Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Free Wage Labor African Diaspora -- Chapter 1: Surfboats -- Chapter 2: Freetown – A Catalyst for Diaspora -- Chapter 3: The Expansion of Kru Labor in the Royal Navy -- Chapter 4: Kru Labor in Expeditions and Military Campaigns -- Chapter 5: Kru Labor in the British Caribbean -- Chapter 6: Growth in Diaspora and Decline in the Homeland -- Conclusion: Kru Free Wage Laborers in Global History -- Appendix A: Muster Lists, 1819–20 -- Appendix B: Interviews -- Glossary of Kru Language Terms -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Creolization and (Krio)lization in the making of nineteenth-century Sierra Leone -- Islam, Christianity, and the state in colonial Freetown -- Trade, religion, and the colonial state -- The Krio diaspora in Nigeria -- Piety and praxis : religion in daily life -- Education and educational reform within the Muslim community -- Postscript…”
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“…Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone makes a significant contribution to knowledge on the country's capital, Freetown, by demonstrating the potential of transdisciplinary work in the city…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Place, Weather and Disease Control in (Post)Colonial Freetown -- 2. Colonial Mobilities and Infrastructures: The Production of (Anti)Blackness -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…European Explorers. The Founding of Freetown -- The Colonial Experience. The Beginnings of the Krio Diaspora. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Towards a Defi nition of Transnational as a Family Construct: A Historical and Micro Perspective -- Chapter 2 Luso-Creole Culture and Identity Compared -- Chapter 3 Freetown's Yoruba-Modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and Transethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration -- Part II Diasporic Entanglements -- Chapter 4. …”

“…Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mouser -- Lusocreole culture and identity compared : the cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka / Christoph Kohl -- Freetown's Yoruba-modelled secret societies as transnational and trans-ethnic mechanisms for social integration / Nathaniel King -- Contested transnational spaces : debating emigrants' citizenship and role in Guinean politics / Anita Schroven -- Identity beyond ID-- diaspora within the nation / Markus Rudolf -- The African "other" in the Cape Verde Islands : interaction, integration and the forging of an immigration policy / Pedro F. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Unbrandable People: Douglas Tompkins -- Unbranded Brands: Patta -- Emerging Markets -- Unbradable Places: Freetown, Kigali -- Unbranded Brands: Nokia -- Brands Doing Good -- Unbrandable Places: The Mars Bar, New York -- Unbrandable People: Roger Ballen - Unbranded Brands: Mojang/Minecraft -- New Methods of Research -- Words with the Shaman: Leroy Tulip -- Unbranded People: Haas & Hahn -- Unbranded Brands: NPR and PBS -- Unbrandable People: Beppe Grillo -- Unbrandable Places: Forte Prenestino, Rome -- An Unbrandable Moment: Trainspotting -- Unbrandable People: Annie Leonard -- No One Really Knows Anything -- Unbrandable People: Jennifer M. -- Words with the Shaman: Frank Sinatra Jr -- Ten Ways to Unbrandable -- The Last Word…”