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"Elizabeth Schmidt's latest book is a welcome addition to African historiography and in particular among works seeking to recast and question our historical interpretation of post-World War II African nationalism. This is a groundbreaking work both in its scope and methodology, as Schmidt combines careful archival work with nuanced use of oral histories. The result is a much needed synthesis of two previously opposing tropes: the political narrative of African nationalism as the confines of elite Western-educated men, and the social historian's understanding of non-elite participation in strikes, community politics, and regional and ethnic associations....The "masses" in Schmidt's work are far from undifferentiated or docile, and the resulting narrative offers numerable insights into the nature of African politics not only in the period of nationalist mobilization but for other periods as well, including the recent past."-Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"This book makes a welcome contribution to studies of independence movements, gender roles and political participation, and Guinea's tumultuous and rich history. It also opens the door to more investigations on political participation and mobilization in Guinea."-The Journal of African History
"Guinea's singular affront to France-preferring immediate independence to President Charles de Gaulle's offer of "Community"-is generally attributed to the audacity of Ahmed Sekou Toure, trade-union activist, national party leader, and Guinea's first president. Schmidt challenges this dominant perception with her remarkable study of Guinea's grassroots nationalist movement. She contends that although Sekou Toure and other African Democratic Rally (rda) leaders skillfully harnessed anticolonial sentiments among the masses to achieve early electoral success against rival parties, the masses were, in fact, responsible later for compelling the rda leadership into the radical demand of immediate independence. To support this contention, Schmidt culled an impressive array of existing literature in French and English, bringing to Anglophone audiences the insights of Guinean scholars in particular, hitherto largely hidden behind the language barrier."-Journal of Interdisciplinary History
?This book makes a welcome contribution to studies of independence movements, gender roles and political participation, and Guinea's tumultuous and rich history. It also opens the door to more investigations on political participation and mobilization in Guinea.?-The Journal of African History
?Using a variety of archival and oral sources, the latter to very good discursive effect, Schmidt has written a highly readable, jargon-free, and well-organized account of Guinean African nationalism from below. In the often peculiar lexical universe of academic discourse, this is no mean achievement....[s]he has produced a model text, one of the best dissections of a nationalist movement anywhere in Africa. Hers is a foremost contribution to the literature as well as the interpretation of African nationalism.?-American Historical Review
?Instead of the traditional top-down approach to nationalist anticolonial movements, this study adopts a "bottom-up" approach. Schmidt examines the role played by the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique (Democratique) Africain (RDA) in achieving independence from France, focusing on the ability of its Western-educated elites to form a broad-based ethnic, class, and gender alliance with grassroots groups (military veterans, trade unionists, peasants, and women) that had their own grievances against the French colonial state and its native collaborators (chiefs). Schmidt convincingly argues that these groups shaped the party's nationalist agenda and struggle....[a] timely contribution to the scholarship on African anticolonial nationalism. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.?-Choice
?Elizabeth Schmidt's latest book is a welcome addition to African historiography and in particular among works seeking to recast and question our historical interpretation of post-World War II African nationalism. This is a groundbreaking work both in its scope and methodology, as Schmidt combines careful archival work with nuanced use of oral histories. The result is a much needed synthesis of two previously opposing tropes: the political narrative of African nationalism as the confines of elite Western-educated men, and the social historian's understanding of non-elite participation in strikes, community politics, and regional and ethnic associations....The "masses" in Schmidt's work are far from undifferentiated or docile, and the resulting narrative offers numerable insights into the nature of African politics not only in the period of nationalist mobilization but for other periods as well, including the recent past.?-Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
?Guinea's singular affront to France-preferring immediate independence to President Charles de Gaulle's offer of "Community"-is generally attributed to the audacity of Ahmed Sekou Toure, trade-union activist, national party leader, and Guinea's first president. Schmidt challenges this dominant perception with her remarkable study of Guinea's grassroots nationalist movement. She contends that although Sekou Toure and other African Democratic Rally (rda) leaders skillfully harnessed anticolonial sentiments among the masses to achieve early electoral success against rival parties, the masses were, in fact, responsible later for compelling the rda leadership into the radical demand of immediate independence. To support this contention, Schmidt culled an impressive array of existing literature in French and English, bringing to Anglophone audiences the insights of Guinean scholars in particular, hitherto largely hidden behind the language barrier.?-Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Using a variety of archival and oral sources, the latter to very good discursive effect, Schmidt has written a highly readable, jargon-free, and well-organized account of Guinean African nationalism from below. In the often peculiar lexical universe of academic discourse, this is no mean achievement....[s]he has produced a model text, one of the best dissections of a nationalist movement anywhere in Africa. Hers is a foremost contribution to the literature as well as the interpretation of African nationalism."-American Historical Review
"Instead of the traditional top-down approach to nationalist anticolonial movements, this study adopts a "bottom-up" approach. Schmidt examines the role played by the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique (Democratique) Africain (RDA) in achieving independence from France, focusing on the ability of its Western-educated elites to form a broad-based ethnic, class, and gender alliance with grassroots groups (military veterans, trade unionists, peasants, and women) that had their own grievances against the French colonial state and its native collaborators (chiefs). Schmidt convincingly argues that these groups shaped the party's nationalist agenda and struggle....[a] timely contribution to the scholarship on African anticolonial nationalism. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above."-Choice
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"This book makes a welcome contribution to studies of independence movements, gender roles and political participation, and Guinea's tumultuous and rich history. It also opens the door to more investigations on political participation and mobilization in Guinea."-The Journal of African History
"Guinea's singular affront to France-preferring immediate independence to President Charles de Gaulle's offer of "Community"-is generally attributed to the audacity of Ahmed Sekou Toure, trade-union activist, national party leader, and Guinea's first president. Schmidt challenges this dominant perception with her remarkable study of Guinea's grassroots nationalist movement. She contends that although Sekou Toure and other African Democratic Rally (rda) leaders skillfully harnessed anticolonial sentiments among the masses to achieve early electoral success against rival parties, the masses were, in fact, responsible later for compelling the rda leadership into the radical demand of immediate independence. To support this contention, Schmidt culled an impressive array of existing literature in French and English, bringing to Anglophone audiences the insights of Guinean scholars in particular, hitherto largely hidden behind the language barrier."-Journal of Interdisciplinary History
?This book makes a welcome contribution to studies of independence movements, gender roles and political participation, and Guinea's tumultuous and rich history. It also opens the door to more investigations on political participation and mobilization in Guinea.?-The Journal of African History
?Using a variety of archival and oral sources, the latter to very good discursive effect, Schmidt has written a highly readable, jargon-free, and well-organized account of Guinean African nationalism from below. In the often peculiar lexical universe of academic discourse, this is no mean achievement....[s]he has produced a model text, one of the best dissections of a nationalist movement anywhere in Africa. Hers is a foremost contribution to the literature as well as the interpretation of African nationalism.?-American Historical Review
?Instead of the traditional top-down approach to nationalist anticolonial movements, this study adopts a "bottom-up" approach. Schmidt examines the role played by the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique (Democratique) Africain (RDA) in achieving independence from France, focusing on the ability of its Western-educated elites to form a broad-based ethnic, class, and gender alliance with grassroots groups (military veterans, trade unionists, peasants, and women) that had their own grievances against the French colonial state and its native collaborators (chiefs). Schmidt convincingly argues that these groups shaped the party's nationalist agenda and struggle....[a] timely contribution to the scholarship on African anticolonial nationalism. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.?-Choice
?Elizabeth Schmidt's latest book is a welcome addition to African historiography and in particular among works seeking to recast and question our historical interpretation of post-World War II African nationalism. This is a groundbreaking work both in its scope and methodology, as Schmidt combines careful archival work with nuanced use of oral histories. The result is a much needed synthesis of two previously opposing tropes: the political narrative of African nationalism as the confines of elite Western-educated men, and the social historian's understanding of non-elite participation in strikes, community politics, and regional and ethnic associations....The "masses" in Schmidt's work are far from undifferentiated or docile, and the resulting narrative offers numerable insights into the nature of African politics not only in the period of nationalist mobilization but for other periods as well, including the recent past.?-Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
?Guinea's singular affront to France-preferring immediate independence to President Charles de Gaulle's offer of "Community"-is generally attributed to the audacity of Ahmed Sekou Toure, trade-union activist, national party leader, and Guinea's first president. Schmidt challenges this dominant perception with her remarkable study of Guinea's grassroots nationalist movement. She contends that although Sekou Toure and other African Democratic Rally (rda) leaders skillfully harnessed anticolonial sentiments among the masses to achieve early electoral success against rival parties, the masses were, in fact, responsible later for compelling the rda leadership into the radical demand of immediate independence. To support this contention, Schmidt culled an impressive array of existing literature in French and English, bringing to Anglophone audiences the insights of Guinean scholars in particular, hitherto largely hidden behind the language barrier.?-Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Using a variety of archival and oral sources, the latter to very good discursive effect, Schmidt has written a highly readable, jargon-free, and well-organized account of Guinean African nationalism from below. In the often peculiar lexical universe of academic discourse, this is no mean achievement....[s]he has produced a model text, one of the best dissections of a nationalist movement anywhere in Africa. Hers is a foremost contribution to the literature as well as the interpretation of African nationalism."-American Historical Review
"Instead of the traditional top-down approach to nationalist anticolonial movements, this study adopts a "bottom-up" approach. Schmidt examines the role played by the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique (Democratique) Africain (RDA) in achieving independence from France, focusing on the ability of its Western-educated elites to form a broad-based ethnic, class, and gender alliance with grassroots groups (military veterans, trade unionists, peasants, and women) that had their own grievances against the French colonial state and its native collaborators (chiefs). Schmidt convincingly argues that these groups shaped the party's nationalist agenda and struggle....[a] timely contribution to the scholarship on African anticolonial nationalism. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above."-Choice
The Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA) led Guinea to independence in 1958, advancing a wave of decolonization that ultimately swept across Africa. Schmidt attributes the RDA's overwhelming success to its ability to form a broad ethnic, class, and gender alliance, whose strength lay in its solid support among the non-literate masses. Key to the party's prowess was its focus on groups already engaged in struggle against the state: military veterans, urban workers, peasants, and women. It was their grievances that drove the nationalist agenda and their energies that were harnessed in the struggle for independence. The source of the party's strength was also the root of its greatest weakness. Disputes over ethnicity, class, and gender, and eruptions of ethnically based political violence, were a constant threat to the nationalist movement. Ultimately, it was the RDA's radical base that rejected junior partnership in the French Community, pushing the party leadership to endorse immediate independence. Based on previously unexamined archival records and oral interviews with rank-and-file RDA members, this book reinterprets nationalist history by approaching it from the bottom up. It illuminates the ways in which grassroots activists shaped the movement's vision, objectives, and strategies. The significance of Schmidt's work extends far beyond Guinea. It raises important theoretical and methodological issues that transform our understanding of anti-colonial nationalism in the non-Western world.
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- EditorialHeinemann Educational Books,U.S.
- Año de publicación2005
- ISBN 10 0325070318
- ISBN 13 9780325070315
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- Número de páginas308
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