TY - JOUR
T1 - The bondsman’s new clothes
T2 - The contradictory consciousness of slave resistance on the swahili coast
AU - Glassman, Jonathon
N1 - Funding Information:
1 'The Modern Prince', Selectionsfrom thePrison Notebooks, edited and translated by Quinton Hoare and Geoffrey N. Smith (New York, 1971), 200. Many thanks to Joseph C. Miller for his rigorous critique of an early draft. Thanks also to David Anderson, Steve Feierman, Karen T. Hansen, James Kern, Pier Larson, James Oakes, Steve J. Stern, Jan Vansina, and Ivor Wilks. Research was supported in part by a Fulbright Grant and by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. 2 E. J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels (New York, 1959), 2. 3 E. P. Thompson, 'Eighteenth-century English society: class struggle without class?' Journal of Social History, in (1978), 133-65. 4 For plebeians: E. P. Thompson, 'The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century', Past and Present, L (1971), 76—136, and 'Patrician society, plebeian culture', Journal of Social History, vn (1974), 382-405. Some agrarian examples: John
PY - 1990/7
Y1 - 1990/7
N2 - There exists a scholastic and academic historico-political outlook which sees as real and worthwhile only such movements of revolt as are one hundred per cent conscious, that is, movements that are governed by plans worked out in advance in line with abstract theory. But reality produces a wealth of the most bizarre combinations. It is up to the theoretician to unravel these in order to discover fresh proof of his theory, to ‘translate’ into theoretical language the elements of historical life.
AB - There exists a scholastic and academic historico-political outlook which sees as real and worthwhile only such movements of revolt as are one hundred per cent conscious, that is, movements that are governed by plans worked out in advance in line with abstract theory. But reality produces a wealth of the most bizarre combinations. It is up to the theoretician to unravel these in order to discover fresh proof of his theory, to ‘translate’ into theoretical language the elements of historical life.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0021853700025731
DO - 10.1017/S0021853700025731
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84972113801
SN - 0021-8537
VL - 32
SP - 277
EP - 312
JO - Journal of African History
JF - Journal of African History
IS - 2
ER -