P E H Hair
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| ID | 87168 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P E H Hair |
| PRENOMES | P E H |
| SOBRENOME | Hair |
| ASSINATURA | HAIR P E H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 153 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 294 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Africa Encountered
The Abortive Portuguese Settlement of Sierra Leone 1570–1625
The Use of African Languages in Afro-European Contacts in Guinea
Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Proto-missionaries
English missionaries called Sierra Leone 'The White Man's Grave'. Probably about one fifth of the 400 men who had sailed from Plymouth in October 1567 were dead when the expedition left Guinea less than six months later. John Hawkins began large-scale English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade: Richard Madox foreshadowed both the English shaping of African linguistics, and the pioneering work in Guinea of nineteenth century Protestant missio…
Before Vasco da Gama
Cherokee and West Africa
A cornerstone of the Western intellectual heritage is the fervent belief in the power of the written word to transform man and society. In this tradition, the existence of writing serves as a hallmark for civilization and a marker to separate history from prehistory. While a great deal of scholarly work has dispelled many myths about literacy, thus bridging “the great divide” between the written and the oral, our intellectual and emotional attach…
The Cowboys
From 1952 to 1955 I carried out field research in eastern Nigeria, centered at Enugu, and I wrote the paper below, with the present title, before leaving Nigeria, which to my regret I have never revisited. It is reproduced with a very slightly edited text (but added explanatory footnotes), since it now supplies a twofold historical testimony, first, to an African situation, and second, to the discourse interests (and terminology) of an expatriate…
Portuguese Documents on Africa and Some Problems of Translation
In 1983 a note in History in Africa described a survey of Portuguese archive documents on West Africa organized by Vice-Admiral Avelino Teixeira da Mota but left stranded by his untimely death in 1982. The task of continuing the project—by extending the survey, completing the transcription of the survey documents and other relevant material, and publishing the transcripts—has latterly been taken up by the present successor of Teixeira da Mota in …
J.W. Davidson at Cambridge University
Before arriving in Canberra in 1950 as the foundation Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University, J.W. (Jim) Davidson (1915-1973) was an Oxbridge don and author of a small book on The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council (1948). A New Zealander by birth and upbringing, Davidson arrived at Cambridge in late 1938 on a Strathcona Scholarship and embarked on a PhD dissertation at St John's College, becoming a Fellow in 1945 …
Slavery and liberty
(2000). Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 136-151
Franciscan Missionaries and the 1752 `Donation of Sierra Leone
The Franciscan mission to western Guinea between the 1660s and the late eighteenth century operated, from its Bissau centre, a 'Mission to Sierra Leone', whose priests occasionally reached the territory of modern Sierra Leone. Contact was made with the Afro-Portuguese resident in the Sierra Leone estuary, particularly with the Lopes family, and in 1752 a leading member was encouraged to make a 'Donation of Sierra Leone' to the Portuguese crown. T…
Franciscan Missionaries and the 1752 'Donation of Sierra Leone
Attitudes to Africans in English Primary Sources on Guinea up to 1650
This essay investigates the attitudes to Black Africans, specifically those of Guinea, as evidenced in the pre-1650 primary sources on Anglo-African relations. Two 1980s studies by scholars working within the field of English literature have investigated English attitudes of the period to Africans in general and have expounded what are apparently popular as well as academically-received conclusions, as follows. Contact with Africans and with the …
The English in Western Africa to 1700
Like many other parts of the world before 1700, western Africa was linguistically and ethnically fragmented. In consequence, it had multiple polities of varying size, structure, and potential. Down to the late seventeenth century, the European impact on western Africa remained limited, and the specifically English impact less significant than that of the Portuguese and Dutch. In Guinea, in contrast to Portuguese Angola, direct influence was restr…
A Jesuit document on African enslavement
(1998). A Jesuit document on African enslavement. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 118-127
Aspects of the Prehistory of Freetown and Creoledom
The immediate circumstances which led up to the founding of Freetown in the 1790s were highly contingent, even freakish. Christopher Fyfe has stressed the role of the scientist and dubious adventurer, Henry Smeathman, in publicizing the misguided view that the Sierra Leone district provided an ideal ecological environment for settlement. More recently, Stephen Braidwood has shown that the 1787 choice of Sierra Leone as a suitable locality for set…
Os Jesuitas e a Missao de Cabo Verde (1604-1642)
Heretics, Slaves and Witches
The History of the Baga in Early Written Sources
The extent of secure knowledge of the past of the groups of people known in scholarly literature as Baga is inconsiderable. This is in part because of the limited European interest in past times in the Baga homeland (on the coast of the post-colonial state of Guinée), and also in part because of limited scholarly investigations in recent times (the post-colonial state did not help by for long exiling or barring from access non-Marxist scholars). …
Elephants for Want of Towns
Bulama (otherwise Bolama) Island is the furthest inshore member of the Bissagos Islands, off the West African coast, in the present-day state of Guiné-Bissau. On the east side of the wide estuary of Rio Jeba, it stands near the mouth of Rio Balola. Small, low-lying, partly surrounded by sandbanks and swamps, often uninhabited, and considered by whites scenically attractive but very unhealthy, Bulama has appeared in historical records with disprop…
The Experience of the Sixteenth-Century English Voyages to Guinea
Portugal, Spain and the African Atlantic 1343-1490
Christian Influences in Sierra Leone Before 1787
Il existait des influences chretiennes au Sierra Leone avant 1787, c'est-a-dire avant les premiers etablissements occidentaux. Des les premieres decennies du XVI e siecle, des marchands portugais operaient dans la region a partir de bases situees dans les iles du Cap Vert. Depuis longtemps egalement, des eglises etaient etablies dans ces iles. Par consequent, les Portugais affirmaient qu'ils avaient le droit et le devoir de diffuser le christiani…
The Founding of the Castelo de Sao Jorge da Mina
A Short History of the Cartography of Africa
Drawing on the recent work of historians of Africa, this volume questions the contemporary wisdom about maps of Africa. Five centuries of pre-colonial mapping took place in the context of what historians see as continuity of imperial purpose by Europe. Consequently, the greatest influence on the evolving map of Africa was not the Age of Reason, but a more recent and short-lived aberration in the otherwise long-standing imperial relationship betwe…
Ethnolinguistic Continuity on the Guinea Coast
An inventory of ethnolinguistic units on the Guinea coast can be drawn from early written sources, that is, from Portuguese and other European records of between 1440 and 1700. When this inventory is compared with the present-day inventory it is found that, in the particulars cited, the units have remained very much the same for three, four, or five centuries. Summary evidence relating to the coast, section by section, from the Senegal River to t…
The Oyo Empire c.1600-c.1836
The Enslavement of Koelle's Informants
Accounts by 179 Africans of how they came to be enslaved are analysed. The Africans were drawn from a wide range of tribes in Western tropical Africa: their accounts were recorded in Freetown around 1850, and appear in S. W. Koelle's Polyglotta Africana of 1854. The majority of the informants were men enslaved before they were aged thirty; who shortly after enslavement were taken to the coast and shipped, then recaptured, liberated, and brought t…
Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition
Barbot, Dapper, Davity
It is over a decade since Professor Lawrence made a plea “for subjecting the sources for African history to that kind of critical appraisal which has customarily been applied to Greek and Roman authors.” Among Anglophone African historians, the plea has largely gone unheard. Could this conceivably be because critical source analysis is dull stuff for minds accustomed to the excitement of filling blank plains of African history with elephants of s…
The Early Sources on Guinea
The Guinea coast and near interior was a region of almost wholly preliterate societies before the coming of the Europeans. Islamic culture, with its literate strands, which had been spreading through the northern parts of West Africa over many centuries had barely begun to touch the Guinea region—although a handful of literate itinerant merchants and missionaries was to be encountered by the Portuguese, and Islamic religious practice had penetrat…
Buganda in Modern History
Journal Article Buganda in Modern History Get access Buganda in Modern History. By D. A. Low. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1971. 265 pp. Index. £2.50. P. E. H. Hair P. E. H. Hair Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 1972, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613691 Published: 01 January 1972
Cherokee and West Africa
A cornerstone of the Western intellectual heritage is the fervent belief in the power of the written word to transform man and society. In this tradition, the existence of writing serves as a hallmark for civilization and a marker to separate history from prehistory. While a great deal of scholarly work has dispelled many myths about literacy, thus bridging “the great divide” between the written and the oral, our intellectual and emotional attach…
Christian Influences in Sierra Leone Before 1787
Il existait des influences chretiennes au Sierra Leone avant 1787, c'est-a-dire avant les premiers etablissements occidentaux. Des les premieres decennies du XVI e siecle, des marchands portugais operaient dans la region a partir de bases situees dans les iles du Cap Vert. Depuis longtemps egalement, des eglises etaient etablies dans ces iles. Par consequent, les Portugais affirmaient qu'ils avaient le droit et le devoir de diffuser le christiani…
The Forgotten Trade
The chance discovery of the log of a slave ship - the Daniel and Henry which set sail from Dartmouth in 1700, bound for the Guinea Coast - prompted Nigel Tattersfield to make this investigation into an episode in England's provincial maritime history. After an Act of Parliament in 1698 released monopoly on trading in West Africa, respectable burghers in a dozen small provincial ports seized their chance of quick rewards from human souls. This boo…
Hamlet in an Afro-Portuguese Setting
For thirty-eight days in August and September of 1607, two ships of an English expedition to the East Indies lay in the Sierra Leone estuary, mainly in order that the sailors might recover from the scurvy developed in a four-months' voyage by drinking lime-water prepared from local fruits. When the ships returned from the East, journals of the expedition became available. Richard Hakluyt collected three, including that of the expedition's command…
Some Minor Sources for Guinea, 1519-1559
The earliest detailed account of Upper Guinea was written by Cadamosto, probably in 1463, and published in Italian in 1507. In the decade 1500-1509, a more detailed account was compiled by Valentim Fernandes, and a similar account of the whole Guinea coast was prepared by Pacheco Pereira—but neither of these Portuguese works was published in the sixteenth century, and even Portuguese writers of the period do not appear to have seen the manuscript…
An early seventeenth‐century vocabulary of Vai
1964). An early seventeenth‐century vocabulary of Vai. African Studies: Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 129-140
Attitudes to Africans in English Primary Sources on Guinea up to 1650
This essay investigates the attitudes to Black Africans, specifically those of Guinea, as evidenced in the pre-1650 primary sources on Anglo-African relations. Two 1980s studies by scholars working within the field of English literature have investigated English attitudes of the period to Africans in general and have expounded what are apparently popular as well as academically-received conclusions, as follows. Contact with Africans and with the …
Colonial Freetown and the study of African Languages
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Portuguese contacts with the Bantu languages of the Transkei, natal and southern Mozambique 1497-1650
Liverpool, The African Slave Trade, and Abolition
Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Protomissionaries
The great bay of the Sierra Leone estuary is a show-piece of tropical scenic beauty, and the nineteenth-century hymn-writer may well have been alluding to it when he spoke wistfully of the land where ‘every prospect pleases...’ Four centuries before that, the first visitors from Europe compared the wild peaked hills on the south side of the estuary, as they crackled with thunder in the summer storms, to the proud mane of a roaring African lion; a…
Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Bridal pregnancy in rural England in earlier centuries
A sample of 3,786 marriages, recorded in the parish registers of 77 rural and semi-rural parishes in 24 English counties during the period 1540-1835, is investigated. 49% of the marriages can be followed through to a maternity recorded in a baptism-entry in the baptism register of the same parish, i.e. the parish of marriage. Of these brides traced to a maternity, roughly one-third had their maternity recorded within eight and a half months of ma…
Aspects of the Prehistory of Freetown and Creoledom
The immediate circumstances which led up to the founding of Freetown in the 1790s were highly contingent, even freakish. Christopher Fyfe has stressed the role of the scientist and dubious adventurer, Henry Smeathman, in publicizing the misguided view that the Sierra Leone district provided an ideal ecological environment for settlement. More recently, Stephen Braidwood has shown that the 1787 choice of Sierra Leone as a suitable locality for set…
The Experience of the Sixteenth-Century English Voyages to Guinea
A Short History of the Cartography of Africa
Drawing on the recent work of historians of Africa, this volume questions the contemporary wisdom about maps of Africa. Five centuries of pre-colonial mapping took place in the context of what historians see as continuity of imperial purpose by Europe. Consequently, the greatest influence on the evolving map of Africa was not the Age of Reason, but a more recent and short-lived aberration in the otherwise long-standing imperial relationship betwe…
Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617 in English Translation
As part of a projected series of edited early Portuguese texts on Guinea, in the early 1960s the late Vice-Admiral Avelino Teixeira da Mota began to assemble, partly from archives, documents for a volume he intended to call Jesuit Reports . As it happened, many of the documents, especially those from Jesuit sources, were published in 1968 by another Portuguese scholar, the late P. Antońio Brásio. But Teixeira da Mota did not abandon his project, …
The Southern Sudan
The Southern Sudan: The Problem of National Integration Get access The Southern Sudan: The Problem of National Integration. Edited by Dun-stan M. Wai. London: Frank Cass. 1973. 255 pp. Index. (Cass Library of African Studies. General Studies, No. 152. Ed. Adviser: John Ralph Willis.) £3⋅75. P. E. H. Hair P. E. H. Hair Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 1974, Pa…
Dr. Roy C. Abraham
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An early seventeenth‐century vocabulary of Vai
1964). An early seventeenth‐century vocabulary of Vai. African Studies: Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 129-140
The Enslavement of Koelle's Informants
Accounts by 179 Africans of how they came to be enslaved are analysed. The Africans were drawn from a wide range of tribes in Western tropical Africa: their accounts were recorded in Freetown around 1850, and appear in S. W. Koelle's Polyglotta Africana of 1854. The majority of the informants were men enslaved before they were aged thirty; who shortly after enslavement were taken to the coast and shipped, then recaptured, liberated, and brought t…
Bridal pregnancy in rural England in earlier centuries
A sample of 3,786 marriages, recorded in the parish registers of 77 rural and semi-rural parishes in 24 English counties during the period 1540-1835, is investigated. 49% of the marriages can be followed through to a maternity recorded in a baptism-entry in the baptism register of the same parish, i.e. the parish of marriage. Of these brides traced to a maternity, roughly one-third had their maternity recorded within eight and a half months of ma…
A Nineteenth-Century Link Between Chinese And African Language Studies
In a recent paper on tone-marking systems employed during the last hundred years in African language studies, Professor Tucker has referred incidentally to parallel developments in Chinese language studies. The present note, offered as a footnote to Professor Tucker's paper, documents recognition, early in the nineteenth century, that Chinese and a number of African languages have in common the feature of semantic tone
Ethnolinguistic Continuity on the Guinea Coast
An inventory of ethnolinguistic units on the Guinea coast can be drawn from early written sources, that is, from Portuguese and other European records of between 1440 and 1700. When this inventory is compared with the present-day inventory it is found that, in the particulars cited, the units have remained very much the same for three, four, or five centuries. Summary evidence relating to the coast, section by section, from the Senegal River to t…
Africanism
The intellectual and social origins of those modern movements of political and cultural assertion which are allegedly centred on peculiar African circumstances or peculiar African principles of traditional culture-movements which may be conveniently summed up as 'Africanism'1-are to be sought in a variety of directions. Factors in the historical and social traditions of the continent in distant centuries have been evoked by some inquirers; while …
Guides to the Records of Early West African Missions
The systematic, academic study of history is barely two centuries old. Its progress has been marked by the discovery of new methods of investigation and of new felds to investigate, the two advances often linked, since many new fields were only recognized as worthy of exploitation when new methods made their exploitation profitable. In this perspective, the very recent development of interest in African history need not be regarded as sinister ei…
The Early Study of Nigerian Languages
Mortality from Violence in British Coal-Mines, 1800-50
Independent Africa
Journal Article Independent Africa: The Challenge to the Legal Profession Get access Independent Africa: The Challenge to the Legal Profession. By L. C. B. Gower. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1967. London: Oxford University Press. 1968. 154 pp. Index. (The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at the Harvard Law School, November and December 1966.) 32s. P. E. H. Hair P. E. H. Hair Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
The earliest vocabularies of Cameroons Bantu
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access P. E. H. HAIR P. E. H. HAIR University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 337, October 1970, Pages 862-a–862, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.337.862-a Published: 01 October 1970
Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Protomissionaries
The great bay of the Sierra Leone estuary is a show-piece of tropical scenic beauty, and the nineteenth-century hymn-writer may well have been alluding to it when he spoke wistfully of the land where ‘every prospect pleases...’ Four centuries before that, the first visitors from Europe compared the wild peaked hills on the south side of the estuary, as they crackled with thunder in the summer storms, to the proud mane of a roaring African lion; a…
Colonial Cadet in Nigeria
Journal Article Colonial Cadet in Nigeria Get access Colonial Cadet in Nigeria. By John Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1968. 202 pp. Index. (No. 34 in a series published for the Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center.) $7.50. P. E. H. Hair P. E. H. Hair Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 1970, Pages 389–390, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613886 Pub…
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Bridal pregnancy in earlier rural England further examined
This paper elaborates the argument of a previous paper (Population Studies, 20, 1966, pp. 233-43). The results of an investigation of the experience of 2,340 brides are broadly similar to those reported earlier: in particular, they confirm that bridal pregnancy was more common in the eighteenth than in the seventeenth century. Evidence is presented to suggest that the sixteenth-century experience was similar to that of the seventeenth, while the …
Diaire Congolais (1690-1701) de Fra Luca da Caltanisetta O.F.M. Cap
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access P. E. H. HAIR P. E. H. HAIR University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXL, July 1971, Pages 638c–639, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXL.638c Published: 01 July 1971
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access P. E. H. HAIR P. E. H. HAIR University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXL, July 1971, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXL.639 Published: 01 July 1971
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access P. E. H. HAIR P. E. H. HAIR University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXXXVIII, January 1971, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXXXVIII.195 Published: 01 January 1971
An Irishman before the Mexican inquisition, 1574-5
John Martin the Irishman was described by one of his shipmates as the unluckiest man in the English fleet. He himself, appearing in turn before the inquisition in Mexico, complained that he was ‘ the unluckiest mortal on board, as all he knew was how to sweep the ship, and everybody ill-treated him, and called him St Peter or St Patrick and a thousand other names ’. A little later, the inquisition scribe noted that Martin ‘ remained a while sighi…
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Deaths from violence in Britain
In recent years about 7,500 persons have been killed annually in road accidents in Britain. This 'slaughter on the roads' represents a mortality rate of around 150 per million persons living per annum (henceforth, pMa). 1 The vast majority of deaths occurred in accidents involving motor vehicles, 2 of which there were approximately 14 million in Britain in 1968. 3 Four decades ago the number ofmotor vehicles was less than one-quarter ofthat to-da…
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