Author: John Carmichael
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
African Eldorado
Author: John Carmichael
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Seeking El Dorado
Author: Lawrence B. de Graaf
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
The Quest for an African Eldorado
Author: Terry H. Elkiss
Publisher: Cross Roads Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: Cross Roads Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
An African Eldorado, the Belgian Congo
Author: Thomas Alexander Barns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
El Dorado in West Africa
Author: Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821411971
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all its dimensions - land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is textured with unexpected ironies and paradoxes. Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier, " which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821411971
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all its dimensions - land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is textured with unexpected ironies and paradoxes. Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier, " which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
El Dorado in West Africa
Author: Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780821411988
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier," which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780821411988
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier," which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
A Failed Eldorado
Author: Priscilla M. Shilaro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This work explores Britain's attempt to take land from the Bantu-Luyia peoples of Western Kenya for gold mining following the discovery of gold in the North Kavirondo (NK) reserve in 1931. The discovery led to the Kenyan gold rush, in which local European settler farmers and mining prospectors converged on Kakamega. The presence of mining prospectors in Western Kenya and the move to transform a rural agrarian terrain into an industrial one had important economic, political, socio-cultural, medical, and environmental ramifications for the inhabitants. This book illuminates the struggles of mine workers and dispossessed African households by looking at their actions and reactions toward the emerging British colonial venture of the region. Fundamentally, this work captures the largely undocumented histories of 'the common people' who lived through Kenya's failed eldorado.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This work explores Britain's attempt to take land from the Bantu-Luyia peoples of Western Kenya for gold mining following the discovery of gold in the North Kavirondo (NK) reserve in 1931. The discovery led to the Kenyan gold rush, in which local European settler farmers and mining prospectors converged on Kakamega. The presence of mining prospectors in Western Kenya and the move to transform a rural agrarian terrain into an industrial one had important economic, political, socio-cultural, medical, and environmental ramifications for the inhabitants. This book illuminates the struggles of mine workers and dispossessed African households by looking at their actions and reactions toward the emerging British colonial venture of the region. Fundamentally, this work captures the largely undocumented histories of 'the common people' who lived through Kenya's failed eldorado.
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Author: Elizabeth MacGonagle
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.
Eldorado Red
Author: Donald Goines
Publisher: Holloway House
ISBN: 1496742990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
When it comes to fast, authentic, hard-hitting street lit, the OG godfather of urban lit was in his bag with this joint set in the streets of 1970s Detroit, where blood isn’t always thicker than water. Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you're the top dog, the sure bet is that someone—everyone—wants to take what you got. You just never think your own flesh and blood will pull the trigger. Now Eldorado's son, Buddy, is on the run. The thing is, Eldorado wants to let him go, but in the law of the streets, retribution has a mind of its own . . .
Publisher: Holloway House
ISBN: 1496742990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
When it comes to fast, authentic, hard-hitting street lit, the OG godfather of urban lit was in his bag with this joint set in the streets of 1970s Detroit, where blood isn’t always thicker than water. Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you're the top dog, the sure bet is that someone—everyone—wants to take what you got. You just never think your own flesh and blood will pull the trigger. Now Eldorado's son, Buddy, is on the run. The thing is, Eldorado wants to let him go, but in the law of the streets, retribution has a mind of its own . . .
Journal of the African Society
Author: African Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description