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Cover illustration:
Large photo: View of Joal-Fadiouth (Senegal). Photograph and copyright by Alexander Keese.
Photo insert left: “United Nations Trusteeship Council Grants Oral Hearing to African Petitioner”. (Conversation between Sylvanus Olympio, spokesman of the All-Ewe Conference, and Ralph J. Bunche, Director of the un Trusteeship Division, before the 11th meeting of the Trusteeship Council, 8 December 1947, Lake Success, New York, United States.) un Photo Archives, Photo 166842. Copyright by United Nations.
Photo insert right: Postcard: Paramount Chiefs from the Northern Province (Sierra Leone). Historical Postcard Collection of Sierra Leone Web (www.sierra-leone.org).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Keese, Alexander, author.
Title: Ethnicity and the colonial state : finding and representing group identifications in a coastal West African and global perspective (1850–1960) / by Alexander Keese.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Studies in global social history ; volume 22 | “An earlier version of this monograph was accepted as habilitation thesis by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 2010.” | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015040771 (print) | LCCN 2015039288 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004307353 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004307346 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004307353 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Ethnicity--Africa, West--History. | Group identity--Africa, West--History. | Africa, West--Ethnic relations. | Wolof (African people)--Ethnic identity. | Ewe (African people)--Ethnic identity. | Temne (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Classification: LCC GN652.5 (print) | LCC GN652.5 .K44 2016 (ebook) | DDC 305.800966--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040771
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