Lamont Dehaven King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lamont Dehaven King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lamont Dehaven |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Nation in Antiquity
This article supports the tendency among Egyptologists to classify ancient Kemet as a nation. In so doing, it challenges the modernist and postmodernist assertion that the nation first emerged in the West during the 18th and 19th centuries. It conceptualizes the nation in two ways: as the coincidence of common ethnicity and clearly defined territory—the nation-state; and more simply, as an entity that claims the right to control a state. Kemet’s …
Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus
From Caliphate To Protectorate
From Caliphate To Protectorate: Ethnicity And The Colonial Sabon Gari System In Northern Nigeria Lamont King Even with the conceptual shift from tribe to ethnic group by Africanists in the post-independence period, pre-colonial African polities have seldom been offered as models of political and economic integration. The territorially defined state, that assimilates members of different ethnic groups who acknowledge the legitimacy of its sovereig…
Nations without Nationalism
This paper examines the relationship between the ethnic group, the nation, and the state. In addition to the analysis of related concepts such as modes of production and world-systems theory, it uses examples from precolonial Northern Nigeria to emphasize how multi-ethnic states existed in Africa prior to the development of global capitalism and the imposition of the colonial state. In so doing, it challenges the standard notion that the nation-s…
Making the Town
State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria
Despite scholarly assertions to the contrary, the dramatic increase in the scale and intensity of migration in Africa, since the fifteenth century, has made the formation of ethnically constituted states the exception rather than the rule. This paper traces the origin and development of the multi-ethnic state of Katsina, which is in the area that was to become northern Nigeria. It maintains that territorial identification was more salient than et…
Making the Town
State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria
Despite scholarly assertions to the contrary, the dramatic increase in the scale and intensity of migration in Africa, since the fifteenth century, has made the formation of ethnically constituted states the exception rather than the rule. This paper traces the origin and development of the multi-ethnic state of Katsina, which is in the area that was to become northern Nigeria. It maintains that territorial identification was more salient than et…
Nations without Nationalism
This paper examines the relationship between the ethnic group, the nation, and the state. In addition to the analysis of related concepts such as modes of production and world-systems theory, it uses examples from precolonial Northern Nigeria to emphasize how multi-ethnic states existed in Africa prior to the development of global capitalism and the imposition of the colonial state. In so doing, it challenges the standard notion that the nation-s…
Making the Town
State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria
Despite scholarly assertions to the contrary, the dramatic increase in the scale and intensity of migration in Africa, since the fifteenth century, has made the formation of ethnically constituted states the exception rather than the rule. This paper traces the origin and development of the multi-ethnic state of Katsina, which is in the area that was to become northern Nigeria. It maintains that territorial identification was more salient than et…
Nations without Nationalism
This paper examines the relationship between the ethnic group, the nation, and the state. In addition to the analysis of related concepts such as modes of production and world-systems theory, it uses examples from precolonial Northern Nigeria to emphasize how multi-ethnic states existed in Africa prior to the development of global capitalism and the imposition of the colonial state. In so doing, it challenges the standard notion that the nation-s…
From Caliphate To Protectorate
From Caliphate To Protectorate: Ethnicity And The Colonial Sabon Gari System In Northern Nigeria Lamont King Even with the conceptual shift from tribe to ethnic group by Africanists in the post-independence period, pre-colonial African polities have seldom been offered as models of political and economic integration. The territorially defined state, that assimilates members of different ethnic groups who acknowledge the legitimacy of its sovereig…
Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus
The Nation in Antiquity
This article supports the tendency among Egyptologists to classify ancient Kemet as a nation. In so doing, it challenges the modernist and postmodernist assertion that the nation first emerged in the West during the 18th and 19th centuries. It conceptualizes the nation in two ways: as the coincidence of common ethnicity and clearly defined territory—the nation-state; and more simply, as an entity that claims the right to control a state. Kemet’s …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)