Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802488
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author : David Deutschmann
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Why did more than 300,000 Cubans -- of all ages and professions, men and women, black and white -- volunteer to help defend Angola from repeated South African invasions? Was the presence of these Cuban forces in Angola an obstacle to Nambia's independence and peace in the region? Were they a threat to U.S. security as Washington often claimed? With contributions from Columbian writer Gabriel Garica Marquez, as well as Fidel Castro, Jorge Risquet, and Raul Casto, this book helps to provide a background to the events in southern Africa. It includes details of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in which South Africa was decisively defeated and which Fidal Castro has described as a turning point in the history of Africa. -- taken from back cover
Author : James R. Brennan
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0821444174
Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race—both translatable as taifa in Swahili—were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city. Using deeply researched archival and oral evidence, Taifa transforms our understanding of urban history and shows how concerns about access to credit and housing became intertwined with changing conceptions of nation and nationhood. Taifa gives equal attention to both Indians and Africans; in doing so, it demonstrates the significance of political and economic connections between coastal East Africa and India during the era of British colonialism, and illustrates how the project of racial nationalism largely severed these connections by the 1970s.
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Bedford Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Now fully revised and updated, this classic text offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of Africa from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa through the millennia of the ancient world to the centuries of medieval and modern Africa. The clear and simple language and the wealth of carefully chosen maps and photos combine to make an essential and accessible text.
Author : Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9781569024973
Author : Ellen Hillbom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030140083
‘This is a desperately needed book. It not only surveys the field of African economic history at the level of undergraduate students, but provides several fresh perspectives, drawing on insights from the latest research on the evolution of African societies and their economic prosperity. This valuable source of teaching material will be the premier text on African economic history for at least the next decade.’ —Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, South Africa This upper level textbook offers a historical understanding of sub-Saharan Africa. By looking at the economic history of the African region from before the arrival of European territorial control all the way through to Africa’s integration in the current era of globalisation, readers can understand the development paths for African countries today. Organisation of production, social structures, trade, and governance are key factors in the discussion about African success stories and failures. Suitable reading for upper level undergraduates, MSc and postgraduate students, in addition to policy makers and development practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of Africa from an economic and social perspective. Hillbom and Green also provide a starting point for the study of African economic history for those who would like to continue their own research in this area.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 3110678012
This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria "This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Author : István Tarrósy
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 364311060X
During the first 25 years of independence, the African state was largely driven from within by the ambition to establish political order in a world where national sovereignty over issues of development was not in question. The theme of this book is that more is at stake today than in the past.
Author : Chima Korieh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621310129
"African History offers instructors and students a rich selection of primary source materials and excellent essays on a wide range of themes. These readings can either be used alone or along with supplementary materials in the teaching and learning of African history or African Studies from prehistory to the present. Put together by devoted African history teachers with a combined classroom experience of over twenty-four years (spanning three continents), the book provides a bumper harvest of topics of immense interest to students at all levels. This text contains materials not often found in regular textbooks; they have been classroom-tested, and have been found to not only generate lively discussions among students, but also inculcate in them a deep-seated curiosity to learn more about Africa. This, together with the multidisciplinary nature of the essays, makes this book a source material no serious instructor, student, or general reader can afford to ignore. Chima J. Korieh specializes in African History, Gender Studies, and Comparative Slavery. A member of the Marquette University History faculty since 2007, Dr. Korieh's research and teaching focuses on social and economic change in colonial Africa. Prior to joining Marquette, he was associate professor of African history at Rowan University in New Jersey. Dr. Korieh earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto in 2003. He is the author of The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria (University of Calgary Press, 2010). Dr. Korieh was a British Academy fellow at Oxford University, UK in 2008. Raphael Chijioke Njoku is a Professor of African History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He received his doctorate in African history from Dalhousie University Canada and another doctorate in African politics from Vrije University, Belgium. His research specialty is African history, and African politics. He is the author and co-editor of five books and several scholarly articles in international journals and edited volumes. His most recent awards include: University of Louisville Distinguished Research Award, and Victor Olurunsola Endowed Research Award. He is the founding Editor of Notes and Records: an International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies. "
Author : Christopher Ehret
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780852554753
This book gives serious play to ancient history right across the African continent and it ties these eras into the currents of wider world history. Chris Ehret has skilfully woven archaeology and linguistics into the historical narrative to provide a text from the deep past until 1800. North America: University Press of Virginia
