Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon, C. 1850-1940

by Christopher J. Gray

A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460488
• ISBN13: 9781580460484
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"