History of Africa / Kevin Shillington.
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Macmillan Education ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Edition: Rev. 2nd edDescription: xiv, 474 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0333599578 (pbk.)
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- DT20 .S47 2005
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| Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Judith Thomas Library General Stacks | BKS | DT 20 .S47 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | AUA000182 | Available | AUA000182 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-468) and index.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of maps
Preface
Chapter 1: Early prehistory of Africa>
Chapter 2: Later prehistory: farming and pastoralism in tropical Africa and Ancient Egypt>
Chapter 3: The impact of iron in north and west Africa>
Chapter 4: The early Iron Age in central, eastern and South Africa>
Chapter 5: North and north-eastern Africa to 1000 CE>
Chapter 6: Trans-Saharan trade and the kingdom of Ancient Ghana>
Chapter 7: Islam and the Sudanic states of west Africa>
Chapter 8: Eastern Africa to the sixteenth century>
Chapter 9: Trading towns of the east African coast to the sixteenth century>
Chapter 10: Later Iron Age states and societies of central and southern Africa to 1600>
Chapter 11: North and north-east Africa to the eighteenth century>
Chapter 12: The Atlantic slave trade, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries>
Chapter 13: West African states and societies, to the eighteenth century>
Chapter 14: Central and east Africa to the eighteenth century>
Chapter 15: Southern Africa to the eighteenth century>
Chapter 16: West Africa in the nineteenth century ans the ending of the slave trade>
Chapter 17: Central and east Africa in the nineteenth century>
Chapter 18: Pre-industrial southern Africa in the nineteenth century>
Chapter 19: North and north-east Africa in the nineteenth century>
Chapter 20: Prelude to empire in tropical empire>
Chapter 21: The European 'Scramble', colonial conquest and African resistance in east, north-central and west Africa>
Chapter 22: Industrialisation, colonial conquest and African resistance in South-central and southern Africa>
Chapter 23: Consolidation of empire: the early period of colonial rule>
Chapter 24: Africa between the wars: the high tide of colonial rule>
Chapter 25: The Second World War and Africa>
Chapter 26: The winning of independence (1)>
Chapter 27: The winning of independence (2)>
Chapter 28: Africa since independence (1)>
Chapter 29: Africa since independence (2)>
Chapter 30: Africa and the New Millennium>
Suggestions for further reading
Index