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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Trevor Getz , Liz ClarkePublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 24.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 17.50cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780190238742ISBN 10: 0190238747 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 04 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Maps and Figures Letter to the Reader Acknowledgments A Note on Ghanaian Ideograms PART I: THE GRAPHIC HISTORY Chapter 1: Abina Awakes Chapter 2: The Breaking of the Beads Chapter 3: The Truth Chapter 4: Life at Quamina Eddoo's House Chapter 5: He Did Nothing Good for Me Chapter 6: Abina Silenced, Abina Redeemed PART II: THE TRANSCRIPT The Testimony of Abina Mansah The Testimony of Eccoah Coom The Testimony of Adjuah N'Yamiweh The Testimony of Yowahwah PART III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT The Gold Coast, ca. 1876 The British Civilizing Mission The Civilizing Mission in the Gold Coast Slavery in the Gold Coast The Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition Abina Mansah and the Important Men PART IV: READING GUIDE Whose Story Is This? Is This a ""True"" Story? Is This ""Authentic"" History? PART V: ENGAGING ABINA Gendering Abina Was Abina a slave? Sandra Greene, ""Who was Abina Mansah?"" Kwasi Konadu, ""Was Abina Mansah a 'Slave'?"" Antoinette Burton, ""Sex and Slavery in the 1876 Case of Abina Mansah"" Reading Questions Introductory Questions, for Students at All Levels Questions for Students at the University or College Level Additional Questions for Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Students Timeline Further Resources Abina Mansah Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast About Colonialism and the Gold Coast General Histories of Africa Imperialism and Colonialism Gender and African History Web Resources Preliminary Sketches Glossary"ReviewsAbina and the Important Men makes a signal contribution to the teaching and learning of history by engaging students at multiple levels. The use of graphic representations and a compelling character-driven narrative succeeds in immersing students in a foreign time and place, and in doing so restores voice to a woman whose story would otherwise have been lost to history. Kenneth R. Curtis, California State University, Long Beach Abina and the Important Men stands alone. It is neither a textbook nor a primary source reader, because unlike those types, it offers a discrete, contained, contextualized, and concentrated discussion/analysis of a single primary source, a remarkable document that serves naturally as a bridge to an equally remarkable discussion for students of what it means to do history, and to think and write historically. Thus, by so creatively contextualizing a historical corner of Africa, it is both a fantastic introduction to African history and an illuminating introduction to the cognitive challenges and benefits of historical thinking. Whereas standard textbooks are typically information driven and beholden to content coverage requirements - and, therefore, rather like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep - Abina offers the great luxury of narrating and investigating a dramatic moment in time. Chris Padgett, American River College Abina and the Important Men is, without question, the best and most accessible introduction to historical thinking that I have encountered. Students are engrossed by the story and the illustrations; it excites them in ways that no other text has. It obviously tells an important story about slavery and colonialism in nineteenth-century Africa, of great use to any course that touches on these subjects. But, it's greatest contribution to the classroom is conveying to students, through Trevor Getz's encounter with Abina, what historians do and why our work is important. Reading this text makes students understand that history is more than a set of facts and dates; removing this mental barrier opens up new possibilities for engaging them in the excitement and value of studying the past. Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State College The quality of the illustrations in this text makes the life history of Abina Mansah more accessible to undergraduates with little experience in African history or the history of slaves. Additionally, by providing the court transcript in the book, this text enables professors to address the difficulties of methodologies and recreating historical contexts with piecemeal empirical evidence. Sarah Zimmerman, Western Washington University Abina's heroic efforts to gain her freedom and her moving trial provide a strong narrative that engages students in the young woman's struggle against the rich and powerful men who seek to control her. Getz's is a talented historian who does a wonderful job contextualizing the story. The book also provides readers with the transcript of the case which allows them to understand the difference between primary and secondary sources and the other teaching tools are equally useful and raise important questions for readers to consider. Randy Sparks, Tulane University Weaving together a court transcript from 1876 and Abina's story before the trial within a broader context of gender, colonialism, and world history, the book shares historical evidence as well as interpretation to present a powerful tool for teaching history and teaching about history. --The American Historical Association Abina and the Important Men is a tremendous step forward for the world-history community. --Journal of World History This is an important book that takes history into the public domain in a very accessible form. --Journal of African History Getz and Clarke have produced a text of historiographical and pedagogical significance. They illustrate with elegance and conviction the importance and potential of forging new interdisciplinary approaches. --Journal of Women's History Although ultimately unsuccessful in her lawsuit, the intrepid character of Abina shines through in every panel, incarnating a very different kind of colonized African woman, one that threatens to replace the historian's standard for the representative with the novelist's ideal for the exceptional. By the end, Abina voices one of the conceits of the entire project: not to exert a retrospective and largely empty expression of sympathy for those wounded in the traumatic past, but to allow their stories to be heard. --Biography Abina and the Important Men emphasizes the agency of ordinary individuals and the processes by which obscure voices are silenced in historical records. Getz and Clarke's auto-criticism actually bolsters confidence in their interpretations, while providing a most instructive example of how historians recapture the past. --Choice The second edition of Abina's story presents a powerful human struggle paired with an engaging, honest example of historical inquiry in the form of questions and debates. It is accessible for students and provocative for readers at all levels. --Laura J. Mitchell, University of California, Irvine The juxtaposition of multiple historical accounts from graphic history (a secondary source) to the court case transcript (a primary source) enables multiple classroom conversations about historical presentation. The graphic history concludes with a twenty-first century historian (Dr. Getz) discovering Abina's court case. The delightful inclusion of the researcher as a key 'character' in a textbook helps stress a key pedagogical point: it often takes new research interests to recover 'lost' lives, such as Abina's. Such emphasis makes the book an ideal text for introductory level history students. It is also one that will be of interest to students thinking ahead to their own careers using history degrees. Abina is a work that has something for many students.> -- Andrea Felber Seligman, City College of New York, in World History Connected Author InformationTrevor R. Getz is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. Liz Clarke is a professional illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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