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Brantley, Cynthia Papers

Collection Number: D-514

Collection contains research materials for Brantley's books, The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800-1920 and Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial Africa, as well as materials from the year Brantley spent in Nigeria (1966-1967). Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Finding Aid

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California

Inclusive Dates

1966-2002.

Extent

17 linear feet

Subject

Ethnic Studies

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