Citizen and subject contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani, with a new preface by the author.
| Author/creator | Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | New paperback edition. |
| Publication Info | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018] |
| Description | xxiv, 353 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Series | Princeton studies in culture/power/history Princeton studies in culture/power/history. ^A251672 |
| Contents | Introduction: thinking through Africa's impasse -- The structure of power. Decentralized despotism ; Indirect rule: the politics of decentralized despotism ; Customary law: the theory of decentralized despotism ; The native authority and the free peasantry -- The anatomy of resistance. The other face of tribalism: peasant movements in equatorial Africa ; The rural in the urban: migrant workers in South Africa ; Conclusion: linking the urban and the rural. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-337) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017958312 |
| ISBN | 0691180423 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780691180427 (paperback) |