| Description |
1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations, graphs, tables, maps |
| Contents |
1. People and their environment : Africa's climate and demography -- 2. Political and warlike Islam : the Maghreb and West Africa before the colonial conquest -- 3. Political and merchant Islam : East Africa -- 4. Animism's resistance, openness and introversion : central-western Africa -- 5. The meeting of cultures : Southern Africa -- 6. Colonial intervention -- 7. The century's innovations |
| Summary |
Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers. It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Africa -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001561
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baker, Mary, translator
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| ISBN |
9781315706658 |
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1315706652 |
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