Jan-Georg Deutsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Georg Deutsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Deutsch |
| SIGNATURE | DEUTSCH J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction Control and Excess: Histories of Violence in Africa
Violence is a murky issue to research and to theorize: this introduction suggests that it has also often been approached differently by anthropologists and historians. In the pages that follow, we reflect on the ways in which both disciplines have worked to interpret violent events in Africa, whether in the deep past, during the colonial era or in more recent periods. To better contextualize these disciplinary advances, we intersperse them with b…
Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950
This introduction highlights the main subjects and research questions addressed in the articles making up this Special Issue on the labour histories of transport in the Global South. Although historiographical interest in the history of transport labour is growing, scientific knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This is especially true for histories from outside Europe and North America. Important topics and research problems covered h…
Two. Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi c. 1860–1900
Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi: C. 1860–1900
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst and Heike Schmidt, African Modernities: entangled meanings in current debate. Oxford: James Currey (paperback £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 792 2; hard covers £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 793 0); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (paperback US 64.00, ISBN 0 325 07120 9). 2002, 184 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
Introduction: cherished visions & entangled meanings by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst & Heike Schmidt - West Africa: modernity & modernization by Richard Rathbone - Kenyatta, God & the modern world by John Lonsdale - Dislocation, memory & modernity: the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice & space by Liz Gunner - Images of an African modernity: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya by Heike Behrend - Governmentality, materi…
Celebrating power in everyday life: The administration of law and the public sphere in colonial Tanzania, 1890-1914
The paper examines the way in which power was routinely exercised in colonial German East Africa in everyday life. In order to achieve domination rather than ruling just by brute force, the German administration set up district councils called Schauri , in which members of the local African elite were invited to act as advisers to the District Officer. The highly formalized meetings of the council were held in public at least once a week. The dis…
Re: Francis Danquah's Review of Educating the Middlemen
Educating the Middlemen: A Political and Economic History of Statutory Cocoa Marketing in Nigeria, 1936-1947
Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos
Journal Article Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos Get access Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos, by Sandra T. Barnes. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986. x+261 pp. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3. JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos
Journal Article Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos Get access Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos, by Sandra T. Barnes. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986. x+261 pp. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3. JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Celebrating power in everyday life: The administration of law and the public sphere in colonial Tanzania, 1890-1914
The paper examines the way in which power was routinely exercised in colonial German East Africa in everyday life. In order to achieve domination rather than ruling just by brute force, the German administration set up district councils called Schauri , in which members of the local African elite were invited to act as advisers to the District Officer. The highly formalized meetings of the council were held in public at least once a week. The dis…
Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950
This introduction highlights the main subjects and research questions addressed in the articles making up this Special Issue on the labour histories of transport in the Global South. Although historiographical interest in the history of transport labour is growing, scientific knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This is especially true for histories from outside Europe and North America. Important topics and research problems covered h…
Introduction Control and Excess: Histories of Violence in Africa
Violence is a murky issue to research and to theorize: this introduction suggests that it has also often been approached differently by anthropologists and historians. In the pages that follow, we reflect on the ways in which both disciplines have worked to interpret violent events in Africa, whether in the deep past, during the colonial era or in more recent periods. To better contextualize these disciplinary advances, we intersperse them with b…
Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos
Journal Article Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos Get access Patrons and Power. Creating a political community in Metropolitan Lagos, by Sandra T. Barnes. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986. x+261 pp. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3. JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Educating the Middlemen: A Political and Economic History of Statutory Cocoa Marketing in Nigeria, 1936-1947
Re: Francis Danquah's Review of Educating the Middlemen
Celebrating power in everyday life: The administration of law and the public sphere in colonial Tanzania, 1890-1914
The paper examines the way in which power was routinely exercised in colonial German East Africa in everyday life. In order to achieve domination rather than ruling just by brute force, the German administration set up district councils called Schauri , in which members of the local African elite were invited to act as advisers to the District Officer. The highly formalized meetings of the council were held in public at least once a week. The dis…
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
Introduction: cherished visions & entangled meanings by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst & Heike Schmidt - West Africa: modernity & modernization by Richard Rathbone - Kenyatta, God & the modern world by John Lonsdale - Dislocation, memory & modernity: the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice & space by Liz Gunner - Images of an African modernity: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya by Heike Behrend - Governmentality, materi…
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst and Heike Schmidt, African Modernities: entangled meanings in current debate. Oxford: James Currey (paperback £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 792 2; hard covers £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 793 0); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (paperback US 64.00, ISBN 0 325 07120 9). 2002, 184 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
Two. Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi c. 1860–1900
Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi: C. 1860–1900
Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950
This introduction highlights the main subjects and research questions addressed in the articles making up this Special Issue on the labour histories of transport in the Global South. Although historiographical interest in the history of transport labour is growing, scientific knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This is especially true for histories from outside Europe and North America. Important topics and research problems covered h…
Introduction Control and Excess: Histories of Violence in Africa
Violence is a murky issue to research and to theorize: this introduction suggests that it has also often been approached differently by anthropologists and historians. In the pages that follow, we reflect on the ways in which both disciplines have worked to interpret violent events in Africa, whether in the deep past, during the colonial era or in more recent periods. To better contextualize these disciplinary advances, we intersperse them with b…
African history and culture studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works)