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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen R. Smythe teaches African history, global economic development, and sustainability at Xavier University. She is author of Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkasi, Ufipa, 1880-1960. Klappentext Kathleen R. Smythe teaches African history, global economic development, and sustainability at Xavier University. She is author of Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkasi, Ufipa, 1880¿1960. Zusammenfassung Introducing readers to the wide variety of sources from which African history is constructed, the book's ten chapters cover human evolution, the domestication of plants and animals, climate change, social organization, the slave trade and colonization, development, and contemporary economics and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Why We Need African History Part 1. The Long Durée 1. Human Evolution and Becoming Human 2. Agriculture in History 3. Africans' Adaptions to Climate Change: Past and Present Part 2. Cultural Differentiation 4. Heterarchy and Hierarchy 5. Cultural Diffusion 6. Matriliny Part 3. Globalization 7. Colonialism and Development (with Heidi Frontani) 8. Africa's Development Assistance (with Heidi Frontani) 9. African Economics 10. Failed States? The Successful Somalia
