Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia write by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya. This book was released on 2008-07-31. Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Study of the African diaspora is now a dynamic field in the development of new methods and approaches to African history. This book brings together the latest research on African diaspora in Asia with case studies about India and the Indian Ocean islands.
Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960
Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960 write by Ewout Frankema. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.
The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa
The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa write by Robert H. Taylor. This book was released on 2002. The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Universal ideas of freedom are to be found throughout the world’s diverse intellectual and political traditions, spread by the global trade in ideas which has grown exponentially during the past 200 years. In Africa and Asia, the conceptualization of freedom for individuals and societies has been heavily influenced by the translation of specific European or American ideas of freedom into new political and social contexts. This volume represents a pioneering preliminary assessment of some of the causes and consequences of this process. Africa and Asia have too often been portrayed in Western accounts as having no historical purchase on ideas of freedom, but the chapters in this volume reveal that these societies have long had their own ideas about the proper degree of individual autonomy relative to the authority exercised by the state and other institutions. The topics covered here are ideas of freedom in Africa from the slave trade era through colonialism to the nationalism that followed World War II (Crawford Young); the many forms of freedom in the states of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (William J. Foltz); why certain concepts of freedom have been empowered and others not in the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq (James L. Gelvin); the differing ideas of freedom in modern India for individuals and for specific social groups (Sudipta Kaviraj); the contrasting fates of ideas of freedom in Burma and Thailand (Robert H. Taylor); political struggles in the Philippines and Vietnam about the meaning and practice of freedom (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet); the evolution of the idea of freedom in Japan with respect to freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of association, and the liberation of such unfree persons as prostitutes (Sheldon Garon); and the ways in which Chinese conceptions of political freedom resemble or depart from modern Western conceptions (Andrew J. Nathan).
Morphologies of Asia and Africa
Morphologies of Asia and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphologies of Asia and Africa write by Alan S. Kaye. This book was released on 2007-06-23. Morphologies of Asia and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1997, Eisenbrauns published the highly-regarded two-volume Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Alan Kaye with the assistance of Peter T. Daniels, and the book rapidly became the standard reference for the phonologies of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Now the concept has been extended, and Kaye has assembled nearly 50 scholars to write essays on the morphologies of the same language group. The coverage is complete, copious, and again will likely become the standard work in the field. Contributors are an international Who’s Who of Afro-Asiatic linguistics, from Appleyard to Leslau to Voigt. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Alan Kaye on May 31, 2007, while these volumes were in the final stages of preparation for the press. Alan was diagnosed with bone cancer on May 1 while on research leave in the United Arab Emirates and was brought home to Fullerton by his son on May 22.
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy write by Peter K. J. Park. This book was released on 2013-03-11. Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant—a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism? This book includes the most extensive description available anywhere of Joseph-Marie de Gérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, Friedrich Schlegel's lectures on the history of philosophy, Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä Anselm Rixner's systematic integration of Africa and Asia into the history of philosophy, and the controversy between G. W. F. Hegel and the theologian August Tholuck over "pantheism."
