Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and locations
- Sketch maps
- 1 Prologue: survey and agenda
- 2 Statecraft: external intrusion and local dominion
- 3 Ferment: conversion and revolution in Buganda
- 4 Upcountry: might-have-beens and the Buganda/Uganda outcome
- 5 Warbands: new military formations and ground level imperialism
- 6 Paramountcy: Toro, Busoga and the new overlords
- 7 Defeat: Kabalega's resistance, Mwanga's revolt and the Sudanese mutiny
- 8 Succession: Nkore and the war of Igumira's eye
- 9 Dénouement: aggregations and rulerships
- 10 Government: colonial settlements and the Buganda model
- 11 Capstone: honour, awe and imperialism
- 12 Round up and review
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and locations
- Sketch maps
- 1 Prologue: survey and agenda
- 2 Statecraft: external intrusion and local dominion
- 3 Ferment: conversion and revolution in Buganda
- 4 Upcountry: might-have-beens and the Buganda/Uganda outcome
- 5 Warbands: new military formations and ground level imperialism
- 6 Paramountcy: Toro, Busoga and the new overlords
- 7 Defeat: Kabalega's resistance, Mwanga's revolt and the Sudanese mutiny
- 8 Succession: Nkore and the war of Igumira's eye
- 9 Dénouement: aggregations and rulerships
- 10 Government: colonial settlements and the Buganda model
- 11 Capstone: honour, awe and imperialism
- 12 Round up and review
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Many moons ago I published a number of items on the history of Uganda and East Africa from the late nineteenth to around the mid twentieth century. Fortuitously my paths then took me for quite a while into working on the immediate pre-independence history of India. In association with that and several other related ventures, including the early years of the British Documents on the End of Empire project, I have also written more extensively on ‘the end of empire’. Having done so, I began to ask questions about ‘the beginning of empire’. That in due course took me back to the Uganda story and to this book.
This in turn has brought back memories of many friends for whom one from each of the areas with which this book is concerned must stand for the rest – Abu Mayanja (Buganda), Asavia Wandira (Busoga), Kosea Shalita (Ankole), John Kaboha (Toro) and Sarah Nyendwoha (Bunyoro) – and memories too of those who were slaughtered in the dreadful Amin–Obote years: Basil Bataringaya, Michael Kagwa, Henry Nkutu, James Aryada, Frank Kalimuzo and so many others.
I have warm memories too of sustained interaction with that cluster of westerners variously associated with the then East African Institute of Social Research: Audrey Richards, Andrew Cohen, Tom Fallers, David Apter, Cran Pratt, John Beattie and Tommy Gee; and then of the venerable elders: Ham Mukasa, Serwano Kolubya, Paulo Kavuma, L. Kamugungunu, H. B. Thomas, Sir John Gray and Sir Keith Hancock.
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- Fabrication of EmpireThe British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890–1902, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009