James L A Webb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 76278 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James L A Webb |
| PRENOMES | James L A |
| SOBRENOME | Webb |
| ASSINATURA | WEBB J L A |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Syndemic anemia in British Malaya
On Writing the History of Human Infectious Disease
Until recently, no historian had taken up the challenge of synthesizing the burgeoning literature on the genomics of pathogenic agents, situating the major human infectious diseases in the context of human history and attempting to evaluate their impacts. For this reason, the publication of Harper's accomplished survey of the effects of infectious diseases on human history, Plagues Upon the Earth, is timely, needed, and most welcome
Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
Mosquito by Richard Jones (review)
Reviewed by: Mosquito by Richard Jones James L. A. Webb Jr. Richard Jones. Mosquito. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 216 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-861-89923-1). Richard Jones, a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London and a former president of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, has authored a short, charming book titled Mosquito. It appears in the Animal series, published…
Historical Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Processes in Africa
This article outlines the historical development in African studies of the sub-discipline of historical epidemiology and the contemporary challenges of understanding infectious disease processes that require integrating biomedical and historical knowledge. It suggests that Africanist historians can play a significant role in collaborative and multidisciplinary research in this field by exploring the histories of disease processes and intervention…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa
This essay synthesizes research findings in the fields of microbiology, archaeology, and archaeobotany to explore the significance of malaria on the peopling of early tropical Africa before the Common Era. It contends that the human genetic responses to malarial infections in early tropical Africa constitute the earliest known chapters in the human experience with infectious disease. It also advances a new interpretation of the colonization of mu…
Black Death, White Medicine
Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press.; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002, 328 pp., US28.00, ISBN 0 325 07016 4 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Desert Frontier
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Roots in the African Dust
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758
(1997). The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 37-58
Global Restructuring and Peripheral States
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Concrete and Theoretical Contexts Chapter 3 Globalization and Peripheral States Chapter 4 The Mauritanian Context Chapter 5 Denationalization: From National to Multilateral State Chapter 6 Denationalization: Leaders and NGOs Within the State Chapter 7 Globalization and Devaluation of the Economy Chapter 8 Social Dimension of SAPs Chapter 9 Political Implications of SAPs Chapter 10 Democratization or Democracy? Chapter …
Desert Frontier
Desert Frontier
The Evolution of the Idaw al-Hajj Commercial Diaspora
This article constructs the general outlines of the precolonial history of the Idaw al-Hajj commercial diaspora, a grouping which linked the Black African Wolof states of northwestern Senegal with the Arabo-Berber world of the western Sahara. The Idaw al-Hajj maintained a broad commercial hegemony from the late seventeenth century until the gum boom of early nineteenth century. Over time, the 'White' Idaw al-Hajj of northwestern Senegal fully int…
The Horse and Slave Trade Between the Western Sahara and Senegambia
Following the late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century cavalry revolution in Senegambia, the horse and slave trade became a major sector of the desert-edge political economy. Black African states imported horses from North Africa and the western Sahara in exchange for slaves. Over time, under conditions of increasing aridity, the zone of desert horse-breeding was pushed south, and through crossbreeding with the small disease-resistant indigenous hor…
Ecological and Economic Change Along the Middle Reaches of the Gambia River, 1945–1985
Journal Article ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE ALONG THE MIDDLE REACHES OF THE GAMBIA RIVER, 1945–1985 Get access JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr The author teaches history at Colby College, Maine, and would like to acknowledge research support from the Social Science Grants Committee of the College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 365, October 1992, Pages 543–565…
Death by Migration
Money and the Morality of Exchange
This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduce…
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-War Depression
The Trade in Gum Arabic
From the late seventeenth century until the 1870s gum arabic from the southwestern corner of the Sahara was the most important trade good exported to Europe from Mauritania and Senegal. This article discusses the dynamics of the gum trading system based in Saint Louis du Senegal, and details the commercial crisis in which the French colony was mired in the late 1830s and 1840s. Pressure from French capital and from Faidherbe's military forces sec…
Money and Banking in Africa
Toward the Comparative Study of Money
Economists have long considered African currencies as lesser reflections of modern money in the West. Because core Western economic ideas were formulated before much was known about money in the nonWest, the tendency was to compare non-Western currencies with modern Western money, and, against this standard, non-Western currencies generally fared poorly. They seemed to lack, in part or wholly, one or more of the attributes of modern money. In thi…
The Trade in Gum Arabic
From the late seventeenth century until the 1870s gum arabic from the southwestern corner of the Sahara was the most important trade good exported to Europe from Mauritania and Senegal. This article discusses the dynamics of the gum trading system based in Saint Louis du Senegal, and details the commercial crisis in which the French colony was mired in the late 1830s and 1840s. Pressure from French capital and from Faidherbe's military forces sec…
Roots in the African Dust
Black Death, White Medicine
Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press.; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002, 328 pp., US28.00, ISBN 0 325 07016 4 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
The Evolution of the Idaw al-Hajj Commercial Diaspora
This article constructs the general outlines of the precolonial history of the Idaw al-Hajj commercial diaspora, a grouping which linked the Black African Wolof states of northwestern Senegal with the Arabo-Berber world of the western Sahara. The Idaw al-Hajj maintained a broad commercial hegemony from the late seventeenth century until the gum boom of early nineteenth century. Over time, the 'White' Idaw al-Hajj of northwestern Senegal fully int…
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Ecological and Economic Change Along the Middle Reaches of the Gambia River, 1945–1985
Journal Article ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE ALONG THE MIDDLE REACHES OF THE GAMBIA RIVER, 1945–1985 Get access JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr The author teaches history at Colby College, Maine, and would like to acknowledge research support from the Social Science Grants Committee of the College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 365, October 1992, Pages 543–565…
The Horse and Slave Trade Between the Western Sahara and Senegambia
Following the late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century cavalry revolution in Senegambia, the horse and slave trade became a major sector of the desert-edge political economy. Black African states imported horses from North Africa and the western Sahara in exchange for slaves. Over time, under conditions of increasing aridity, the zone of desert horse-breeding was pushed south, and through crossbreeding with the small disease-resistant indigenous hor…
Historical Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Processes in Africa
This article outlines the historical development in African studies of the sub-discipline of historical epidemiology and the contemporary challenges of understanding infectious disease processes that require integrating biomedical and historical knowledge. It suggests that Africanist historians can play a significant role in collaborative and multidisciplinary research in this field by exploring the histories of disease processes and intervention…
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-War Depression
Syndemic anemia in British Malaya
Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa
This essay synthesizes research findings in the fields of microbiology, archaeology, and archaeobotany to explore the significance of malaria on the peopling of early tropical Africa before the Common Era. It contends that the human genetic responses to malarial infections in early tropical Africa constitute the earliest known chapters in the human experience with infectious disease. It also advances a new interpretation of the colonization of mu…
Toward the Comparative Study of Money
Economists have long considered African currencies as lesser reflections of modern money in the West. Because core Western economic ideas were formulated before much was known about money in the nonWest, the tendency was to compare non-Western currencies with modern Western money, and, against this standard, non-Western currencies generally fared poorly. They seemed to lack, in part or wholly, one or more of the attributes of modern money. In thi…
The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758
(1997). The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 37-58
Death by Migration
Toward the Comparative Study of Money
Economists have long considered African currencies as lesser reflections of modern money in the West. Because core Western economic ideas were formulated before much was known about money in the nonWest, the tendency was to compare non-Western currencies with modern Western money, and, against this standard, non-Western currencies generally fared poorly. They seemed to lack, in part or wholly, one or more of the attributes of modern money. In thi…
Money and Banking in Africa
The Trade in Gum Arabic
From the late seventeenth century until the 1870s gum arabic from the southwestern corner of the Sahara was the most important trade good exported to Europe from Mauritania and Senegal. This article discusses the dynamics of the gum trading system based in Saint Louis du Senegal, and details the commercial crisis in which the French colony was mired in the late 1830s and 1840s. Pressure from French capital and from Faidherbe's military forces sec…
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-War Depression
Death by Migration
Money and the Morality of Exchange
This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduce…
Ecological and Economic Change Along the Middle Reaches of the Gambia River, 1945–1985
Journal Article ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE ALONG THE MIDDLE REACHES OF THE GAMBIA RIVER, 1945–1985 Get access JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr JAMES L. A. WEBB, Jr The author teaches history at Colby College, Maine, and would like to acknowledge research support from the Social Science Grants Committee of the College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 365, October 1992, Pages 543–565…
The Horse and Slave Trade Between the Western Sahara and Senegambia
Following the late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century cavalry revolution in Senegambia, the horse and slave trade became a major sector of the desert-edge political economy. Black African states imported horses from North Africa and the western Sahara in exchange for slaves. Over time, under conditions of increasing aridity, the zone of desert horse-breeding was pushed south, and through crossbreeding with the small disease-resistant indigenous hor…
The Evolution of the Idaw al-Hajj Commercial Diaspora
This article constructs the general outlines of the precolonial history of the Idaw al-Hajj commercial diaspora, a grouping which linked the Black African Wolof states of northwestern Senegal with the Arabo-Berber world of the western Sahara. The Idaw al-Hajj maintained a broad commercial hegemony from the late seventeenth century until the gum boom of early nineteenth century. Over time, the 'White' Idaw al-Hajj of northwestern Senegal fully int…
Desert Frontier
The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758
(1997). The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 37-58
Global Restructuring and Peripheral States
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Concrete and Theoretical Contexts Chapter 3 Globalization and Peripheral States Chapter 4 The Mauritanian Context Chapter 5 Denationalization: From National to Multilateral State Chapter 6 Denationalization: Leaders and NGOs Within the State Chapter 7 Globalization and Devaluation of the Economy Chapter 8 Social Dimension of SAPs Chapter 9 Political Implications of SAPs Chapter 10 Democratization or Democracy? Chapter …
Desert Frontier
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Roots in the African Dust
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
Desert Frontier
Black Death, White Medicine
Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press.; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002, 328 pp., US28.00, ISBN 0 325 07016 4 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa
This essay synthesizes research findings in the fields of microbiology, archaeology, and archaeobotany to explore the significance of malaria on the peopling of early tropical Africa before the Common Era. It contends that the human genetic responses to malarial infections in early tropical Africa constitute the earliest known chapters in the human experience with infectious disease. It also advances a new interpretation of the colonization of mu…
Mosquito by Richard Jones (review)
Reviewed by: Mosquito by Richard Jones James L. A. Webb Jr. Richard Jones. Mosquito. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 216 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-861-89923-1). Richard Jones, a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London and a former president of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, has authored a short, charming book titled Mosquito. It appears in the Animal series, published…
Historical Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Processes in Africa
This article outlines the historical development in African studies of the sub-discipline of historical epidemiology and the contemporary challenges of understanding infectious disease processes that require integrating biomedical and historical knowledge. It suggests that Africanist historians can play a significant role in collaborative and multidisciplinary research in this field by exploring the histories of disease processes and intervention…
Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
Syndemic anemia in British Malaya
On Writing the History of Human Infectious Disease
Until recently, no historian had taken up the challenge of synthesizing the burgeoning literature on the genomics of pathogenic agents, situating the major human infectious diseases in the context of human history and attempting to evaluate their impacts. For this reason, the publication of Harper's accomplished survey of the effects of infectious diseases on human history, Plagues Upon the Earth, is timely, needed, and most welcome
Political science (15 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · History (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Archaeology (7 obras) · Ethnology (7 obras) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (6 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras)