Lisa A Lindsay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 187573 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lisa A Lindsay |
| PRENOMES | Lisa A |
| SOBRENOME | Lindsay |
| ASSINATURA | LINDSAY L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1332-7411 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Two Princes of Mpfumo
Capitalism in the Colonies
Jenny Shaw. The Women of Rendezvous
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Some years ago, Olufemi Vaughan received from his aged father a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in southwestern Nigeria between 1926 and 1994. This rich volume presents and analyzes the letters, contextualizing them through additional archival research and oral interviews. The result is both a broad account of twentieth-century Yoruba social life and an intimate look at members of one educated, …
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Herman L. Bennett. African Kings and Black Slaves
Beginning in 1441, small groups of Portuguese and Spanish traders arrived on the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms. After quickly learning the futility of violent raids, they developed protocols and strategies for trading with the local sovereignties. But this process required identifying sovereigns, a process Herman L. Bennett describes as crucial to early modern Iberian political theory, the development o…
Introduction
This short essay introduces a set of five papers that examine the place Frederick Cooper’s scholarship occupies in the historiography of Africa
Slavery, Absorption, and Gender
This essay considers Frederick Cooper’s early scholarship on African slavery, which called for and modeled a practice of comparative historiography. His critique of the “absorption model” of African slavery, enabled by comparison with the Americas, anticipated important recent trends in the study of Atlantic slavery. Revisiting this critique helps us to understand key features of cultural continuity and change among enslaved people and can inform…
Atlantic Bonds
Through the contextualized biography of a previously unknown African American immigrant to Africa, this book illuminates slavery and freedom in multiple parts of the nineteenth century Atlantic world. A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was…
Biography in African History
This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist heroes as well as the lives of slaves, women, and other subalterns. Recently, some Africanist historians have embraced transnational life histories, particularly those situated in the “black Atlantic” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some themes, meth…
The autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, from African captive to Liberian missionary
The previously unpublished autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, written around 1860, offers insights into early nineteenth-century slaving along the Windward Coast as well as the colonization of Liberia and the expansion of mission Christianity. As a child in the 1820s, Von Brunn was captured by slavers but ransomed before leaving West Africa. Several years later, he encountered Liberian colonists and Christian missionaries. After a short period of …
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia
On the official seal of Liberia, a sailing ship approaches the coast; a palm tree, plough, and spade stand on the shore; a dove flies overhead carrying an open scroll; and the sun rises over the waters. Above the image is the national motto: ‘The love of liberty brought us here/ With the possible exception of the palm tree, all of these symbols reference the founding of Liberia by African Americans, and their hopes for self-sufficiency and peace.…
Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn -Joseph C. Miller Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa -Martin Klein Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History -Sheryl Kroen PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography -Jon Sensbach Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window…
Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade
This article considers the Atlantic slave trade in relation to ‘extraversion’ in African history. Drawing especially on the work of Jean-François Bayart, it argues that slaving fit a long-term pattern in which elites drew on external connections in order to further their wealth and power at home. In doing so, they also opened their societies to new goods and ideas, thus bringing about cultural creolization. This is a different approach to the que…
Micro-história em movimento
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Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
In this contextualized biography of an eighteenth-century African healer and his forced migrations from West Africa to Brazil to Portugal, James Sweet offers a social history of slavery and freedom, an argument about the intellectual history of the Atlantic world, and a methodological model for integrating the study of Africa and the Americas. It is a history at once intimate and sweeping — a brilliant exemplar of the emerging subfield of black A…
Arrest the Music! Fela and his rebel art and politics (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mobilizing the Masses
Elizabeth Schmidt, Mobilizing the Masses: gender, ethnicity, and class in the nationalist movement in Guinea, 1939–1958. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (pb $27.95–0 325 07030 X). 2005, 308 pp. - Volume 76 Issue 4
A Tragic Romance, A Nationalist Symbol
This article describes the trial, press coverage, and eventual pardon of Esther Johnson, a young Nigerian who murdered her lover, a British railroad employee, in 1953. These events offer insights into the social history of mid-twentieth-century southern Nigeria as well as the relationship between sexuality and colonialism. While scholars have highlighted the threats that mixed-race sexual unions represented to colonial establishments, they have p…
Working with Gender
Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. By Lisa A. Lindsay. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Social History of Africa. Pp. xvi, 241; 15 illustrations. $63.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. The introduction of large-scale capitalist institutions during the colonial period in sub-Saharan Africa and the attendant proliferation of wage labor occupations had powerful effects on the social fabric of people's lives. In Working…
Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa
African Words, African Voices
This roundtable discussion among four prominent historians of Africa-Lisa A. Lindsay, Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen-explores the critical practices in oral history. They address the challenges and possibilities of using oral sources, considering issues of interpretation, methodology, and the ethical implications of working with oral testimonies. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding the specific con…
The Generation of Plays
To return to the bosom of their fatherland’
(1994). ‘To return to the bosom of their fatherland’: Brazilian immigrants in nineteenth‐century Lagos. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 22-50
Working with Gender
Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. By Lisa A. Lindsay. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Social History of Africa. Pp. xvi, 241; 15 illustrations. $63.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. The introduction of large-scale capitalist institutions during the colonial period in sub-Saharan Africa and the attendant proliferation of wage labor occupations had powerful effects on the social fabric of people's lives. In Working…
Domesticity and Difference
Lisa A. Lindsay, Domesticity and Difference: Male Breadwinners, Working Women, and Colonial Citizenship in the 1945 Nigerian General Strike, The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jun., 1999), pp. 783-812
Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade
This article considers the Atlantic slave trade in relation to ‘extraversion’ in African history. Drawing especially on the work of Jean-François Bayart, it argues that slaving fit a long-term pattern in which elites drew on external connections in order to further their wealth and power at home. In doing so, they also opened their societies to new goods and ideas, thus bringing about cultural creolization. This is a different approach to the que…
Biography in African History
This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist heroes as well as the lives of slaves, women, and other subalterns. Recently, some Africanist historians have embraced transnational life histories, particularly those situated in the “black Atlantic” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some themes, meth…
Atlantic Bonds
Through the contextualized biography of a previously unknown African American immigrant to Africa, this book illuminates slavery and freedom in multiple parts of the nineteenth century Atlantic world. A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was…
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
In this contextualized biography of an eighteenth-century African healer and his forced migrations from West Africa to Brazil to Portugal, James Sweet offers a social history of slavery and freedom, an argument about the intellectual history of the Atlantic world, and a methodological model for integrating the study of Africa and the Americas. It is a history at once intimate and sweeping — a brilliant exemplar of the emerging subfield of black A…
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
A Tragic Romance, A Nationalist Symbol
This article describes the trial, press coverage, and eventual pardon of Esther Johnson, a young Nigerian who murdered her lover, a British railroad employee, in 1953. These events offer insights into the social history of mid-twentieth-century southern Nigeria as well as the relationship between sexuality and colonialism. While scholars have highlighted the threats that mixed-race sexual unions represented to colonial establishments, they have p…
To return to the bosom of their fatherland’
(1994). ‘To return to the bosom of their fatherland’: Brazilian immigrants in nineteenth‐century Lagos. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 22-50
‘No Need…to Think of Home’? Masculinity and Domestic Life on the Nigerian Railway, C . 1940–61
In 1950, a young man named Ayo Salako went to work for the Nigerian railway as a casual laborer. He hoped to be like his father, a locomotive driver who had worked for the railway from 1916 to his death thirty-four years later. Indeed, Ayo Salako became a successful railwayman, climbing the career ladder to locomotive driver, transferring to a number of different stations and retiring with a pension in 1987. Although the two generations of men bo…
Domesticity and Difference
Lisa A. Lindsay, Domesticity and Difference: Male Breadwinners, Working Women, and Colonial Citizenship in the 1945 Nigerian General Strike, The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jun., 1999), pp. 783-812
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
1. Introduction. * 2. African women present realities and which way forward? * 3. A history of class transformations: contemporary women's organizations in Nigeria. * 4. Class contestation in NCWS and other national women's organizations. * 5. Class and gender dynamics in professional women's organizations: rhetoric and practice. * 6. Gender and class in campaigns and civil discourse. * 7. Class and gender in child abuse. * 8. Women's healthcare …
The History of Nigeria
The Generation of Plays
African Words, African Voices
This roundtable discussion among four prominent historians of Africa-Lisa A. Lindsay, Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen-explores the critical practices in oral history. They address the challenges and possibilities of using oral sources, considering issues of interpretation, methodology, and the ethical implications of working with oral testimonies. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding the specific con…
Working with Gender
Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. By Lisa A. Lindsay. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Social History of Africa. Pp. xvi, 241; 15 illustrations. $63.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. The introduction of large-scale capitalist institutions during the colonial period in sub-Saharan Africa and the attendant proliferation of wage labor occupations had powerful effects on the social fabric of people's lives. In Working…
Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa
A Tragic Romance, A Nationalist Symbol
This article describes the trial, press coverage, and eventual pardon of Esther Johnson, a young Nigerian who murdered her lover, a British railroad employee, in 1953. These events offer insights into the social history of mid-twentieth-century southern Nigeria as well as the relationship between sexuality and colonialism. While scholars have highlighted the threats that mixed-race sexual unions represented to colonial establishments, they have p…
Arrest the Music! Fela and his rebel art and politics (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mobilizing the Masses
Elizabeth Schmidt, Mobilizing the Masses: gender, ethnicity, and class in the nationalist movement in Guinea, 1939–1958. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (pb $27.95–0 325 07030 X). 2005, 308 pp. - Volume 76 Issue 4
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
In this contextualized biography of an eighteenth-century African healer and his forced migrations from West Africa to Brazil to Portugal, James Sweet offers a social history of slavery and freedom, an argument about the intellectual history of the Atlantic world, and a methodological model for integrating the study of Africa and the Americas. It is a history at once intimate and sweeping — a brilliant exemplar of the emerging subfield of black A…
Micro-história em movimento
.
Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia
On the official seal of Liberia, a sailing ship approaches the coast; a palm tree, plough, and spade stand on the shore; a dove flies overhead carrying an open scroll; and the sun rises over the waters. Above the image is the national motto: ‘The love of liberty brought us here/ With the possible exception of the palm tree, all of these symbols reference the founding of Liberia by African Americans, and their hopes for self-sufficiency and peace.…
Boundaries of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberia
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn -Joseph C. Miller Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa -Martin Klein Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History -Sheryl Kroen PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography -Jon Sensbach Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window…
Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade
This article considers the Atlantic slave trade in relation to ‘extraversion’ in African history. Drawing especially on the work of Jean-François Bayart, it argues that slaving fit a long-term pattern in which elites drew on external connections in order to further their wealth and power at home. In doing so, they also opened their societies to new goods and ideas, thus bringing about cultural creolization. This is a different approach to the que…
The autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, from African captive to Liberian missionary
The previously unpublished autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, written around 1860, offers insights into early nineteenth-century slaving along the Windward Coast as well as the colonization of Liberia and the expansion of mission Christianity. As a child in the 1820s, Von Brunn was captured by slavers but ransomed before leaving West Africa. Several years later, he encountered Liberian colonists and Christian missionaries. After a short period of …
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Atlantic Bonds
Through the contextualized biography of a previously unknown African American immigrant to Africa, this book illuminates slavery and freedom in multiple parts of the nineteenth century Atlantic world. A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was…
Biography in African History
This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist heroes as well as the lives of slaves, women, and other subalterns. Recently, some Africanist historians have embraced transnational life histories, particularly those situated in the “black Atlantic” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some themes, meth…
Introduction
This short essay introduces a set of five papers that examine the place Frederick Cooper’s scholarship occupies in the historiography of Africa
Slavery, Absorption, and Gender
This essay considers Frederick Cooper’s early scholarship on African slavery, which called for and modeled a practice of comparative historiography. His critique of the “absorption model” of African slavery, enabled by comparison with the Americas, anticipated important recent trends in the study of Atlantic slavery. Revisiting this critique helps us to understand key features of cultural continuity and change among enslaved people and can inform…
Herman L. Bennett. African Kings and Black Slaves
Beginning in 1441, small groups of Portuguese and Spanish traders arrived on the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms. After quickly learning the futility of violent raids, they developed protocols and strategies for trading with the local sovereignties. But this process required identifying sovereigns, a process Herman L. Bennett describes as crucial to early modern Iberian political theory, the development o…
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