Richard Rathbone
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83021 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Rathbone |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Rathbone |
| ASSINATURA | RATHBONE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 111 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 469 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Some Thoughts on Resistance to Enslavement in West Africa
In the analysis of slave resistance in the Americas there is frequent reference to the significance of the activists’ African past. The evidence for resistance at the point of enslavement is thin; a partial explanation of this is undoubtedly that flight was the preferred method of avoiding the raiders’ intentions. Throughout the course of the slave trade, West Africa had become a place in which one could trust few people and, luck to provide such…
Juggling Detachment and Empathy
Many years ago, I began working on what is, for older Ghanaians at least, an infamous murder about which people still speak.[1][1] It was a case which Kwame Nkrumah once hinted might provide us with some of the explanation of the less ideological motives of some of Ghana’s pioneer nationalists in
The Politics of Custom
The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital and the State in Contemporary Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 53(1), pp. 171–172
Edward Paice, Tip and Run
Edward Paice, Tip and Run: the Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa (London: Phoenix, 2008). Pp.560. £12.99. Pb. ISBN 978-0753823491. The East African campaign of the First World War seems doo
Law, Politics and Analogy in Akan Historiography
Although the early students of African history attempted to break with what they regarded as the hegemony of imperial history, they frequently deployed conceptual language drawn from the histories of the imperial metropoles. The terminology of African historical studies borrowed extensively from the taxonomy of western European history. While part of the reason for this might have been the perceived need to explain strange peoples, places and ins…
Casting “the Kingdome into another mold”
The pomp and partying of Ghana's Independence Day in March 1957 obscured some messy politics. The triumphalist story, widely accepted outside Ghana, of a heroic Nkrumah and the Convention Peoples' Party eclipsed alternative stories from the North, the rural areas and those who opposed Nkrumah. This article also considers the ironies and iconography of Ghana's 50th anniversary celebrations. Key Words: GhanadecolonizationindependenceKwame Nkrumah N…
Africa’s past
Historians of Africa face many of the same challenges as historians of other geographical areas. ‘Africa's past: historical sources’ shows how historians of Africa have been pioneers in the development of methods of research which have made research techniques more effective. The issue of evidence has been significant for African historians, as has the lack of written documentation. Much of what passed for African history before the 1950s fell wi…
Memory and forgetting, past and present
The notion of African history is only just over half a century old. Before then there was little or no scholarly engagement in the history of the continent. ‘Memory and forgetting, past and present’ summarizes how the tradition of studying African history came about and considers current developments. Where is the field heading? Historians of Africa need to take heed not to impose their own way of seeing the world on different cultures and other …
Imagining the future, rebuilding the past
The 1950s and 1960s saw dramatic change in Africa. By the mid-1950s, all of North Africa except Algeria was independent and by the mid-1960s most of tropical Africa had followed. ‘Imagining the future, rebuilding the past’ charts this period in African history and shows how this period also saw the emergence of African history as an academic discipline. Why did the European-ruled colonial empires collapse? Was this inevitable? During this climate…
The idea of Africa
Africa is a place, a people, and a past. ‘The idea of Africa’ considers the sheer scale of both the past and place of what we call ‘Africa’ and relates it to how the history of the region has been imagined and represented. The notion of ‘African history’ is controversial and contested. Some dismiss it as unimportant; others embrace it as an ideological weapon. It is difficult to apply a precise definition to African history for this reason. Can a…
Colonialism in Africa
The period of colonial rule in Africa came late and did not last very long. Africa was conquered by European imperial powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the 1960s, it was mostly over. ‘Colonialism in Africa’ considers how this period shaped African history. For some Africans, colonial rule was threatening; for others, an opportunity. Reconstructing the complicated patterns of this time is a massive challenge for historians of Af…
African History
African History: A Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented by examining the unity and diversity of African cultures, slavery, religion, colonial conquest, the diaspora, and the importance of history in understanding contemporary Africa. Africa has been known as 'the cradle of mankind', and its recoverable history stretches back to the Pharaohs. But the idea of study of …
Patrons, Clients and Empire
Journal Article Patrons, Clients and Empire: Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Get access Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1083–1084, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1083 Published: 01 September 2004
Africa's Urban Past
Power in Ghana from Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
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Power in Ghana From Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
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Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast
Peter Haenger, Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast: towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa, ed. J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy, trans. Christina Handford. Basle: Schlettwein, 2000, 213 pp., Sfr 48.00, ISBN: 3 908193 04 4. - Volume 72 Issue 3
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 368 pp., £37.50, ISBN 0 521 65231 6 (hard covers), £13.95, ISBN 0 521 65548 X (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Africa's Urban past
David Anderson and Richard Rathbone (eds), Africa's Urban Past. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2000, 320 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 761 2 (hard covers), £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 760 4 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
Shorter notice. The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson, 1623. DP Gamble, PE Hair [edd]
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson, 1623. DP Gamble, PE Hair [edd] Get access R Rathbone R Rathbone School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 725–726, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.725 Published: 01 June 2000
The transfer of power and colonial civil servants in Ghana
(2000). The transfer of power and colonial civil servants in Ghana. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 67-84
Shorter notice. War on the Savannah
Journal Article Shorter notice. War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903. Marjomaa Get access R Rathbone R Rathbone School of Oriental & African Studies, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.238 Published:…
Shorter notice. Voices from the Rocks
Journal Article Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. T Ranger Get access R Rathbone R Rathbone School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 461, April 2000, Pages 490–491, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.461.490 Published: 01 April 2000
Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
The end of independent chieftaincy must be one of the most fundamental changes in the long history of Ghana, and one of the central achievements that Kwame Nkrumah and his movement brought about. Nkrumah & the Chiefs examines a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. Richard Rathbone's pioneering work shows how chiefly resistance forced the government to seek control over rural areas by incorporating and redefin…
The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860-1930
This book examines in detail how the people of one formerly independent African chiefdom were absorbed into the wider South African society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first two chapters discuss the nature of the pre-colonial polity, changes in agricultural production during the early stages of colonisation, colonial policy and the beginnings of mass labour migrancy up to about 1910. The last three chapters, focu…
Reaction to Colonialism
Africa and the Second World War
Africa and the Second World War
Businessmen in politics
Ghanaian political parties appear to have shown strong ideological dissimilarities. Yet it can be shown that their memberships display marked regularities. This article concentrates on a highly important section of such members, namely small businessmen. Although they appear to have common interests the case is that there are real distinctions of explanatory import to be made within such a category. The first distinction is that between the estab…
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
Africa's Urban Past
Nationalism and New States in Africa
Defining Akyemfo
By the early twentieth century the ruler of the historic Akan kingdom of Akyem Abuakwa in what is now the Republic of Ghana and his subjects confronted one another over issues of identity and allegiance. The evidence suggests that not only was this debate unprecedented but also that its language was novel. Such divisive issues were forced upon them by a tranche of new factors. These included the ownership of, or rights to, land as farms acquired …
The Politics of Custom
The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital and the State in Contemporary Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 53(1), pp. 171–172
The History of the Family in Africa
The papers in this special issue of the Journal were originally presented to a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies under the joint auspices of the School and the British Social Science Research Council, in September 1981. The conference, which grew out of an earlier series of seminars run by the S.O.A.S. History Department, arose out of the editors' concern that the history of the family, which had become so lively and i…
Nkrumah and the Chiefs
The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah Get access The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah, by Henry L. Bretton. Pall Mall Press, 1967. xii,232pp. cloth 35s. paperback 11s. 6d. 455. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 267, April 1968, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjou…
Kwame Nkrumah and the Chiefs
THERE is a popular and reasonably accurate view of pre-colonial government in Africa which believes that Africans were governed by rulers who are usually referred to as chiefs. While there were some societies in Africa where authority was exercised in a less obviously hierarchical fashion, most African polities were dominated by individual rulers whose legitimacy depended, as in so many other parts of the world, upon descent and by their near mon…
Some thoughts on resistance to enslavement in West Africa
(1985). Some thoughts on resistance to enslavement in West Africa. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 11-22
Contemporary West African States
A Murder in the Colonial Gold Coast
This article looks at a murder case which resulted from allegations of ‘ritual murder’ in the course of Nana Sir Ofori Atta's final funeral rites in Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana, in 1944. At the level of the Akyem state, the accusations came from an affronted section within the polity, the Amantow Mmiensa , who had been defeated by the Stool in the course of the 1932–3 disturbances arising from the Native Administration Revenue Ordinance but whose grieva…
Paths toward the past
Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Journal Article Ghana and the Ivory Coast: perspectives on modernization Get access Ghana and the Ivory Coast: perspectives on modernization, edited by Philip Foster and Aristide Zolberg. University of Chicago Press, 1971. viii+303pp. £5.25. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 284, J…
African History
African History: A Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented by examining the unity and diversity of African cultures, slavery, religion, colonial conquest, the diaspora, and the importance of history in understanding contemporary Africa. Africa has been known as 'the cradle of mankind', and its recoverable history stretches back to the Pharaohs. But the idea of study of …
Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism
book is compelling, brilliantly written and immensely scholarly, a remarkable account... Bunmi Akpata-Ohehe, West Africa ...a scholarly and welcome addition to the history of British colonial education. History of Education Review The International History Review AHM Kirk-Greene ..a welcome contribution to the amplitude of studies on this or that aspect of higher education in anglophone tropical Africa - Commonwealth and Comparative Studies His d…
Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast
Peter Haenger, Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast: towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa, ed. J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy, trans. Christina Handford. Basle: Schlettwein, 2000, 213 pp., Sfr 48.00, ISBN: 3 908193 04 4. - Volume 72 Issue 3
The Youngmen and the Porcupine’
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The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah Get access The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah, by Henry L. Bretton. Pall Mall Press, 1967. xii,232pp. cloth 35s. paperback 11s. 6d. 455. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 267, April 1968, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjou…
The Government of the Gold Coast After the Second World War
Journal Article THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR Get access RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 268, July 1968, Pages 209–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095755 Published: 01 July 1968
Reap the Whirlwind; an account of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana from 1950 to 1966
Journal Article Reap the Whirlwind; an account of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana from 1950 to 1966 Get access Reap the Whirlwind; an account of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana from 1950 to 1966, by Geoffrey Bing. Macgibbon and Kee, 1968. 519pp. 63s. Dark Days in Ghana, by Kwame Nkrumah. Lawrence and Wishart, 1968. 166pp. 12s. 6d. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: …
Politics and Factionalism in Ghana
Essay| March 01 1971 Politics and Factionalism in Ghana Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Richard Rathbone is the author of a number of articles on Ghanaian politics. Until recently, he was coeditor of African Affairs, the journal of the Royal African Society, London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Schola…
West African Resistance
Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957–66
Journal Article Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957–66 Get access Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957–66, by W. Scott Thompson. Princeton University Press, and OUP, 1969. 462pp. £6·50. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 279, April 1971, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0…
Rulers of Empire
Journal Article Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa Get access Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa. By William B. Cohen. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. 1971. 279 pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $9.50. Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 1972, Pages 697–698, https://doi.org/…
Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Journal Article Ghana and the Ivory Coast: perspectives on modernization Get access Ghana and the Ivory Coast: perspectives on modernization, edited by Philip Foster and Aristide Zolberg. University of Chicago Press, 1971. viii+303pp. £5.25. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 284, J…
France and Africa
The Price of Liberty
The Price of Liberty: Personality and Politics in Colonial Nigeria Get access The Price of Liberty: Personality and Politics in Colonial Nigeria. By Kenneth W. J. Post and George D. Jenkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1973. 494 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. £8.00. Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1973, Pages 486–487, htt…
Businessmen in politics
Ghanaian political parties appear to have shown strong ideological dissimilarities. Yet it can be shown that their memberships display marked regularities. This article concentrates on a highly important section of such members, namely small businessmen. Although they appear to have common interests the case is that there are real distinctions of explanatory import to be made within such a category. The first distinction is that between the estab…
Reaction to Colonialism
Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya
Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya: A Study of Minorities and Decolonization Get access Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya: A Study of Minorities and Decolonization. By Donald Rothchild. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations. 1973. 476 pp. Index. £7⋅00. Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October …
Power and Politics in Black Africa
Black Star
Students and politics
World War I and Africa
The study of the history of Africa during World War I raises two major problems of synthesis and a host of smaller problems. First of all, the sheer diversity of the continent and the extremely uneven nature of its precolonial development, let alone the patchy and differentiated modes of imperial and colonial penetration, make it difficult to see its experience, even of so ostensibly cataclysmic an event as World War I, as a unified whole. Indeed…
Power and Class in Africa
The people and Soweto
John Kane‐Berman, South Africa: The Method in the Madness (Pluto Press, 1979. Pp. 265. £2.95. (First published in 1978 as Soweto: Black revolt, white reaction, Ravan Press, Johannesburg)) Baruch Hirson, Year of fire, year of ash (Zed Press, London, 1979)
The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa
Journal Article The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa: Essays in Contemporary History and Main Currents of West African History 1940–1978 Get access The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa: Essays in Contemporary History. By John D. Hargreaves. London: Macmillan. 1979. 141 pp. £10.00.Main Currents of West African History 1940–1978. By Frederick Pedler. London: Macmillan. 1979. £12.00. Pb:£4.95. Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone 1School of Orien…
Children under apartheid
Journal Article Children under apartheid Get access Children under apartheid International defence and aid fund for Southern Africa, London, 1980. 119 pp. £2.50. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 316, July 1980, Pages 446–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097245 Published: 01 July…
Central Administration in Nigeria 1914–1948
Journal Article Central Administration in Nigeria 1914–1948: The Problem of Polarity Get access Central Administration in Nigeria 1914–1948: The Problem of Polarity. By Jeremy White. Dublin: Irish Academic Press; London: Cass. 1981. 369pp. £17.50. Richard Rathbone Richard Rathbone 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summ…
F. K. Buah, A History of Ghana, London
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Ghana 1957–1966
Journal Article Ghana 1957–1966: the politics of Institutional dualism Get access Ghana 1957–1966: the politics of Institutional dualism, by Benjamin Amonoo. London, Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. 214. £15 00. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 323, April 1982, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjo…
Another dimension to the black diaspora; diet, disease and racism
Journal Article Another dimension to the black diaspora; diet, disease and racism Get access Another dimension to the black diaspora; diet, disease and racism, by Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King. CUP, 1981. 295pp. £20. RICHARD RATHBONE RICHARD RATHBONE School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 324, July 1982, Pages 443–444,…
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