This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.
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"...an impressive study-copiously illustrated with detailed maps...a valuable tool for teachers eager and willing to introduce their students to the premodern history of Africa. Africanist scholars will find much that is useful there. This is a book I will make my graduate students working in Africa own." Religious Studies Review
"Only a handful of other scholars can match the author's master of historiography and source materials available before the mid-1990s." Historian
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This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.
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This book takes the shotgun approach: wide range of topics, yet none are dealt with deeply. Still a good intro to the subject.
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If it is universally acknowledge that geography and climate shape and mould the course of history, it is a truism peculiarly self-evident in Africa, where humankind has had to contend with environmental conditions often harsh and always challenging. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specialised pastoralists, local wives, inland delta, war captives, desert fringes, woodland savanna Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Medieval Africa, Iron Age, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, East African, West Africa, Lake Chad, North Africa, Great Zimbabwe, White Nile, Eastern Nilotic, Rift Valley, Lake Victoria, Ibn Khaldun, Persian Gulf, Blue Nile, Imam Ahmad, Nilotic Sudan, Banu Hilal, Black Death, Christian Ethiopia, Mawlay Ahmad, Mwata Yamvo, Cape Town, Mawlay Isma'il New!
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If it is universally acknowledge that geography and climate shape and mould the course of history, it is a truism peculiarly self-evident in Africa, where humankind has had to contend with environmental conditions often harsh and always challenging. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specialised pastoralists, local wives, inland delta, war captives, desert fringes, woodland savanna Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Medieval Africa, Iron Age, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, East African, West Africa, Lake Chad, North Africa, Great Zimbabwe, White Nile, Eastern Nilotic, Rift Valley, Lake Victoria, Ibn Khaldun, Persian Gulf, Blue Nile, Imam Ahmad, Nilotic Sudan, Banu Hilal, Black Death, Christian Ethiopia, Mawlay Ahmad, Mwata Yamvo, Cape Town, Mawlay Isma'il New!
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- Beyond the Pale: Essays on the History of Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross on page 223, page 224, and Back Matter
- African History: From Earliest Times to Independence by Philip Curtin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Black Death in the Middle East by Michael W. Dols on page 20, and Back Matter
- Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty (African Studies) by Christopher Wrigley on page 142, and Back Matter
- A History of Zambia by Andrew Roberts on page 193, and Back Matter
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