A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Volume II: K-Z

558 Pages·2022·14.248 MB·English

by  D.R. Woolf, Kathryn M Brammall, Greg Bak

A Global Encyclopedia ofHistorical Writing
GARLANDREFERENCELIBRARYOFTHEHUMANITIES(VOL. 1809)
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A Global Encyclopedia of
Historical Writing
Volume II
K-Z
Editor
D.R. WOolf
Managing Editor
Kathryn M Brammall
EditorialAssistant
GregBak
Advisory Editors
PeterBurke
John Flint
Georg G. Iggers
DonaldR. Kelley
P] Levy
D.L. McMullen
PeterNovick
Karen Offen
AnthonyReid
Kenneth Sacks
Judith PZinsser
GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC.
A member oftheTaylor & Francis Group
New York &London, 1998
Copyright© 1998D.R.Woolf
Allrightsreserved
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Aglobalencyclopediaofhistoricalwriting / editor,D.R.Woolf;
managingeditor,KathrynM. Brammall;editorialassistant, GregBak
;advisoryeditors,PeterBurke... [etal.].
v. cm. - (Garlandreferencelibraryofthehumanities ; vol.
1809)
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN0-8153-1514-7(v. 1:alk. paper)
1.Historiography. 2.Historians. 1.Woolf,D.R. (DanielR.)
II. Series.
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Contents
Volume I
ix Acknowledgments
xi IntroductionandEditorialConventions
xix Contributors
xxxiv AbouttheEditor
1 TheEncyclopedia
Volume II
499 TheEncyclopedia
993 GeneralIndex
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Volutne II
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Kagwa, SirApolo, (1869-1927) wasthewayinwhichKagwa'swritingsdemonstrated
Baganda "protonationalist," prime minister that someAfrican societies had highly complex
(katikkiro), andwriter. Kagwawasbornin 1869 historical memories, hitherto orallytransmitted,
into aBagandaaristocraticfamily, andhadsome whichcouldform abasisof"oraldocuments" for
Western education as provided bythe missions. thereconstructionofprecolonialhistoryinAfrica.
Initiatedearlyintopolitics,Kagwaroserapidlyin ApollosO. Nwauwa
the royal service ofKing Mutesa, becoming the
katikkiroin1889.Between1897and1914Kagwa Texts
ruledBugandaasaregentandnegotiatedtheAgree The CustomsoftheBaganda. Ed. May
mentof1900with Britain, whichguaranteedfor MandelbaumEdel;trans.ErnestB.Kalibala.
Bugandasomedegreeofautonomyundercolonial NewYork:ColumbiaUniversityPress, 1934.
rule. Hewas knighted in 1902. Besides Kagwa's TheKingsofBuganda.Ed.andtrans.M.S.M.
profound butcontroversialpolitical accomplish Kiwanuka. Nairobi:EastAfricanPublishing
ments,hefoundtimetoengageinhistoricalwrit House, 1971.
ing.AlthoughhewroteinLuganda(thelanguage
ofthe Baganda people), his works provided the References
firstattemptatethnohistoryofapeopletobedone Mukasa, Ham. SirApoloKagwaDiscoversBritain.
byanyEastAfrican.Kagwa'seffortsresultedinthe Ed.Taban10Liyong.London: Heinemann,
publication ofmanybooks, most ofwhich have 1975.
been translatedintoEnglish. Outoftheseworks, Wrigley,C.C. "ApoloKagwa: Katikkiroof
tworemainverysignificant: TheKingsofBuganda Buganda."In Leadershipin 19thCentury
(1901) and The Customs o/theBaganda(1909). Africa:Essaysfrom Tarikh, ed. ObaroIkime.
While TheKingsofBugandaattemptedtodemon London: Longman, 1974, 116-127.
strate that theprecolonialpoliticalsystem ofthe
Kingdom ofBugandahadalreadyexhibitedout
standingcapacityfor good and effective govern Kaizuka Shigeki (1904-1987)
ment, TheCustomsstressedtheneedtopreservethe JapanesehistorianofChina.BorninTokyo,Kaizuka
continuityaswellastheself-respectoftheBaganda graduatedfrom Kyoto Imperial Universitybefore
peopleinaneraofrapidandhumiliatingchange joiningitsaffiliatedInstituteofOrientalCulture.He
occasionedbyEuropeanimperialism.Basedmainly servedasthedirectoroftheinstitute,renamedasthe
ontherecordoftheoraltraditionsofthekingdom ResearchInstituteofHumanisticSciences,between
andparticularlyeventsofhisowntime,itwasclear 1949and 1955,retiringfrom itin 1968.Kaizuka's
thatthepurposeoftheseworkswastolegitimizethe mainareaofinterestwastheancientShang,andhe
extraordinarydegree ofautonomyclaimedbythe wasamongthefirsttousesystematicallytheinscrip
BagandaintheAgreementof1900withtheBrit tionsonoraclebonesandbronzevesselsforthestudy
ish.Kagwa'swritings,bytheirclarityandelegance, ofitshistof)T.Kaizukapublished,inadditiontoanwn
helpedtoestablishLugandaasalanguageinwhich berofbooksonancientChinesehistoryandculture,
aneducatedelitecouldexpresscomplexideas.More severaleditedcollectionsoforacleboneinscriptions.
widelysignificantforhistoricalstudiesinthefuture John Lee
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