Richard Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5165845 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS R |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9493-0978 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 131 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 431 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1910 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Senegal Liberation Database Lesson
This social studies unit plan, aimed at high school history students, grows out of research into the registers of slave liberation created by French officials in Senegal from 1848 to 1903 and into the guardianship system that the French imposed to provide supervision for liberated minor children. It includes a series of classroom activities and assessments, a background essay, a set of primary sources, and other materials.World History, World His…
Introduction
This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people. For some descendant communities, listing the names of enslaved people contributes to searches for genealogical connections; for other communities where the stigma of enslaved descent still prevails, such projects may do harm. This introducti…
Naming Names of Enslaved People in the Senegal Liberations Project
Enslavement is linked to enduring and systemic inequalities, hierarchies, and to the erasures of enslaved people's histories, including their names. Such erasures meant and continue to mean different things to different populations of formerly enslaved people. Descendants of enslaved people, especially in the diaspora, turned to well-established means of genealogical research and new forms of DNA research to trace their ancestors. However, in Wes…
Evidence to support cultivated fruiting body of Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Ascomycota)'s role in relaxing airway smooth muscle
These findings suggest that the airway relaxation mechanisms of OCS02® CWE involved cGMP-dependent and cGMP-independent nitric oxide signalling pathways. This study provides evidence that the cultivated strain of OCS02® exhibits airway relaxation effects which supports the traditional use of its wild O. sinensis in strengthening respiratory health
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal
Conflicts of Colonialism
Based around the life of Mademba Sèye, an African born in the colonial town of Saint Louis du Sénégal in 1852, who transformed himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk into an African king, this book examines Mademba's life and career to reveal how colonialism in French West Africa was articulated differently at different times and how Mademba survived these changes by periodically reinventing himself. Investigating Made…
Much ado about very little
This article presents a historical reprise of 40 years of policy interest in ethnic minority businesses in the UK. It contrasts the pronouncements of policymakers with the reality of ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Such an exercise is surprisingly rare given the activism of policymakers in this arena and growing scholarly interest in this field. Our historical overview is informed by a novel research method that plots references to ethnic minor…
The state of Australian performance design
As the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019 ( PQ19 ) drew to a close, Australian designers, researchers and educators gathered to discuss the impact of PQ on our scenographic communities while querying the evolutions and challenges facing design practice. Australia’s vast geography made this event a unique opportunity to bring together leading experts from multiple states and capture contemporary perspectives. At the midpoint b…
Shaping Our Australian Scenographic Identities
In the form of a visual essay, this reflection charts a course through eight specific moments in Australian performance design history. Selected by guest editor Tessa Rixon, this essay features contributions from Australia’s most established designers from sound, lighting and costume through to the latest in performance design practice and research. Specially curated for this special edition on Australian scenography, each contributor reflects on…
The Registers of Slave Liberation in Colonial Senegal
This is a preliminary analysis of 10,000 enslaved Africans who obtained formal liberation in Senegal from 1894 to 1903. It is a subset of the 28,930 liberations recorded in the official Registers of Liberation from 1857 to 1903. Most of the evidence we have on liberated Africans are from those on ships that were captured by European anti-slavery squadrons on the high seas, and who were then liberated by the Europeans into various Vice-Admiralty c…
Endothelium-independent vasorelaxant effect of Asphodelus tenuifolius Cav. via inhibition of myosin light chain kinase activity in the porcine coronary artery
Slavery, the End of Slavery, and the Intensification of Work in the French Soudan, 1883–1912
This article posits a strong correlation between episodes of regionally specific economic growth and the intensification of work to meet increased demand. The arrival of the French conquest armies in Bamako in 1883 stimulated the market for grain to feed the soldiers and the crowd of those supporting them. The market for grain had long predated the arrival of the French to support the desert side trade with the pastoralists of the sahel and had s…
Congressional Budget Responses to the Pandemic
Hugh MacDiarmid's 'On Raised Beach
The poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) was the major driving force behind the twentieth-century Scottish literary renaissance and was also a passionate Scottish nationalist. His poem 'On a Raised Beach' (1934) has been understood in theological and philosophical terms as a metaphysical exploration, albeit one grounded in an immediate experience of nature that took place on Shetland. In this paper, MacDiarmid's epic is placed in the context of the p…
The Chthonic Imperative
Changing Minds
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives. -- Provided by publisher. We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging aff…
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
This chapter begins with the creation of a warrior state under Mamari (also called Biton) Kulubali around 1712. The defeat of the Segu Bambara forces at Witala pushed the balance of power in favor of further tonjonw decentralization. This characterized both the joint Segu-Masina alliance at Tio opposite Sinsani in January 1861 and the ephemeral defense of Segu itself in March 1861. The chapter explores the conceptual and explanatory problems in s…
Coerced Labor in Twentieth-Century Africa
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Friday essay
Over the past half century, Australia has experienced a ‘time revolution’ with Indigenous history pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The latest discovery reminds us that science, like history, is an ongoing inquiry
Slave voices in African colonial courts
Religion and Economic Life
Sacred music in secular society
Jonathan Arnold is Chaplain and Senior Research Fellow of Worcester College Oxford, and an accomplished professional singer. He has produced an intriguing book that opens up many questions that ari
Is Entrepreneurship a Route Out of Deprivation
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurship constitutes a route out of deprivation for those living in deprived areas. The measure of income/wealth used is based on an analysis of improvements in an individual's residential address. The data consist of information on over 800 000 individuals, and come from the customer records of a major UK bank. Comparing business owners with non-owners, the results suggest that the benefits of business own…
Contemplation and the ‘Performative Absolute’
Practices derived from the ‘vita contemplativa’ and other spiritual sources are drawn upon by management, but as the power of human resources management (HRM) is extended so the relationship between ‘contemplation’ and the surrender of self-identity required by HRM demands critical examination. The conscious construction of the individual has become a social and political goal. Subjects are required to strip away attributes of their identity that…
Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa
Law lay at the heart of the colonial encounter. This chapter examines the ‘deep effects’ that the colonial encounter had on law in Africa and how the very ‘litigiousness’ of Africans reflects both social change and African agency. Colonial officials used law to promote both legibility and stability of African societies. In practice, however, colonial legal systems promoted conflict by imposing rules and expectations that were not widely shared or…
The Banamba slave exodus of 1905 and the decline of slavery in the Western Sudan
One of the most important changes to take place during the early colonial period was the transformation from slave labour to free labour. In French West Africa this resulted not from a policy decision by the French administration but from the massive departure of slaves in those societies most reliant on slave labour. The focal event was an exodus from Banamba, a Maraka town which had been a major centre both of the slave trade and of the exploit…
Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa
In African Muslim societies domestic slavery was a deeply entrenched institution, accepted as a matter of course by African believers and Muslim lawyers. This study, first published by Hurst in 1970, has been extensively revised, with a new introduction and an extra chapter on slavery taken from the work, Sahara and Sudan. It discusses domestic slavery in the context of the religious, social and economic conditions of Islamic societies, the statu…
Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago
Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago." Australian Archaeology, 37(1), pp. 58–59
Cotton, colonialism, and social history in sub-Saharan Africa
This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore the range of …
God Alone Is King
Introduction PART I ISLAM & MONARCHY Kajoor & Bawol in the mid-nineteenth century - Civil war & conquest: monarchy & Islam in Kajoor, 1859-1890 - 'God alone is King': reconceptualising Murid Islam - Creating colonial order: state & society in Bawol, 1894-1903 PART II SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION Slavery under siege, 1890-1905: colonialism, resistance & runaways - Emancipation from below: the emergence of a muslim peasantry, 1890-1914 - Civilising missi…
Long distance trade and production
This examination of Maraka long-distance trade has underlined a commercial strategy involving both exchange and production. Most of the goods the Maraka traded were either locally produced or re-exports from the desert-side trade. Once the desert-side dimension of Maraka trade was interrupted, as it was following the Umarian conquest of 1861, the linkages holding together Sinsani's economy collapsed. Maraka long-distance trade was characterized b…
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008
The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet…
Two Worlds of Cotton
A major new approach to the study of the social and economic history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War II. Cotton cultivation and handicraft cotton textile production had long been an important part of the indigenous regional economies of West Africa. During the nineteenth century, the French metro…
Women's Work and Women's Property
A history of the Maraka textile industry provides a glimpse into the fitful and uneven social and economic changes taking place during the nineteenth century in the area of the Western Sudan that is now part of Mali. Although the major historical events of this period are well understood, historians know very little about the social and economic history of the West African interior. Exactly how the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, renewed I…
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Times of sand
The orthodox archaeological sequence at the Sigatoka Dunes site (VL 16/1) in Fiji proposes three phases of occupation spanning Fijian prehistory, each associated with a period of dune stability. It has been taken as the standard model of Fijian prehistory for more than 30 years. Recently, however, it has been argued that there is no stratigraphic support for three discrete levels and that the occupation history was fragmented, complex, and contin…
New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia
The human settlement of Australia falls into that period where dating is hard because it is near or beyond the reliable limit of radiocarbon study; instead a range of luminescence methods are being turned to (such as thermoluminescence at Jinmium: December 1996 ANTIQUITY). Ngarrabullgan Cave, a rock-shelter in Queensland, now offers a good suite of radiocarbon determinations which match well a pair of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates…
Backfill
The Emergence of a Grain Market in Bamako, 1883-1908
RÉSUMÉLe marché des grains de Bamako apparaît comme une réponse à la demande de l'Etat colonial et des employeurs de la main-d'oeuvre salariée. Les profits du commerce et de la spéculation ont souvent été substantiels pour les marchands européens et africains qui y ont participé. Deux explications du développement de ce marché peuvent être offertes. La première souligne la taille de la population engagée dans la production des grains pour la vent…
History and Memory
The four articles assembled here were first presented at a single panel at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Nashville in November 2000. This panel, one of several at the meeting concerned with various aspects of history and memory, was specifically interested in the power of the state to generate and to suppress historical narratives. This interest in history and memory is not new to the methodological and epistemolog…
Regulatory Responses to the Rise of the Market for Corporate Control in Britain in the 1950s
This article examines the evolution of the regulation of takeovers in Britain in the 1950s. Takeovers began in the early 1950s arousing hostility from the authorities which regarded them as undermining economic policy. A series of bids culminating in the struggle for control of the Savoy Hotel in 1953 led to official directives which covertly curtailed the phenomenon by restricting funds for bidders. There was a second wave of bids in the late 19…
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial
Is Entrepreneurship a Route Out of Deprivation
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurship constitutes a route out of deprivation for those living in deprived areas. The measure of income/wealth used is based on an analysis of improvements in an individual's residential address. The data consist of information on over 800 000 individuals, and come from the customer records of a major UK bank. Comparing business owners with non-owners, the results suggest that the benefits of business own…
Representation, Structure and Agency
On 5 October 1905, Baia Bari of Gassin village went before the tribunal de province of Segu seeking a divorce from her husband, Tiemoko Boaré of Koila. Both Baia Bari and Tiemoko Boaré were Muslims. Baia Bari claimed that Tiemoko Boaré had mistreated her and that she was prepared to return the bridewealth. In addition, Baia Bari sought the return of 27,000 cowries she claimed Tiemoko Boaré had taken from her, although she did not present any ‘pro…
Black Scandal
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
Richard L. Roberts, Production and Reproduction of Warrior States: Segu Bambara and Segu Tokolor, c. 1712-1890, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1980), pp. 389-419
What's in a Name? Merchants, Merchant Bankers, Accepting Houses, Issuing Houses, Industrial Bankers and Investment Bankers
The subject of this article is the terminology of the merchant banking industry over the last century and a half. It identifies when and why the terms ‘merchants’, ‘merchant bankers’, ‘accepting houses’, ‘issuing houses’, ‘industrial bankers’ and ‘investment bankers’ came into use, and in some cases fell into disuse. The pattern of terminological usage is related to phases in the evolution of the activities and prosperity of the industry. Explana…
Text and Testimony in the Tribunal de Première Instance , Dakar, During the Early Twentieth Century
Historians have recently come to appreciate the importance of studying the colonial legal system and the potential in mining court cases for historical data. This article is a preliminary effort to present a methodology for the study of the records of the entry level civil court, the tribunal de première instance , in Dakar, Senegal. The records are somewhat peculiar, because they are the consequence of the extension of the legal rights to the Af…
Sir Horace Wilson, 1900–1935
In 1975, Max Beloff wrote an article entitled ‘The Whitehall factor: the role of the higher civil service, 1919–39’, which historians have been singularly slow to exploit. Influenced, no doubt, by the publication in the same year of the Crossman Diaries , Beloff argued that no modern political history could be complete which ignores the influence of the civil service on policy-making. ‘The anonymity of the civil service’, he argued, ‘may or may n…
West Africa and the Pondicherry textile industry
Concerning the Historical Manuscripts Commission
The audience which assembles in this room on occasions similar to the present is, most frequently, I suppose, addressed with reference to some section or phase of the subject-matter of history. As a rule, results of historical study and investigation, whether it be of a period or of a particular series of events, or of the policy or character of some statesman or famous person, or of some political movement, or the like, are laid before you. This…
Professional Conferences
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The Role of the School Social Worker
The aims of our education system are no longer only to impart knowledge on the “3 Rs”. The formal educative process in the school has been slowly broadened and includes not only academic pursuits, but plays a large part in the overall socialization of a child to become a functioning member of society. The school has taken on functions once the prerogative of the family (for example, use of leisure time, vocational guidance, sex and health educati…
The influence of introversion/extraversion on the skin conductance response to stress and stimulus intensity
Tradition and Progress in the African Village
Faith in History and Society
Books/Livres
Ecologically Specialized Trade and Economic Growth
R. Roberts — Commerce à spécialisation écologique et croissance économique : réponse. Réponse aux commentaires de Baier, Amselle, Chauveau et Person. L'auteur admet le caractère mécaniste d'une explication trop strictement géographique (ou écologique) de la division du travail, mais maintient l'importance différentielle des contraintes de cet ordre. De même, en ce qui concerne les rapports entre économie marchande et organisation étatique, il sou…
Long distance trade and production
This examination of Maraka long-distance trade has underlined a commercial strategy involving both exchange and production. Most of the goods the Maraka traded were either locally produced or re-exports from the desert-side trade. Once the desert-side dimension of Maraka trade was interrupted, as it was following the Umarian conquest of 1861, the linkages holding together Sinsani's economy collapsed. Maraka long-distance trade was characterized b…
The Banamba slave exodus of 1905 and the decline of slavery in the Western Sudan
One of the most important changes to take place during the early colonial period was the transformation from slave labour to free labour. In French West Africa this resulted not from a policy decision by the French administration but from the massive departure of slaves in those societies most reliant on slave labour. The focal event was an exodus from Banamba, a Maraka town which had been a major centre both of the slave trade and of the exploit…
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
Richard L. Roberts, Production and Reproduction of Warrior States: Segu Bambara and Segu Tokolor, c. 1712-1890, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1980), pp. 389-419
Linkages and Multiplier Effects in the Ecologically Specialized Trade of Precolonial West Africa
R. Roberts - Effets multiplicateurs et concaténation dans le commerce éco-spécialisê de l'Afrique précoloniale. Analyse critique des théories défendues par A. G. Hopkins {An Economie History of West Africa, 1973) à propos des effets produits par la division géographique (ou écologique) du travail et de la production en Afrique occidentale. L'auteur conclut que le développement économique précolonial s'explique mieux par la spécificité politique d…
Warfare, Technology, and the State
The Emergence of a Grain Market in Bamako, 1883-1908
RÉSUMÉLe marché des grains de Bamako apparaît comme une réponse à la demande de l'Etat colonial et des employeurs de la main-d'oeuvre salariée. Les profits du commerce et de la spéculation ont souvent été substantiels pour les marchands européens et africains qui y ont participé. Deux explications du développement de ce marché peuvent être offertes. La première souligne la taille de la population engagée dans la production des grains pour la vent…
The Peculiarities of African Labour and Working-Class History
Richard Sandbrook and Robin Cohen, eds.. The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1975) A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhim, and A.Z. Zusmanovich, Forced Labour in Colonial Africa (London: Zed Press 1979) Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Wall, Organize or Starve: The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (London: Lawrence and Wishart 1980) Robin Cohen, Peter Gutkind, an…
Books/Livres
Modes of Production in Africa
What form does social inequality take without classes? How does the ecology of an area, in particular the Zaire basin, interact with social organization? What forms of production existed in different areas? What were the effects of mercantile capitalism on tribal production? These questions and more are tackled with a view to increasing our understanding of industrial development in precolonial Africa
Pastoral Production and Society/Production Pastorale et Société
Caravans of Kola
Books/Livres
Books/Livres
Black Scandal
Uneven Development of Studies on Capitalism in Africa
Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
Women's Work and Women's Property
A history of the Maraka textile industry provides a glimpse into the fitful and uneven social and economic changes taking place during the nineteenth century in the area of the Western Sudan that is now part of Mali. Although the major historical events of this period are well understood, historians know very little about the social and economic history of the West African interior. Exactly how the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, renewed I…
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