A History of African Societies to 1870Cambridge University Press, 13 apr 1997 - 578 pagina's This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge History of Africa. Reflecting several emphases in recent scholarship, it focusses on the changing modes of production, on gender relations and on ecology, laying particular stress on viewing 'history from below'. A distinctive theme is to be found in its analyses of cognitive history. The work falls into three sections. The first comprises a historiographic analysis, and covers the period from the dawn of prehistory to the end of the Early Iron Age. The second and third sections are, for the most part, organised on regional lines; the second section ends in the sixteenth century; the third carries the story on to 1870. A second volume, now in preparation, will cover the period from 1870 to 1995. This book attempts a more rounded view of African history than most of the other textbooks on the subject addressed to a (largely) undergraduate level student. Earlier histories have tended to ignore some of the current foci in the scholarly literature on Africa, generally not reflected in the textbooks: these include discussions of topical issues like ecology and gender. Isichei's book is also more radical. |
Inhoudsopgave
Perimeters 37 | 3 |
Africa and the historians | 19 |
the precursors | 25 |
Environment language and art c 10000 c 500 BCE | 40 |
Producing more food c 10000 c 500 BCE | 56 |
Copper and iron c 600 BCE to c 1000 CE | 69 |
production power and gender | 78 |
Regional histories to the sixteenth century | 101 |
from the savanna to the sea | 239 |
Regional histories to c 1870 | 261 |
Northern Africa | 263 |
The Western Sudan in a time of jihad | 291 |
The Eastern and Central Sudan | 313 |
The Atlantic slave trade | 323 |
West Africa to 1800 | 341 |
West Africa 1800 to 1870 | 360 |
Central Africa | 103 |
Eastern Africa | 120 |
Africa south of the Limpopo | 141 |
Northern Africa to the seventh century CE | 151 |
Northern Africa from the seventh century CE | 172 |
The NorthEast | 196 |
The Western Sudan | 213 |
Central Africa | 389 |
Southern Africa | 409 |
East and East Central Africa | 431 |
Notes | 456 |
Some suggestions for further reading | 559 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Africa London African History Akan Almoravids ancient Arabic Asante Atlantic slave trade Atlantic trade Bantu became Benin Berber Borno Buganda Bunyoro called Cambridge cattle Central Africa Christian clan coast colonial copper cult culture Cushitic desert Dyula early East eastern economic Egypt Egyptian eighteenth century empire Ethiopia ethnic European exported famine Fulbe Futa Futa Toro Ghana gold Hausa historians History in Africa Ibid Igbo important iron Isichei Islam ivory jihad Journal of African king kingdom Kingdom of Kongo Kongo land language later linguistic lived Maasai Maghrib Mamluks merchants Mfecane migration modern Morocco Muslim myth Niger Nigeria Nile Nilotic nineteenth century northern Nuer oral tradition original pastoralism pastoralists political population Portuguese Quoted reflect ritual river role rulers Sahara savanna scholars settlement seventeenth century slavery social societies southern Sudan survived Swahili symbolic Tanzania Vansina villages West Africa Western Sudan women Xhosa Yoruba
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