Tag: Chiefs

Free Download The Chiefs of Council Bluffs: Five Leaders of the Missouri Valley Tribes
by Gail Geo Holmes
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1540231658 | 130 Pages | ePUB | 2.14 MB

Free Download Evanson N. Wamagatta, "Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya: The Untold Story of Senior Chief Waruhiu Wa Kung’u, 1890-1952"
English | ISBN: 1498521479 | 2016 | 206 pages | EPUB | 711 KB
Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung’u is one of colonial Kenya’s most controversial chiefs. His name has gone down in history as a traitor who was assassinated because he sold his country to the British colonizers. This book is the untold story of the controversial life of Senior Chief Waruhiu who served the colonial government for thirty years. He believed his white superiors’ authority was God-given and to disobey them was tantamount to disobeying God himself. That was why he was considered loyal, obedient, dependable, responsible, efficient, and a tower of strength.

Free Download Robert A. Dodgshon, "From Chiefs to Landlords: Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands"
English | ISBN: 0748610340 | | 320 pages | PDF | 29 MB
This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and argues that we should consider the problems of traditional Highland society, economy and environment together. Exploring how the different aspects of the clan system – chiefs and kinsmen, landlords and tenants, farming systems, production strategies and marketing – changed between the 16th-18th centuries, it shows how the character and ideology of clans and chiefdoms are inextricably part of the twin problems of socio-political control and food production. Shifting the emphasis away from depictions of Highland society as lawless and disorganised, this is a welcome antidote to the many romanticised views of pre-Clearance society. Prize Winner! Honorable Mention – Frank Watson Scottish History Prize 1999