonial state in Ghana, European employers established new collaborative mechanisms with African intermediaries for the purpose of expanding the modern mining sector. They were forced to do so on account of severe labour-market limitations, resulting primarily from the slow death of slavery and debt bondage. These intermediaries, or “headmen”, were engaged because of their apparent afflu…
Taxing Colonial Africa
It often needs reiterating in studies of Imperial and African history that pragmatic concerns outweighed ideology under British colonial rule in Africa. Therefore, Taxing Colonial Africa is a welco
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these new studies are rooted in the recognition of Africa's dynamic, expansive, and productive informal sector. While this book focuses on one of West Africa'…
Of Vagrants and Volunteers During Liberia's Operation Production, 1963–1969
A number of recent studies have highlighted how states across the African continent continued to revert to repressive labor practices for the sake of food production, cash-cropping, territorial expansion and infrastructural development during the late colonial and postcolonial period. Yet, the focus has mostly been on colonial continuities. This article investigates coercive labor as a deliberate but concealed part of a national rally for increas…
Of Vagrants and Volunteers During Liberia’s Operation Production, 1963–1969
A number of recent studies have highlighted how states across the African continent continued to revert to repressive labor practices for the sake of food production, cash-cropping, territorial expansion and infrastructural development during the late colonial and postcolonial period. Yet, the focus has mostly been on colonial continuities. This article investigates coercive labor as a deliberate but concealed part of a national rally for increas…
Liberia an(d) Empire
In the 1840s, Liberia was a black settler state on the West African coast which avowedly supported the connected ideologies of Christianity, commerce, and ‘civilisation’. However, from the 1870s, as the rest of West Africa began to be divided up into colonies, adherence to these ‘Western’ values did not spare Liberia’s leaders from some of the disruptive consequences of European expansionism. This article frames these consequences in the context …
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical cons…
Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Public Memorialisation and the Politics of Historical Memory in Africa
In 2020,aglobal wave of anti-racism movementsc ontributed to widespread reconsideration of previouslyhonoured people. From Bristol'sslave trader Edward Colston, to confederate generals across the American South, to King Leopold II of Belgium, statues now seen as symbols of white supremacyh avef allen. Campaigns in Africa challenged state-endorsed memorialisations, thus contributing to the recent groundswell of alternative interpretations of the p…
Neglected Historiography from Africa
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Contestations over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa
By the end of the colonial period, African agriculture was marked by two disparate systems of production: widespread small-scale farming in West Africa and European-driven large-scale plantations in East Africa and to the south of the continent. Moreover, individual colonial economies had become specialized providers of specific agricultural produce, leaving them vulnerable to shifts in global markets. While it has been noted elsewhere that Afric…
Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante , 1895
Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa
Studies continue to assume an unbridgeable gap between scientific representations and ontological realities in Africa. Histories of foreign scientific interventions on the continent have often emphasized the role of scientists as agents of empire. However, there is a growing body of historiography that explores how adaptation and translation took place against the backdrop of the massive power imbalances that characterized such knowledge transfer…
What is Digital Global History Now
Publication status: Published
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber
History (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)