1 Introduction: Ways and Arguments Towards a “Global” Microhistory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Foreword xvii
6. 1 Introduction: Ways and Arguments Towards a “Global” Microhistory 1
7. 2 Linking the Global with the Local: A Village Crafted by the Slave Trade 54
8. 3 Christianity’s Double: Islamization as Slave Emancipation 85
9. 4 One Village, One People? The Colonization of Masters and Slaves 104
10. 5 The Grandmother of Poverty: A (Local) Periodization of Colonialism 138
11. 6 Uncaptured Again: History and the Subsistence Mantra of Development Studies 192
12. 7 Being Resettled: A Social History of the Mozambican War of Independence 252
13. 8 At the Margins of the Nation: Malawians at Heart in Mozambique 302
14. 9 From Victims to Voters: Renamo’s Delayed Supporters 338
15. 10 Tourism and the Return of Tradition and Custom: How to Find the Chief? 362
16. 11 From Slave Trade to Tourism: Towards a Local History of Matriliny 397
17. 12 Conclusion: The World and a Really Small Place in Africa 417
18. 13 Bibliography 422
19. List of Maps 469
20. List of Figures 470
21. List of Tables 471
22. Index 472