Midlands State University Library

Africans : the history of a continent

Iliffe, John

Africans : the history of a continent John Ilife - Third - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017 - 402 pages : map 25 cm - African studies ; 137 .

"First edition first published 1995."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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, 1956-95 -- Recovery?

9781107198326 9780521682978 (pbk)


Politics and government


Africa--History

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