Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant [Paperback]

Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

History

Jackson, Robert H.

Rosberg, Carl G.

Africa

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Robert Jackson examines the birth and survival of Third World nations since the end of the Second World War. He describes these countries as "quasi-states," arguing that they exist more by the support and indulgence of the international community than by the abilities and efforts of their own governments and peoples. He investigates the international normative framework that upholds sovereign statehood in the Third World. This he calls "negative sovereignty" and contrasts it with what he sees as the "positive sovereignty" that emerged in Europe along with the modern state. Within this structure, he examines how negative sovereignty arose, and its mechanisms and consequences for both international politics and the domestic conditions of quasi-states. He concludes by assessing the future of quasi-states and the institution of negative sovereignty.

Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 12)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

Robert Jackson examines the birth and survival of Third World nations since the end of the Second World War. He describes these countries as "quasi-states," arguing that they exist more by the support and indulgence of the international community than by the abilities and efforts of their own governments and peoples. He investigates the international normative framework that upholds sovereign statehood in the Third World. This he calls "negative sovereignty" and contrasts it with what he sees as the "positive sovereignty" that emerged in Europe along with the modern state. Within this structure, he examines how negative sovereignty arose, and its mechanisms and consequences for both international politics and the domestic conditions of quasi-states. He concludes by assessing the future of quasi-states and the institution of negative sovereignty.

Foreign & International Law

Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attempted to change just about every aspect of indigenous life. Emphasizing the effect of the missions on native populations, demographic patterns, economics, and socio-cultural change, this path-breaking work fills a major gap in the history of the Southwest.

From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest (Latin American Realities)

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840

Social Sciences

Univ of New Mexico Pr

"Well-documented study demonstrates that conditions within the California missions caused high mortality rates among the Indians"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians

Castillo, Edward

Americas

The University of New Mexico Press announces the publication of the paperback edition of Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840. This ethnohistory of missions in California, Arizona, and northwest Mexico seeks to answer questions long debated about how Indians fared when relocated and placed under the Church's care. Drawing on extensive and scattered archival sources, Jackson produces a sophisticated demographic analysis that permits evaluation of the causes, manifestations, and regional variations of the demographic collapse of mission Indians. 
The central finding is that diseases are only part of the explanation of population decline. In addition to deaths due to such illnesses as measles and smallpox and to psychological trauma, we must consider the effects of declining fertility among Indian women manifested in abortions, miscarriages, and death in childbirth. Moreover, the unhealthy conditions in missions often resulted in nine of ten children dying before age eight.

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Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 12)

Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 12)

From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest (Latin American Realities)

From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest (Latin American Realities)

Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840

Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians

Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840