Table of Contents

Developing a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equitorial Africa
Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s
"The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality
The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality
Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940
The Impositin of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940
Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers

Reviews

Fascinating study. . . suitable for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty.
*CHOICE*

Besides offering a solid overview of the political and cultural history of southern Gabon, an area almost entirely ignored by academic scholars, Gray's study offers rich insights for historians and researchers examining the impact of early colonial rule and the formation of ethnic categories in Africa in the last two centuries. . . . A compelling study.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES No. 2-3, 2002*

Gray's book is an important intervention in the growing scholarly literature on colonialism. Its lasting contribution is to invite scholars to think more carefully about space as a key terrain on which the colonial power worked.
*JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY*