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Author Reid, Richard J. (Richard James), author.

Title A History of Modern Uganda / Richard J. Reid, SOAS, University of London
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents Explanations, apologies and acknowledgements -- Prologue : a view from the museum -- Refractions : beholding Uganda -- Pensive nation : the age of blood and rebirth -- Rukidi's children : the trials and tribulations of Kabalega and Mwanga -- The adventures of Zigeye and Atuk : the age of opportunity and disparity -- Kings and others : history and modernity -- Epilogue : managing time and space
Summary This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and examines key points of rupture and transition in Uganda's history, emphasizing dramatic political and social change in the precolonial era, especially during the nineteenth century, and he also examines the continuing repercussions of these developments in the colonial and postcolonial periods. By considering the ways in which historical culture and consciousness has been ever present - in political discourse, art and literature, and social relationships - Reid defines the true extent of Uganda's viable national history. -- publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-394) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Colonial influence
Politics and government
Civilization
Manners and customs
Social conditions
SUBJECT Uganda -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139283
Uganda -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139289
Uganda -- Colonial influence
Uganda -- History -- 21st century
Uganda -- Civilization -- History -- 21st century
Uganda -- Social life and customs -- History
Uganda -- Social conditions -- History
Subject Uganda
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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