SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Brennan, James (2012) Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. (New African Histories)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, eds. (2007) Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Book Chapters

Brennan, James (2010) 'Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-1964.' In: Lee, Christopher J., (ed.), Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, pp. 173-195. (Ohio RIS Global Series)

Brennan, James (2007) 'Between segregation and gentrification: Africans, Indians, and the struggle for housing in Dar es Salaam, 1920-1950.' In: Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, (eds.), Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa, pp. 118-135.

Brennan, James and Burton, Andrew (2007) 'The emerging metropolis: a short history of Dar es Salaam, circa 1862-2005.' In: Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, (eds.), Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa, pp. 13-75.

Brennan, James (2005) 'The Short History of Political Opposition and Multi-Party Democracy in Tanganyika, 1958-1964.' In: Maddox, Gregory and Giblin, James Leonard, (eds.), In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 250-276.

Journal Article

Brennan, James (2011) 'Politics and Business in the Indian Newspapers of Colonial Tanganyika.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 81 (1). pp. 42-67.

Brennan, James (2008) 'Lowering the Sultan's Flag: Sovereignty and Decolonization in Coastal Kenya.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50 (4). pp. 831-861.

Brennan, James (2008) 'Destroying Mumiani: Cause, Context, and Violence in Late Colonial Dar es Salaam.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2 (1). p. 95.

Brennan, James (2006) 'Blood Enemies: Exploitation and Urban Citizenship in the Nationalist Political Thought of Tanzania, 1958-1975.' The Journal of African History, 47 (3). pp. 1-25.

Brennan, James (2006) 'Realizing Civilization through Patrilineal Descent: The Intellectual Making of an African Racial Nationalism in Tanzania, 1920-1950.' Social Identities, 12 (4). pp. 405-423.

Brennan, James (2006) 'Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1925-1973.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (2). pp. 221-246.

Brennan, James and Barnes, Cedric (2006) 'Political Genealogy, Race and Territory in Eastern Africa.' Social Identities, 12 (4). pp. 401-404.

Brennan, James (2005) 'Democratizing Cinema and Censorship in Tanzania, 1920-1980.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, 38 (3). pp. 481-511.

Brennan, James (2002) 'Revisiting Nationalism in Tanganyika.' Afrika Spectrum, 37 (3). pp. 367-371.

Brennan, James (1999) 'South Asian Nationalism in an East African Context: The Case of Tanganyika, 1914-1954.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 19 (2). pp. 24-39.