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CONTENTS

1. EAST AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
     Topography
     Climate
     Vegetation and Soil

2. THE PEOPLING OF EAST AFRICA TO C. 1000 A.D.
     Early Stone Age
     Middle Stone Age
     Late Stone Age
     Populations and Languages of East Africa
     Food Production and Iron Working
     The Early Iron Age and Bantu Migrations
     Early Nilotic Migrations
     Population Interaction and Absorption

3. THE EAST AFRICAN COAST TO 1800
     The Coastal Plain
     Azania: The Coast to 1000 A.D.
     The Swahili Period: 1000–1500
     The Coming of Portuguese Dominance: 1500–1600
     The Decline of Portuguese Control: 1600–1700
     The Omani Period at the Coast: 1700–1800

4. THE EAST AFRICAN INTERIOR: C. 1000 TO 1650
     Uganda
     The Rise of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms: Bunyoro-Kitara
     Origin of the Kingdom of Nkore
     Buganda Origins
     Lwoo Migration into Uganda
     Lwoo Migrations within East Africa
     Kenya
     Highlands Nilotes
     Plains Nilotes
     Bantu and River-Lake Nilotes of Western Kenya: the Luhya and the Luo
     The Thagicu Peoples
     Mainland Tanzania
     West Lake Region: the Haya States
     West Central Tanzania: the Ntemi Chieftaincies
     Eastern Tanzania

5. THE EAST AFRICAN INTERIOR FROM THE MID-SEVENTEENTH TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
     Uganda
     Bunyoro-Kitara
     Kabarega and the Rejuvenation of Bunyoro
     Buganda: Territorial Expansion
     Centralization and Strengthening of the Monarchy in Buganda
     The Kingdom of Nkore
     The Kingdom of Toro
     Lwoo-Speaking Communities
     Karamojong-Teso Movements
     Kenya
     Highlands Nilotes
     Plains Nilotes
     Western Kenya: the Luhya, Luo, and Gusii
     The Thagicu Peoples: Kikuyu and Kamba
     Mainland Tanzania
     Northwestern Tanzania
     Northeastern Tanzania
     Southern and Western Tanzania; the Coming of the Ngoni
     Long Distance Trade in Tanzania
     West-Central Tanzania: Trade and Political Centralization

6. EAST AFRICA AND THE WIDER WORLD IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
     Oman and the East African Coast
     Seyyid Said and Zanzibar
     Economic Impact of Nineteenth Century Trade
     Growth of External Commerce
     Anti-Slave Trade Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa
     Missionary Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa
     Christian Missions and Buganda
     European Adventurers as Precursors of European Involvement in East Africa

7. THE SCRAMBLE FOR EAST AFRICA
     Britain and Zanzibar: “Informal Empire”
     Egypt and the Scramble for East Africa
     Germany Enters East Africa
     Chartered Companies and the Scramble for Uganda
     From Chartered Companies to Protectorates

8. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EUROPEAN RULE: 1890S TO 1914
     Conquest and Resistance
     The Ecological Catastrophe
     Beginning Administration
     Economic and Social Considerations
     Uganda
     Britain and Buganda
     Buganda Sub-imperialism
     The Buganda Agreement of 1900
     Further Resistance to British Rule
     Further Expansion of Colonial Rule
     The Colonial Economy
     Missions and Western Education
     Kenya
     The Uganda Railway
     The Conquest of Kenya
     European Settlement and Land
     The Colonial Economy
     Missions and Western Education
     Social and Political Dominance of the Europan Settlers
     German East Africa
     The Conquest of German East Africa
     The Colonial Economy
     The Maji Maji Rebellion
     Reform and Development Under Rechenberg
     Zanzibar

9. EAST AFRICA FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR TO THE SECOND: 1914–1939
     Tanganyika
     The War and German East Africa
     The Start of British Rule in Tanganyika
     Sir Donald Cameron and Indirect Rule
     The Depression and After
     Improvement and African Politics
     Uganda
     Peasant or Plantation Agriculture for Uganda
     African Discontent and Politics
     Education
     Uganda’s Asians
     The Colonial Economy
     Kenya
     Kenya Africans and the War
     Toward European Domination
     The Asian Question
     African Political Activism after the War
     Settler Politics, Closer Union, and the Colonial Office
     The Colonial Economy
     African Protest in the 1930s
     Zanzibar

10. THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND ACHIEVEMENT OF INDEPENDENCE IN EAST AFRICA: 1939–1963
     World War II and East Africa
     Tanganyika
     Development and the Post-war Economy
     Colonial Policy and African Politics after the War
     TANU and the Triumph of Mass Nationalism
     The Colonial Economy
     Uganda
     Popular Discontent in Buganda
     Sir Andrew Cohen and the “Kabaka Crisis”
     National Politics and Buganda Separatism
     Toward Independence
     The Colonial Economy
     Kenya
     The War and the Mitchell Era
     The Coming of Mau Mau
     The Emergency
     Toward African Self-Government
     The Colonial Economy
     Zanzibar
     Evolution of Political Parties
     Toward Independence

11. INDEPENDENT EAST AFRICA, 1960S TO 1990S
     Independence and Dependency
     Attempts to Achieve Closer Cooperation in East Africa
     Tanzania
     Establishment of a Republic
     Tanganyika to Tanzania
     The One-Part State
     Socialism and Self-reliance: the Arusha Declaration
     Building a Socialist Tanzania
     Retreat from Ujamaa
     Foreign Affairs
     Uganda
     Cooperation and Conflict with Buganda
     Political Turmoil and the Kabaka’s Downfall
     Uganda’s New Republic
     Obote’s Fall and the Amin Dictatorship
     Post-Amin Uganda
     Foreign Affairs
     Kenya
     KANU and the Unitary State
     Two-Party Politics: the KPU
     Kenya in the 1970s
     The Moi Presidency
     End of the Moi Era
     Foreign Affairs

Selected Bibliography

Glossary of African Terms

Index

MAPS

  1 Main Physical Features of East Africa
  2 Simplified Vegetation Patterns of East Africa
  3 Modern Distribution of Languages in East Africa
  4 Bantu Languages of East Africa
  5 Distribution of Early Iron Age
  6 Dating the Early Iron Age
  7 Bantu Migrations
  8 East African Coast
  9 West-Central Uganda
10 Lwoo Migrations to East Africa
11 Lwoo Migrations within East Africa
12 Highlands and Plains Nilotes Before 1800
13 Western Kenya
14 Modern Distribution of Thagicu-Speaking Peoples
15 Mainland Tanzania
16 Buganda Expansion, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries
17 Teso Movements
18 Western Kenya in the Nineteenth Century
19 Ngoni in Tanzania
20 Nineteenth Century Trade Routes
21 Partition of East Africa to 1895
22 Colonial Uganda
23 Colonial Kenya
24 German East Africa

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Images, Illusions, and Reality: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Historical Perspective
-Irvin D.S. Winsboro

1. The Illusion of Moderation: A Recounting and Reassessing of Florida’s Racial Past
-Marvin Dunn

2. From Old South to New South, or Was It?: Jacksonville and the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Florida
-Abel A. Bartley

3. Brotherhood of Defiance: The State-Local Relationship in the Desegregation of Lee County Public Schools, 1954-1969
-Irvin D.S. Winsboro

4. Toms and Bombs: The Civil Rights Struggle in Daytona Beach
-Leonard R. Lempel

5. Planting the Seeds of Racial Equality: Florida’s Independent Black Farmers and the Modern Civil Rights Era
-Connie L. Lester

6. Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Florida’s “Public Mischief” Defense and Vigil Hawkins’ Protracted Legal Struggle for Racial Equality
-Amy Sasscer

7. “Wait” Has Almost Always Meant “Never”: The Long Road to School Desegregation in Palm Beach County
-Lise M. Steinhauer

8. The Triumph of Tradition: Haydon Burns’ 1964 Gubernatorial Race and the Myth of Florida’s Moderation
-Abel A. Bartley

9. From Old South Experiences to New South Memories: Virginia Key Beach and the Evolution of Civil Rights to Public Space in Miami
-Gregory Bush

Afterword: Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: Towards a New Civil Rights History in Florida
-Paul Ortiz

Contributors

Index

Editors:John B. Lamb, West Virginia University

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