John Mccracken
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81390 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Mccracken |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Mccracken |
| ASSINATURA | MCCRACKEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6945-4762 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1942 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Placing community in the driver's seat
Addressing health inequities requires both national and local-level action. In the case of COVID-19, locally-led place-based programs were instrumental in addressing vaccination inequities that resulted from implementation gaps in national and state-level universal COVID-19 vaccination programs. To prepare for future pandemics, understanding which local strategies are effective and the conditions that enable their effectiveness is crucial. We con…
Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (Hapin) Trial in Rural Guatemala
BACKGROUND: Household air pollution adversely affects human health and the environment, yet more than 40% of the world still depends on solid cooking fuels. The House Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial is assessing the health effects of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and 18-month supply of free fuel in 3,200 households in rural Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. AIMS: We conducted formative research in …
Incidence and etiology of infectious diarrhea from a facility-based surveillance system in Guatemala, 2008–2012
There was a substantial burden of viral and bacterial diarrheal diseases in Guatemala, highlighting the importance of strengthening laboratory capacity for rapid detection and control and for evaluation of public health interventions
Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger was one of the most stimulating and influential African historians of the last half century. A scholar of remarkable energy, Terry, as he was universally known, had the reputation of
Unreasonable histories
Unreasonable histories: nativism, multiracial lives and the genealogical imagination in British Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 49(3), pp. 549–550
Two Previously Unknown Letters from Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Written from Edinburgh, 1938, Archived at the University of Cape Town
This article introduces, reproduces, and contextualizes two letters written in 1938 from Edinburgh by Hastings Kamuzu Banda to Samuel C. Banda (Chief Mwase of Kasungu) and Ernest C. Matako. At the time Banda was studying in Edinburgh. The letters, from a period when sources on Banda are scarce, illuminate his political and educational thinking and his personal life and attitudes at the time. The article also discusses the archival context of the …
A History of Malawi
This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi during the colonial period. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it places this history within the context of the pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingstone, followed by the pioneer Scottish Presbyterian missionaries and including soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians, played an influential part in shapi…
In the Shadow of Mau Mau
This article explores the influence of Mau Mau and of the counter-insurgency strategies devised by the British in Kenya on the state of emergency declared in Nyasaland in March 1959. It focuses on the hitherto largely undisclosed history of Malawian detainees both in Gwelo and Marandellas prisons in Southern Rhodesia and in Kanjedza camp near Blantyre, where conditions were notably more severe. The Kenyan influence was particularly evident in the…
International Human Rights Law in an African Context
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence Schäfer© 2009Eóin Flannery© 2009John McCracken© 2009Marc Caldwell© 2009Simonne Horwitz© 2009Saul Dubow© 2009Shaun Milton© 2009
Eye discomfort, headache and back pain among Mayan Guatemalan women taking part in a randomised stove intervention trial
Background: Indoor air pollution (IAP) from combustion of biomass fuels represents a global health problem, estimated to cause 1.6 million premature deaths annually. Aims: RESPIRE (Randomised Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects) Guatemala is the first randomised controlled trial ever performed on health effects from solid fuel use. Its goal is to assess the effect of improved stoves (planchas) on exposure and health outcom…
Imagining the Nyika Plateau
The Nyika National Park, which spreads across northern Malawi into Zambia, is conventionally depicted as a ‘natural museum’, one of the last remaining untouched natural habitats in Africa. As this article demonstrates, however, from the late nineteenth century onwards the Nyika has been represented in a variety of different and often clashing forms involving local inhabitants (the Phoka) and European missionaries, explorers and administrators. Fr…
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu (c. 1898–1997), president of Malawi
The Ambiguities of Nationalism
This paper seeks to make a contribution to our understanding of political ethnicity by focusing on the role of northerners in Malawian politics between the mid-1950s and the cabinet crisis of 1964. My initial aim is to throw light on one of the most important yet most neglected episodes in the history of Malawian nationalism: the emergence of a radical peasant-based movement in the north, which gained strength from 1956 and continued to play an a…
Retreat from Empire
Glittering success and near tragedy were the nodal points of Sir Robert Armitage's career during the turbulent final years of empire. Few colonial administrators reached the top so well prepared, yet after only nineteen months as Governor of Cyprus he was peremptorily replaced by a military governor, and only narrowly escaped being replaced prematurely as Governor of Nyasaland. The author draws on his unique access to Armitage's diaries, letters …
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on the religion and politics of the area, describing how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular Christianity, pitted against local notions of evil. It also examines the role of the chief, challenging the idea that the they were no more than colonial stooges. Key Features *Original and perceptive wri…
New Perspectives on the History of Christianity in Malawi
New Perspectives On the History of Christianity in Malawi
L'A. presente quatre livres publies et disponibles a l'Universite du Malawi au departement des Etudes religieuses. Ils fournissent un riche ensemble d'etudes de cas qui traitent de la relation complexe de l'Eglise et de l'Etat au Malawi - theme tres actuel dans un pays recemment libere de la dictature en partie grâce a l'action des Eglises. Il s'agit de Mission Blantyre et elaboration du Malawi moderne de Andrew Ross ; Christianisme dans le Nord …
Blantyre Transformed
There are good reasons why the remarkable outpouring of work on Southern African urban history that has taken place over the last twenty years has largely bypassed Malawi. To the overwhelmingly rural character of the Malawi economy must be added the weak impact of settler colonialism in the interwar period and hence the failure of Blantyre, one of the oldest colonial settlements in Central Africa, with a history going back to the foundation of th…
State of Emergency
Journal Article State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959–1960 Get access State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959–1960, by Colin Baker. International Library of African Studies, Number 7. Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. ix+299 pp. £39.50 hardback. ISBN 1-86064-068-0. JOHN McCRACKEN JOHN McCRACKEN University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, …
Democracy and Nationalism in Historical Perspective
The collapse of the Banda regime in 1994 has led to a renewed interest in the nature of the Malawian political tradition. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate by focusing on the political beliefs of nationalist politicians in the decade leading up to the cabinet crisis of 1964 which marks, in some views, the true origin of the Banda dictatorship. It suggests that early nationalist politicians like James Frederick Sangala and Levi Mumba co…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access J. L. MCCRACKEN J. L. MCCRACKEN Durban Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.215 Published: 01 February 1997
Terry Ranger
(1997). Terry Ranger: a personal appreciation. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 23, Terry Ranger, pp. 175-185
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access J. L. MCCRACKEN J. L. MCCRACKEN Durban Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Page 1000, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1000 Published: 01 September 1996
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES J. L. MCCRACKEN J. L. MCCRACKEN Durban Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 441, April 1996, Pages 497-a–497, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.497-a Published: 01 April 1996
The Church in Africa 1450-1950
Planters, peasants and the colonial state
(1983). Planters, peasants and the colonial state: the impact of the Native Tobacco Board in the central province of Malawi. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 172-192
Experts and Expertise in Colonial Malawi
Journal Article EXPERTS AND EXPERTISE IN COLONIAL MALAWI Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN The author is presently Professor of History at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, on secondment from the University of Stirling in Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 322, January 1982, Pages 101–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097384 Published:…
Politics and Christianity in Malawi 1875-1940. The Impact of the Livingstonia Mission in the Northern Province
Work and Control in a Peasant Economy
Peasants in southern Africa have too often been portrayed as technologically backward, chronically underemployed, and politically passive. Such views, says Elias Mandala in this finely particularized study of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, partake more of myth than reality. Peasants are first and foremost laborers, he points out, who spend most of their lives working with their hands to meet basic human needs. In making labor the center of hi…
A History of Malawi
This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi during the colonial period. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it places this history within the context of the pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingstone, followed by the pioneer Scottish Presbyterian missionaries and including soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians, played an influential part in shapi…
Democracy and Nationalism in Historical Perspective
The collapse of the Banda regime in 1994 has led to a renewed interest in the nature of the Malawian political tradition. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate by focusing on the political beliefs of nationalist politicians in the decade leading up to the cabinet crisis of 1964 which marks, in some views, the true origin of the Banda dictatorship. It suggests that early nationalist politicians like James Frederick Sangala and Levi Mumba co…
Coercion and Control in Nyasaland
This article examines the changing function of the Nyasaland police force between the 1890s and 1962. Initially, the police consisted of small groups of armed ex-soldiers, totally untrained in conventional police duties and employed by district officers in pressing labour and enforcing the payment of hut tax. In 1920, however, the authorities responded to the threat seemingly posed by the emergence of ‘dangerous classes’ – particularly labour mig…
Unreasonable histories
Unreasonable histories: nativism, multiracial lives and the genealogical imagination in British Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 49(3), pp. 549–550
Blantyre Transformed
There are good reasons why the remarkable outpouring of work on Southern African urban history that has taken place over the last twenty years has largely bypassed Malawi. To the overwhelmingly rural character of the Malawi economy must be added the weak impact of settler colonialism in the interwar period and hence the failure of Blantyre, one of the oldest colonial settlements in Central Africa, with a history going back to the foundation of th…
In the Shadow of Mau Mau
This article explores the influence of Mau Mau and of the counter-insurgency strategies devised by the British in Kenya on the state of emergency declared in Nyasaland in March 1959. It focuses on the hitherto largely undisclosed history of Malawian detainees both in Gwelo and Marandellas prisons in Southern Rhodesia and in Kanjedza camp near Blantyre, where conditions were notably more severe. The Kenyan influence was particularly evident in the…
The Ambiguities of Nationalism
This paper seeks to make a contribution to our understanding of political ethnicity by focusing on the role of northerners in Malawian politics between the mid-1950s and the cabinet crisis of 1964. My initial aim is to throw light on one of the most important yet most neglected episodes in the history of Malawian nationalism: the emergence of a radical peasant-based movement in the north, which gained strength from 1956 and continued to play an a…
Fishing and the Colonial Economy
Despite the evident importance of fishing in Malawi, its role in the territorial colonial economy has been largely ignored. This paper focuses on the evolution of fishing and fish-trading at the south end of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), emphasising the interaction between ecological change and changes in market opportunity. During the late nineteenth century, fishing played an important role in the economy of the Mang'anja people alongside agricultu…
Underdevelopment in Malawi
Journal Article UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN MALAWI: THE MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTION Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN Dr McCracken teaches African history at Stirling University, and he is also the author of Politics and Christianity in Malawi (Cambridge University Press, 1977) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 303, April 1977, Pages 195–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal…
Marginal men
In June 1952 the monthly political intelligence report produced by the Nyasaland police noted that Orton Chirwa, one of the leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress, was in correspondence with one George Shepperson who had sent him a typescript copy of his biography of John Chilembwe.1 In Whitehall, a senior official minuted disapprovingly that this was the same Mr Shepperson who would shortly be visiting the Colonial Office to discuss p…
Rethinking Rural Poverty
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Eye discomfort, headache and back pain among Mayan Guatemalan women taking part in a randomised stove intervention trial
Background: Indoor air pollution (IAP) from combustion of biomass fuels represents a global health problem, estimated to cause 1.6 million premature deaths annually. Aims: RESPIRE (Randomised Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects) Guatemala is the first randomised controlled trial ever performed on health effects from solid fuel use. Its goal is to assess the effect of improved stoves (planchas) on exposure and health outcom…
Retreat from Empire
Glittering success and near tragedy were the nodal points of Sir Robert Armitage's career during the turbulent final years of empire. Few colonial administrators reached the top so well prepared, yet after only nineteen months as Governor of Cyprus he was peremptorily replaced by a military governor, and only narrowly escaped being replaced prematurely as Governor of Nyasaland. The author draws on his unique access to Armitage's diaries, letters …
Economics and Ethnicity
This article focuses on the Italian community in Malawi, one of the smallest immigrant minority groups in Central Africa, but by no means the least important. Using the records of the Custodian of Enemy Property housed in the National Archives of Malawi, it suggests that, in the light of the Italian experience, there is need to modify the conventional view of the white farming sector as being uniformly inefficient and incapable of survival other …
Labour in Nyasaland
No period in the modern history of Nyasaland (present day Malawi) has received such intensive study as the half dozen years from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, marked by the break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Yet while the rise of nationalism, the growth of the Nyasaland African Congress, the activities of an embittered peasantry and the Byzantine manoeuverings of territorial and metropolitan politicians have been charted i…
The Conflict between the Irish Administration and Parliament, 1753–6
The history of eighteenth-century Ireland prior to the Volunteer movement is remarkably uneventful, but two episodes ruffled its political calm. They were the Wood's halfpence dispute of 1723–5, and the conflict between the Irish administration and parliament, 1753–6. It was the extent and vehemence of the opposition experienced by the administration in 1723–5 that led to the evolution of the undertakers—powerful members of parliament who underto…
African History in British Universities
Journal Article AFRICAN HISTORY IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN This is the Presidential Address delivered at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom held at the University of Stirling, 10 September 1992. John McCracken spent six years, between 1959 and 1965, at Cambridge University where his interest in African history was aroused by Ronald Robins…
The Conflict between the Irish Administration and Parliament, 1753–6
The history of eighteenth-century Ireland prior to the Volunteer movement is remarkably uneventful, but two episodes ruffled its political calm. They were the Wood's halfpence dispute of 1723–5, and the conflict between the Irish administration and parliament, 1753–6. It was the extent and vehemence of the opposition experienced by the administration in 1723–5 that led to the evolution of the undertakers—powerful members of parliament who underto…
The restless dominion
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Short Notices
Short Notices J.L. MCCRACKEN J.L. MCCRACKEN The New University of UlsterColeraine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXLI, October 1971, Pages 848–849, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXLI.848 Published: 01 October 1971
Politics and Christianity in Malawi 1875-1940. The Impact of the Livingstonia Mission in the Northern Province
Books reviewed
Edward A. Alpers, Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: changing patterns of international trade to the late nineteenth century (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975. pp. xviii+296. 7 Maps, 6 Tables. £7.00 and £2.80 p/b). Richard L. Sklar, Corporate Power in an African State: the political impact of multinational mining companies in Zambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. pp. x+245. $10.80) William Tordoff (ed.), Politics …
Underdevelopment in Malawi
Journal Article UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN MALAWI: THE MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTION Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN Dr McCracken teaches African history at Stirling University, and he is also the author of Politics and Christianity in Malawi (Cambridge University Press, 1977) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 303, April 1977, Pages 195–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal…
Politics and Christianity in Malawi, 1875-1940
Rethinking Rural Poverty
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Politics and Christianity in Malawi, 1875-1940
Sources of the African past
Politics and Religion in Central Africa
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access J. L. MCCRACKEN J. L. MCCRACKEN New University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXX, July 1981, Page 657, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXX.657 Published: 01 July 1981
Experts and Expertise in Colonial Malawi
Journal Article EXPERTS AND EXPERTISE IN COLONIAL MALAWI Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN The author is presently Professor of History at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, on secondment from the University of Stirling in Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 322, January 1982, Pages 101–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097384 Published:…
Planters, peasants and the colonial state
(1983). Planters, peasants and the colonial state: the impact of the Native Tobacco Board in the central province of Malawi. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 172-192
Central African History
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British Central Africa
At the beginning of the twentieth century the main engine of change in Central Africa was the British South Africa Company, founded by Cecil Rhodes. In 1889 it had received from the British government a charter to exercise powers of administration in the region. The birth of the new economy was associated with the emergence of new forms of racial and social division. For the infant settler communities, racial dominance was as much a matter of eco…
Coercion and Control in Nyasaland
This article examines the changing function of the Nyasaland police force between the 1890s and 1962. Initially, the police consisted of small groups of armed ex-soldiers, totally untrained in conventional police duties and employed by district officers in pressing labour and enforcing the payment of hut tax. In 1920, however, the authorities responded to the threat seemingly posed by the emergence of ‘dangerous classes’ – particularly labour mig…
Books reviewed
J. Parson, Botswana: Liberal Democracy and the Labor Reserve in Southern Africa (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and London: Gower, 1984). Pp. 145. £11.50. R. M. K. Silitshena, Intra‐Rural Migration and Settlement Changes in Botswana (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1983). Pp. 230. Df1.10. K. Shillington (comp.), Essays on the History of Botswana: a bibliography of history research essays presented in part fulfilment of the B.A. degree of the U…
Fishing and the Colonial Economy
Despite the evident importance of fishing in Malawi, its role in the territorial colonial economy has been largely ignored. This paper focuses on the evolution of fishing and fish-trading at the south end of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), emphasising the interaction between ecological change and changes in market opportunity. During the late nineteenth century, fishing played an important role in the economy of the Mang'anja people alongside agricultu…
A History of the Ngonde Kingdom of Malawi
Journal Article A History of the Ngonde Kingdom of Malawi Get access A History of the Ngonde Kingdom of Malawi, by Owen J. M. Kalinga. Studies in the Social Sciences 45. Mouton, Amsterdam, 1985. vii+175 pp. DM 95. ISBN 3 11 0096277. JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Expedition in East-Central Africa, 1888-1891
Colonialism, capitalism and ecological crisis in Malawi
One of the most important recent developments in the historiography of East Central Africa has been the growing interest displayed by historians in the process of ecological change. Pioneered in the 1970s by Helge Kjekshus and Leroy Vail, this approach challenged established orthodoxies by suggesting that, prior to the late nineteenth century, African communities were able to sustain viable ecological control systems with a considerable degree of…
The Story of an African Famine
Journal Article The Story of an African Famine: gender and famine in twentieth-century Malawi Get access The Story of an African Famine: gender and famine in twentieth-century Malawi, by Megan Vaughan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987. viii + 181pp. £22.50. ISBN 0 521 32917 5. JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 34…
Labour in Nyasaland
No period in the modern history of Nyasaland (present day Malawi) has received such intensive study as the half dozen years from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, marked by the break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Yet while the rise of nationalism, the growth of the Nyasaland African Congress, the activities of an embittered peasantry and the Byzantine manoeuverings of territorial and metropolitan politicians have been charted i…
Books reviewed
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. viii and 206. £25.00 Dorothy O. Helly, Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987). Pp. xviii + 404. £37.95. Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism. (London and New York: Longman, 1987). Pp. xiii + 462. £9.95 paperback Phyllis Lewsen, Voices of Protest. (…
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