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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Christopher J. Gray. Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon ca. 1850–1940. (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 275. $65.00.

Christopher J. Gray's posthumously published book not only offers readers an illuminating, copiously researched analysis of southern Gabon's history, but it also provides a model for understanding the ambiguous transformations that colonized societies in Africa and elsewhere experienced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gray builds on Robert David Sack's notion of "territoriality, " a process in which "an individual or group … [attempts to] affect, influence, or control people, phenomena and relationships by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area" (p. 20; Sack, Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History [1986], p. 19). Careful to avoid the evolutionary assumptions embedded in simplistic interpretations of Sack, Gray deftly applies this theoretical framework to southern Gabon's dynamic history. His central premise is that European colonization entailed a confrontation of two different cognitive maps that resulted in the destruction of an age-old equatorial African political tradition while advancing the ambiguous and incomplete triumph of French territoriality. . . .

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