Some Source Books for West African History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A W Lawrence (0000-0002-8375-4144, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-234 |
| Publication date | 1961-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700002437 |
| OpenAlex | W2157047146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
In his recent book on the Royal African Company, K. G. Davies remarked that he had found himself obliged to conduct his research as though he were working on Ancient History. I have since experienced the same feeling when dealing with a more varied range of material, and this article is 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. In my case I was concerned only with the old European forts in West Africa, and from an antiquarian viewpoint, but the same considerations must apply more generally, and the examples that follow will, I trust, stimulate investigation of the writers where they deal with other topics
Ancient history · Archaeology · Epistemology · Feeling · Historiography · History of Africa · Plea · Political science · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Classics · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2018 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |