African Social Studies, A Radical Reader

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Publisher
Monthly Review
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Publication
1977
Number of Pages
1
Classification
II Regions and countries | A Africa | 99 Africa: General
Description
--- Introduction
Waterman: On radicalism in African Studies
--- Methodology: The Weapon of Theory
Copans: African Studies: a periodization
Onoge: Revolutionary imperatives in African Sociology
Legassick: The concept of pluralism: a critique
Brett: Problems in analysing colonial change
Abdel-Malek: Sociology and economic history: an essay on mediation
--- History: Historical stages and transition
Coquery-Vidrovitch: Research on an African mode of production
Goody: Polity and the means of production
Rodney: Technological stagnation and economic distortion in pre-colonial times
Ehrensaft: The rise of a proto-bourgeoisie in Yorubaland
Suret-Canale: The economic balance sheet of French colonialism in West Africa
Saul: Nationalism, socialism and Tanzanian history
--- Economy, the political economy of colonialism and neo-colonialism
Development and stagnation in agriculture
Amin:  a) The dynamic and limitations of agrarian capitalism in Black Africa
Kom: b) The co-operative movement in the Cameroons
Seidman: c) Agricultural stagnation in Uganda
Arrighi: Foreign investment patterns
Goncharov: On the drain of capital from the African countries
Amin: Income distribution and the ¨priviledged" worker
Allen: Incomes policy and union power
Shivji: The mixed sector and imperialist control in Tanzania
Hughes: Preconditions of socialist development in Africa
--- Social structure: The process of class formation
Cabral: Brief analysis of the social structure of Guinea-Bissau
Atieno-Odhiambo: The rise and decline of the Kenya peasant, 1888 - 1922
Post: Peasantization in Western Africa
Gutkind: Social organization of the unemployed in Lagos and Nairobi
Diop: Workers in Mali
Woddis: Is there an African national bourgeoisie?
Wallerstein: Class and status in contemporary Africa
Williams: Class relations in a neo-colony: The case of Nigeria
--- Ideology: Ideas as a material force
Davidson: A science of social control
Hodgkin: Mahdism, Messianism and Mearxism in the African setting
Benot: The impact of stalinism on radical African socialists
Saul: Populism and the aspiration for solidarity
Johnson: Sékou Touré: the man and his ideas
Nduka: The rationality of the rich in Nigeria
--- Politics: rilers, masses and political power
Leys: Political implications of the development of peasant society in Kenya
Clegg: Workers' control: the Algerian experience
Osoba: The Nigerian power elite, 1952 - 65
Murray: The social roots and political nature of military régimes
Chaliand: The political strategy of guerrilla warfare
Diop: Tactical problems of the socialist option in Mali
Mafeje: Neo-colonialism, state capitalism, or revolution?
--- A Bibliographical guide
Allen: Radical themes in African Social Studies
Copy Number
1
Identifier
II A 99  GUT  reg 811
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