Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 (Social History of Africa Series)
by Walter Hawthorne
from Heinemann
Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" - or decentralized - societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region. He shows that decentralized societies were by no means passive victims of the slave trade, as commonly depicted in the literature, but vigorously defended themselves from the incursions of the raiders. The imperatives of defense and their participation in the trade led to a fundamental reordering of decentralized societies, especially in the realm of agriculture and agricultural labor, as rice became the staple crop in the region. Contrary to standard interpretations, Hawthorne shows that rice production and capacities for self-defense actually led to population increases among the region's decentralized societies.
Doctors Under Hitler
by Michael H. Kater
from The University of North Carolina Press
In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past.
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings
by Basil Davidson
from Monthly Review Press
Cabral is among the great figures of our time — these texts provide the evidence.
Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership And People's War
by Patrick Chabal
from Africa World Press
This book, first published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press and now issued for the first time in paperback with a new preface, tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau's nationalist movement, became one of Africa's foremost revolutionary leaders.
In less than twenty years of active political life, Cabral led Guinea-Bissau's nationalists to the most complete political and military success ever achieved by an African political movement against a colonial power. At the time of his death in 1973, months before Guinea-Bissau became independent, his influence extended well beyond the Lusophone world and Africa. Friends and foes alike admired his political acumen and skills and saw in him a potential leader of a non-aligned movement. His writings have shown him to be a sophisticated analyst of the social, economic, and political factors which have affected and continue to affect the developing world.
At a time when there is a general sense of despondency about the future of Africa, as well as cynicism about its political elites, it is instructive to be reminded that the continent has produced a political leader of Cabral's caliber.
Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series)
A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800
by Walter Rodney
from Monthly Review Press
Walter Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr. This book remains the foremost work on the region.
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention (African Art)
by Frederick Lamp
from Prestel
Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
by Jonina Einarsdottir
from University of Wisconsin Press
In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist JónÃna Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.
Lineages Of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society In Guinea-Bissau (Western African Studies)
by Joshua B. Forrest
from Ohio University Press
Guinea-Bissau (Reports / American Universities Field Staff)
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