Africans - John Iliffe

Africans

The History of a Continent

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Buch | Hardcover
388 Seiten
2007 | 2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86438-1 (ISBN)
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This is a general history of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic. It combines a broad picture of Africa's history with more detailed analysis of recent developments in a manner that other accounts of the continent do not attempt.
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.

John Iliffe is Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and 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.

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 change, 1918–50; 11. Independent Africa; 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa; 13. In the time of AIDS.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.8.2007
Reihe/Serie African Studies
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 720 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-521-86438-0 / 0521864380
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86438-1 / 9780521864381
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