upper volta history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

1.

Political Leadership in Africa: Post-Independence Generational Conflict in Upper Volta, Senegal, Niger, Dahomey, and the Central African Republic

Book by Victor T. Le Vine; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1967

Subjects:

Africa, French-Speaking West--Politics And Government--1960-, Central African Republic--Politics And Government, Elite (Social Sciences)--Africa, French-Speaking West

Collections: Entire Library

...Mali , and Upper Volta, was the first...Though the Niger, Upper Voltan, and Ivory...of recent African history; that is, to political...proscription. In Upper Volta, the Union Democratique...the UPS". 2. Upper Volta Unlike Senegal...
2.

The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi, Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe

Book by Meyer Fortes; Oxford University Press, 1945

Subjects:

Kinship, Tallensi (African People)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the tribes inhabiting the basin of the Volta rivers, from approximately 9 30 to I4...living between Ouagadougou in the French Upper Ivory Coast and Salaga in the Gold Coast...respect of the tribes of the central Volta region. General Characteristics of...
3.

The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi: The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe

Book by Meyer Fortes; 1949

Subjects:

Kinship, Tallensi (African People)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe by MEYER FORTES READER IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN...Mole-Dagbane-speaking peoples that occupy the basin of the Volta rivers in the French Ivory Coast and the Northern Territories...
4.

You and Your Congress

Book by Volta Torrey; W. Morrow, 1944

Subjects:

Politics, Practical, United States--Congress

Collections: Entire Library

...MATERIALS COPYRIGHT - 1944 BY VOLTA TORREY PRINTED IN THE UNITED...fact, might almost be called a history of our most recent effort to...voting age. In Michigan, the upper house rejected the idea by...was answered early in American history. If a man should be required...
5.

Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa

Book by Pierre Englebert; Westview Press, 1996

Subjects:

Burkina Faso--Politics And Government, National State--History--20th Century, Nationalism--Burkina Faso--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...AND COLONIAL HISTORY 9...First Colony of Upper Volta and Its Partition...The partition of Upper Volta, 1933-1947 26...of independent Upper Volta and its political...than precolonial history. In other words...

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

1.

Judicial Decisions

Journal article by Monroe Leigh; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 81, 1987

Subjects:

International Relations--Periodicals

Collections: Entire Library

...confirmation of the arbitral award as an affirmative defense in the pending lawsuit. According to the court, the legislative history of the FSIA and existing precedent cautioned against a broad application of the implicit waiver exception to sovereign immunity...
2.

Ideology, Regionalism, Self-Interest and Tradition: An Investigation into Contemporary Politics in Northern Ghana

Journal article by Bob Kelly, R.B. Bening; Africa, Vol. 77, 2007

Subjects:

Ghana--History, Ghana--Political aspects, Ideology--Analysis, Ideology--History, Ideology--Political aspects, Political ideologies--Analysis, Political ideologies--History, Regionalism--Analysis, Regionalism--History, Regionalism--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...its colonial history, its relative...Brong-Ahafo and Volta regions of Ghana...1960 a separate Upper Region was carved...was then French Upper Volta and settled in...the case of the Upper West Region...Journal of African History 14 (1). Wilks...
3.

The Spirit of Competition: Wak in Burkina Faso

Journal article by Patrick Royer; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002

Subjects:

Competition (Psychology), Occultism, Sports--Competitions

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...modernity. The history of modern football...nation (called Upper Volta until 1984...Dioulasso. For a history of football in...independence of Upper Volta. (13) Evans...Empire: culture and history in the Volta-Bani anti-colonial...
4.

Northern Gothic: Witches, Ghosts and Werewolves in the Savanna Hinterland of the Gold Coast, 1900s-1950s

Journal article by John Parker; Africa, Vol. 76, 2006

Subjects:

Ghana--Myths and legends, Ghana--Social aspects, Ghost stories--Evaluation, Supernatural--Myths and legends, Witchcraft--Myths and legends

Collections: Entire Library

...Coast and what would become French Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). In a detailed...Gur-speaking peoples of the middle Volta savanna suggests that it could be...ethnographic surveys of the peoples of Upper Volta and of the Bonduku region of northern...
5.

Lineage Organisation of the Tallensi Compound: The Social Logic of Domestic Space in Northern Ghana

Journal article by Nick Gabrilopoulos, Charles Mather, Caesar Roland Apentiik; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002

Subjects:

Architecture--Social aspects, Dwellings--Social aspects, Ghana--Social aspects, Housing--Social aspects, Social structure

Collections: Entire Library

...developmental cycle of the compound is the history of its establishment, growth, possible...options for courtyard placement. As the history of remodelling episodes for the compounds...African Spaces: designs for living in Upper Volta. New York: Africana. Bourdieu...

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

1.

Letter from Ouagadougou

Magazine article by William F.S. Miles; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Winter 2006

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...French intellectuals. If there is anything left of our own history and culture, its thanks to us, not to you." (Privately, a Burkinabe...looking to the North. We dont pay attention to our own culture or history. Thats the French system we have inherited. The English-speaking...
2.

Proposed UN Force for Lebanon Rejected in Security Council

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 21, March 1984

Subjects:

Armistices--Lebanon, Lebanon--Military aspects, United Nations--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...serious and tragic situation. It was a bitter disappointment "for all those peoples who, at the most dire moments of their history", looked towards effective assistance and help from the Council in overcoming the crises confronting them. Lebanon appealed...
3.

Security Council Demands South Africa Withdraw Its Forces from Angola

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 21, February 1984

Subjects:

Angola--Relations with South Africa, Armed forces in foreign countries, South African--Angola, South Africa--Relations with Angola, South West Africa People's Organization--Foreign relations, United Nations. Security Council--Resolutions, United Nations--Relations with South Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...strict implementation of its resolutions and decision. Upper Volta hoped that a clear decision and an unambiguous resolve...itself and on its relations with the world around it. History and Africans would not forgive the crimes being committed...
4.

The Man Who Ran Francafrique

Magazine article by Kaye Whiteman; The National Interest, Fall 1997

Subjects:

Foccart, Jacques--Political activity, France--Officials and employees, Politicians--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...French policy in Africa (by now increasingly vocal in France itself) this looked like "back to square Foccart",(7) the tide of history was moving on and Frances system in Africa was increasingly looking as if it were coming undone. The psychological turning...
5.

Crisis in Africa

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 21, March 1984

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, Agriculture--Africa, Droughts--Africa, Economic policy--International aspects, Famines--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Zambia and Zimbabwe...the first time in its history, the World Bank has made...Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta and Yemen. The General...Some go beyond Mali, to Upper Volta or Niger. Twelve black...

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-21

Top

1.

Menaces of the Kremlin Hard Man; Putin: "Stalin Was a Patriot Who Made the Odd Mistake"

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 4, 2008

Subjects:

Putin, Vladimir

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...popularised the dismissive description of theold Soviet Union as "Upper Volta with nuclear weapons" in the 1980s when UpperVolta dissolved...outstanding book.. Michael Burleighs Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism is publishedthis month. .
2.

Taking the Mikhail

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 1, 2005

Subjects:

Gorbachev, Mikhail, Television programs--Television program reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his own career and supposed achievements than to the history of communism. The one really diverting moment in his...of the poorest African countries, calling the old USSR Upper Volta with rockets. Die-hard Stalinists mounted a coup against...

Top

1.

Burkina Faso

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ghana to form the Volta; and in the northeast...45 provinces. History Early History...Soudan (then called Upper Senegal-Niger and...protectorate as Upper Volta. In 1932, it was...convenience. In 1947, Upper Volta was reestablished...
2.

Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso); also newly independent...and R. Oliver, ed., The Cambridge History of Africa (8 vol., 1975 85); A...UNESCO staff, The UNESCO General History of Africa (8 vol., 1988); T. Pakenham...
3.

Dance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...illustrating events in tribal history, legend, or mythology...the hands, arms, and upper parts of the body used...dances, such as the volta, precursor of the waltz...1942); C. Sachs, World History of the Dance (tr. 1937...1971); G. Vuillier, A History of Dancing from the Earliest...
4.

Brazil

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...great steel center of Volta Redonda , is heavily...legislature consisting of an upper Federal Senate and a...the Workers party. History Early History There is evidence...popular margin in Brazilian history, but his autocratic...

Top

Search the Library:

Collection(s):

Your search for: upper AND volta AND history

Found 2,147 results:

Books: 2,034

Journal Articles: 86

Magazine Articles: 21

Newspaper Articles: 2

Encyclopedia Articles: 4

Books on: upper volta history

2,034 results - MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Journal Articles on: upper volta history

86 results - MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Magazine Articles on: upper volta history

21 results - MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-21

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-21

Newspaper Articles on: upper volta history

2 results

Encyclopedia Articles on: upper volta history

4 results