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Author:

Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003080230

Title:

Locality, mobility, and nation : periurban colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 / Benjamin N. Lawrance.

Publisher:

University of Rochester Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ewe (African people)--History--20th century.
Ewe (African people)--Politics and government--20th century.
Nationalism--Togo.
Togo--History.
Togo--Autonomy and independence movements.--Autonomy and independence movements.
Decolonization--Togo--History.
France--History--Africa--History--20th century.
Rural-urban relations--Togo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-275) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : conceptualizing periurban colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa -- Mobility, locality, and Ewe identity in periurban Eweland -- Intervention and dissent : manufacturing the model periurban chief -- Crisis in an Ewe capital : the periurban zone descends on the city -- Vodou and resistance : politico-religious crises in the periurban landscape -- The German Togo-bund and the periurban manifestations of nation -- From Eweland to la République Togolaise : the Guide du Togo and the periurban circulation of knowledge.

Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 31

ISBN:

1580462642
9781580462648

OCLC:

(OCoLC)122424165

LCCN:

2007012886

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)