Robert Harms
Biographic Data
| ID | 79557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Harms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Harms |
| SIGNATURE | HARMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
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…
Introduction: Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Although a vast amount of historical scholarship has been devoted to the decline of the Atlantic slave trade and the demise of slavery in the New World during the nineteenth century, much less scholarly attention has been focused on the extensive slave trading networks in the western Indian Ocean. The states and islands of the western Indian Ocean have both used and trafficked in slaves since at least the ninth century. At the very time when the …
Tales from the Ships
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
"The "Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Into those Waves, Never to Return At the end of May 1731, a sixty-nine foot, three-masted ship called the Diligent set out from Vannes, France, for West Africa, where its crew purchased 256 slaves, carried them to Martinique, sold them, and returned to Vannes in September 1732 with 251 barrels of sugar and some IOU's.Of
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
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
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 …
Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Systems, Games and History: Models for the Study of Africa's Past
John Maynard Keynes (1936: 383) once wrote that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” We historians are practical people who pride ourselves on our attention to facts and our painstaking reconstruction of detail. And yet our criteria for deciding which data are relevant, our categories for arranging data, and our approach to interpreting data …
History of Central Africa
The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718
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
The World Abir Made: The Margina-Lopori Basin, 1885-1903
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
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity Historians schooled in the Western academic tradition of historical writing have been grappling over the last three decades with the problem of how best to use oral traditions as source material for writing Westernstyle history. Although oral traditions can be found in most parts of the world, the debate has been especially lively concerning Africa, for which the paucity of written data has caused historians to turn t…
Slave Systems in Africa
The slave trade has been a major theme of historical writing on Africa for many years, but it is only recently that scholars have begun to look seriously at slavery within African societies themselves. With the recent publication of three books the trickle of studies on this subject has now become a flood. The first of these, L'esclavage en Afrique précoloniale , edited by Claude Meillassoux, contains seventeen studies of slavery, mostly from fra…
The end of red rubber: A reassessment
The African rubber boom, which lasted from 1890 to 1913, had a significant economic and political impact on many parts of Africa. While the broad outlines of the boom were determined by the world market, the numerous local and regional variations were influenced more by the depletion of the rubber supplies. The factors that influenced the depletion varied according to whether the region in question was a free trade area or a concession area. The …
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
"The "Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Into those Waves, Never to Return At the end of May 1731, a sixty-nine foot, three-masted ship called the Diligent set out from Vannes, France, for West Africa, where its crew purchased 256 slaves, carried them to Martinique, sold them, and returned to Vannes in September 1732 with 251 barrels of sugar and some IOU's.Of
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
Some Archives in the Bandundu and Equateur Regions of Zaire
Archives in the Republic of Zaire contain valuable documents for historical and ethnographic research, but finding these treasures often demands a great deal of perseverance and a certain amount of luck. Since the government archives in Kinshasa deal mainly with national administration, they generally have little to offer researchers interested in more localized topics. Although a small number of documents from the countryside have trickled into …
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity Historians schooled in the Western academic tradition of historical writing have been grappling over the last three decades with the problem of how best to use oral traditions as source material for writing Westernstyle history. Although oral traditions can be found in most parts of the world, the debate has been especially lively concerning Africa, for which the paucity of written data has caused historians to turn t…
The World Abir Made: The Margina-Lopori Basin, 1885-1903
History of Central Africa
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
Slave Systems in Africa
The slave trade has been a major theme of historical writing on Africa for many years, but it is only recently that scholars have begun to look seriously at slavery within African societies themselves. With the recent publication of three books the trickle of studies on this subject has now become a flood. The first of these, L'esclavage en Afrique précoloniale , edited by Claude Meillassoux, contains seventeen studies of slavery, mostly from fra…
The end of red rubber: A reassessment
The African rubber boom, which lasted from 1890 to 1913, had a significant economic and political impact on many parts of Africa. While the broad outlines of the boom were determined by the world market, the numerous local and regional variations were influenced more by the depletion of the rubber supplies. The factors that influenced the depletion varied according to whether the region in question was a free trade area or a concession area. The …
Some Archives in the Bandundu and Equateur Regions of Zaire
Archives in the Republic of Zaire contain valuable documents for historical and ethnographic research, but finding these treasures often demands a great deal of perseverance and a certain amount of luck. Since the government archives in Kinshasa deal mainly with national administration, they generally have little to offer researchers interested in more localized topics. Although a small number of documents from the countryside have trickled into …
Slave Systems in Africa
The slave trade has been a major theme of historical writing on Africa for many years, but it is only recently that scholars have begun to look seriously at slavery within African societies themselves. With the recent publication of three books the trickle of studies on this subject has now become a flood. The first of these, L'esclavage en Afrique précoloniale , edited by Claude Meillassoux, contains seventeen studies of slavery, mostly from fra…
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity
Oral Tradition and Ethnicity Historians schooled in the Western academic tradition of historical writing have been grappling over the last three decades with the problem of how best to use oral traditions as source material for writing Westernstyle history. Although oral traditions can be found in most parts of the world, the debate has been especially lively concerning Africa, for which the paucity of written data has caused historians to turn t…
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
The World Abir Made: The Margina-Lopori Basin, 1885-1903
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718
River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891
History of Central Africa
Systems, Games and History: Models for the Study of Africa's Past
John Maynard Keynes (1936: 383) once wrote that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” We historians are practical people who pride ourselves on our attention to facts and our painstaking reconstruction of detail. And yet our criteria for deciding which data are relevant, our categories for arranging data, and our approach to interpreting data …
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 …
Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
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 "Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Into those Waves, Never to Return At the end of May 1731, a sixty-nine foot, three-masted ship called the Diligent set out from Vannes, France, for West Africa, where its crew purchased 256 slaves, carried them to Martinique, sold them, and returned to Vannes in September 1732 with 251 barrels of sugar and some IOU's.Of
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Tales from the Ships
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Although a vast amount of historical scholarship has been devoted to the decline of the Atlantic slave trade and the demise of slavery in the New World during the nineteenth century, much less scholarly attention has been focused on the extensive slave trading networks in the western Indian Ocean. The states and islands of the western Indian Ocean have both used and trafficked in slaves since at least the ninth century. At the very time when the …
History (23 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (15 works) · African history and culture studies (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works)