Browsing by Author "Keese, Alexander"

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2014-04-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Die blockierte Erinnerung

Portugals koloniales Gedächtnis und das Ausbleiben kritischer Diskurse, 1974-2010

Lourenço, Isabel dos Santos; Keese, Alexander

Im Verlauf des Jahres 1974 brach das portugiesische Kolonialreich mit dem Sturz des autoritären Regimes im "Mutterland" in sich zusammen. Die engen Verbindungen, die das gefallene Regime stets mit dem Erhalt der ...
2011-10-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Early Limits of Local Decolonization in São Tomé and Príncipe: From Colonial Abuses to Postcolonial Disappointment, 1945–1976

Keese, Alexander

The article discusses the social conditions of São Tomé e Principe during the country's late colonial period under Portuguese rule and in the early years of decolonization. Particular focus is given to the social aspects ...
2011-02-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Editorial

Autoridades tradicionais africanas durante o período colonial

Keese, Alexander

This introduction of a larger special issue on the role of 'traditional chiefs' in sub-Saharan Africa gives a discussion of the state-of-the-art of research on chieftaincy, and presents the articles in this volume by ...
2012-07-11Zeitschriftenartikel

Managing the Prospect of Famine: Cape Verdean Officials, Subsistence Emergencies, and the Change of Elite Attitudes During Portugal's Late Colonial Phase, 1939-1961

Keese, Alexander

The 1940s were a watershed for the Cape-Verdean Islands. Massive drought and famines destroyed the subsistence base for a large number of the islanders. Thousands died under these conditions, while another large group was ...
2011-02-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Understanding colonial chieftaincy from its final phase

responses to the crisis of an institution in French-ruled West Africa and beyond, 1944-1960

Keese, Alexander

With the transfers of power in still-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, the epoch of ‘traditional chieftaincy’ seemed to be finally over. The chiefs, frequently regarded by historians and social scientists as a product of the ...