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Africans : the history of a continent
- Title
- Africans : the history of a continent / John Iliffe.
- Author
- Iliffe, John
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 402 pages : maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that has produced the Arab Spring."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- African studies series ; 137
- Uniform Title
- African studies series ; 137.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "First edition first published 1995"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-380) and index.
- Contents
- The frontiersmen of mankind -- The emergence of food-producing communities -- The impact of metals -- Christianity and Islam -- Colonising society in western Africa -- Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- Colonial invasion -- Colonial society and African nationalism -- Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994 -- Independent Africa, 1956-1995 -- Recovery?
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1101
- ISBN
- 9781107198326
- 1107198321
- 9781316648124
- 1316648125
- LCCN
- 2017005645
- OCLC
- 973199805
- Author
- Iliffe, John, author.
- Title
- Africans : the history of a continent / John Iliffe.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African studies series ; 137African studies series ; 137.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-380) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1101