Africans - The History of a Continent

Informationen zum Autor John Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of St John's College. He is the author of several books on Africa including A Modern History of Tanganyika (Cambridge, 1979) and The African Poor: A History (Cambridge, 1988), which was awarded the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association of the United States. Klappentext An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations. Zusammenfassung Over twenty years this book has become the standard single-volume history of Africa for both students and general readers. Following the overarching theme of population changes! causes and consequences! it has been fully updated to incorporate developments and research findings for all periods to 2016. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the third edition; 1. The frontiersmen of mankind; 2. The emergence of food-producing communities; 3. The impact of metals; 4. Christianity and Islam; 5. Colonising society in Western Africa; 6. Colonising society in Eastern and Southern Africa; 7. The Atlantic slave trade; 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial invasion; 10. Colonial society and African nationalism; 11. Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994; 12. Independent Africa, 1956-95; 13. Recovery?

Product details

• Authors: John Iliffe, John (University of Cambridge) Iliffe, Iliffe John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107198326
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19832-6
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: African Studies; African Studies (Hardcover); African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, African History