讲座 | 理查德·里德：革命与分裂 Revolution & Partition：重思非洲的漫长十九世纪

Revolution and Partition:

Rethinking Africa’s

Long Nineteenth Century

革命与分裂

重思非洲的漫长十九世纪

主讲人 Speaker：

理查德·里德（Richard Reid）

讲座时间 Time：

2025年5月23日 17:00-19:00

May 23th, 2025, Friday

17:00-19:00 (Beijing Time)

讲座地点：

复旦大学光华楼西主楼2001会议室

Room 2001, Guanghua West Main Building, Fudan University

腾讯会议号

Online Tencent Meeting ID：

493 607 081

会议密码 Password：

647233

Richard Reid is Professor of African History in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. His work is concerned with the history of political culture, historical consciousness, warfare and militarism, and encompasses both the African continent as a whole as well as his area of primary research, East and Northeast Africa. He is the author of dozens of articles, and his many books include Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa: genealogies of conflict since c.1800 (Oxford University Press, 2011), Warfare in African History (Cambridge University Press, 2012), A History of Modern Uganda (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Shallow Graves: a memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea war (Hurst, 2020). A former editor of the Journal of African History, he has also written a textbook survey, A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (Wiley, revised 3rd edition, 2020), and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (Oxford University Press, 2013). Reid’s latest book, The African Revolution: a history of the long nineteenth century is now out with Princeton University Press in 2025.

主持人：孙遇洲 副教授

（复旦大学历史学系）

Chair: Jodie Yuzhou Sun

(Associate Professor in

Modern African and Global History,

Fudan University)

讲座简介

Based on the author’s recent book, The African Revolution: a history of the long nineteenth century (Princeton University Press, 2025), this presentation will explore the revolutionary ferment which characterised Africa’s long, and global, nineteenth century. This was an era of what can be termed creative volatility, in which new political and economic dynamics were underpinned by increasingly ambitious uses of violence. Moreover, this generated novel forms of liminality, characterised by innovation and agency as well as by coercion and victimhood. It is argued that the era of ‘The Scramble for Africa’ in the last decades of the nineteenth century cannot be understood without a deep understanding of the continent’s transformation in the decades preceding it. The partition of the continent and the imperial order which resulted were as much the culmination of African revolutionary dynamics as they were of European expansionism.