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Alpers, Edward Alter was born on April 23, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Bernard Jacob and Lillian Alpers.
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Africa and the West: A Documentary History: Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present
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Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume 1 covers two major topics: the Atlantic slave trade and the European conquest. It details the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery as a business, the experiences of slaves, and the effect of abolitionism on the trade, using such documents as a letter from a sixteenth-century African king to the king of Portugal calling for a more regulated slave trade, and the nineteenth-century testimony of a South African slave accused of treason. The volume also covers the early nineteenth-century considerations of the costs and benefits of colonization, the development of conquest as the century progressed, with special attention to technology, legislation, empire, religion, racism, and violence, through such unusual documents as Cecil Rhodes's will and a chart of the costs of African animals exported to Western zoos.
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Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century by Alpers, Edward A. (June 1, 1975) Hardcover
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Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA AND ASIA By Alpers, Edward A. ( Author )Oct-01-2009 Paperback
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Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (ACLS Humanities E-Book)
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Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (ACLS Humanities E-Book) by Edward A. Alpers (1-Aug-2008) Paperback
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Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa
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Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) By Alpers, Edward A ( Author ) Hardcover 2006
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East Africa and the Indian Ocean
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For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While it existed at the periphery of the wider Indian Ocean in earlier periods, by the 18th and 19th centuries it was much more centrally engaged in these affairs.An interregional trade linked different sub-regions of East Africa to other Indian Ocean economies. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one thematic focus of this book, Indian Ocean commercial networks were much more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor. Islam provides yet another connective tissue linking Eastern Africa to the Indian Ocean world and a cultural matrix in which popular beliefs and practices were transmitted.This volume brings together a set of important essays published on various dimensions of Eastern Africa's role within the Indian Ocean world written by Edward A. Alpers, Professor of History at UCLA, over four decades. In different ways, each of these papers seeks to demonstrate that one cannot understand the history of eastern Africa without considering its wider regional setting in the western Indian Ocean.
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Edward Alter Alpers
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Edward Alter Alpers, American history professor. Fellow Ford Foundation, 1972-1973, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978-1979, Fulbright Foundation, 1980; Conference fellow Humanities Research Center, National Australia University, Canberra, 1998; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian grantee, Lisbon, Portugal, 1975.
Education
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1966.
Career
Lecturer history University College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1966-1968. From assistant professor to professor history University of California at Los Angeles, since 1968, dean division honors College Letters and Science, 1985-1987, dean honors and undergraduate programs, 1987-1996, chair department history, 2005—2010.
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Africa and the West: A Documentary History: Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present
(Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of prima...)
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East Africa and the Indian Ocean
(For centuries East Africa had an integral place within th...)
- Ivory and slaves : changing pattern of international trade in East Central Africa to the later nineteenth century
- Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century by Alpers, Edward A. (June 1, 1975) Hardcover
- Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA AND ASIA By Alpers, Edward A. ( Author )Oct-01-2009 Paperback
- Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (ACLS Humanities E-Book) by Edward A. Alpers (1-Aug-2008) Paperback
- Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa
- Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) By Alpers, Edward A ( Author ) Hardcover 2006
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Africa and the West: A Documentary History: Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present
Membership
Fellow Ford Foundation, 1972-1973, National Endowment for Humanities, 1978-1979, Fulbright Foundation, 1980. Member American History Association (member committee Joan Kelly Memorial prize 1998), Africa Studies Association (board directors 1985-1988, vice president 1992-1993, president 1993-1994), Association Concerned Africa Scholars (board directors 1983-1993), Alliance for Undergraduate Education (University of California at Los Angeles representative 1987-1995, co-chair 1989-1992), History Abstracts (advisory board 1994).
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Married Ann Adele Dixon, June 14, 1963. Children: Joel Dixon, Leila Sher.
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Fellow Ford Foundation, 1972-1973, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978-1979, Fulbright Foundation, 1980. Conference fellow Humanities Research Center, National Australia University, Canberra, 1998. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian grantee, Lisbon, Portugal, 1975.Fellow Ford Foundation, 1972-1973, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978-1979, Fulbright Foundation, 1980. Conference fellow Humanities Research Center, National Australia University, Canberra, 1998. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian grantee, Lisbon, Portugal, 1975.