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Place Names in Africa

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
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    Chapter 2 Sarah’s Globe and the (Un-)naming of Mobile Space
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    Chapter 3 Bagamoyo: Inquiry into an East African Place Name
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    Chapter 4 ‘The Trees Are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes in Lusaka and Zanzibar
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    Chapter 5 Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos: Place Names and Built Forms
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    Chapter 6 From ‘Avenue de France’ to ‘Boulevard Hassan II’: Toponymic Inscription and the Construction of Nationhood in Fes, Morocco
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    Chapter 7 The Colonial Toponymic Model in the Capital Cities of French West Africa
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    Chapter 8 A Toponymy of Segregation: The ‘Neutral Zones’ of Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa
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    Chapter 9 Generic Terminology in Colonial Urban Contexts: Garden Cities Between Dakar and Tel Aviv
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    Chapter 10 Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto
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    Chapter 11 South African Identity as Reflected by its Toponymic Tapestry
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    Chapter 12 M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I Presume? Transforming Local Memory Through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo
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    Chapter 13 Formal and Informal Toponymic Inscriptions in Maputo: Towards Socio-Linguistics and Anthropology of Street Naming
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    Chapter 14 Glocal Naming and Shaming: Toponymic (Inter-)National Relations on Lagos and New York Streets
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    Chapter 15 Afterword
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Title
Place Names in Africa
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32485-2
ISBNs
978-3-31-932484-5, 978-3-31-932485-2
Authors

Lagae, Johan, Boonen, Sofie, Dibwe, Donatien Dia Mwembu

Editors

Liora Bigon

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Unknown 20 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 30%
Student > Master 5 25%
Other 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Librarian 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 3 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 6 30%
Social Sciences 5 25%
Environmental Science 2 10%
Linguistics 1 5%
Computer Science 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 4 20%