Research Catalog

Title

History of Africa / Kevin Shillington.

Author

Shillington, Kevin.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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Description

v, 447 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

Africa > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-440) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Early prehistory of Africa -- Ch. 2. Later prehistory: the development and spread of farming and pastoralism -- Ch. 3. The impact of iron in northeast and west Africa -- Ch. 4. The Early Iron Age and Bantu migrations -- Ch. 5. North and northeastern Africa to 1000 AD -- Ch. 6. Trans-Saharan trade and the kingdom of Ancient Ghana -- Ch. 7. Islam and the Sudanic states of west Africa -- Ch. 8. Eastern Africa to the sixteenth century -- Ch. 9. Trading states of the east African coast to the sixteenth century -- Ch. 10. Later Iron Age states and societies of central and southern Africa to 1600 AD -- Ch. 11. North and northeast Africa to the eighteenth century -- Ch. 12. The Atlantic slave trade, sixteen to eighteenth century -- Ch. 13. West African states and societies to the eighteenth century -- Ch. 14. Central and eastern Africa to the eighteenth century -- Ch. 15. Southern Africa to the eighteenth century --
• Ch. 16. West Africa in the nineteenth century and the ending of the slave trade -- Ch. 17. Central and east Africa in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 18. Pre-industrial southern Africa in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 19. North and northeast Africa in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 20. Prelude to empire in Tropical Africa -- Ch. 21. The European 'Scramble', colonial conquest and African resistance in east, north-central and west Africa -- Ch. 22. Industrialisation, colonial conquest and African resistance in south-central and southern Africa -- Ch. 23. Consolidation of empire: the early period of colonial rule -- Ch. 24. Africa between the wars: the high tide of colonial rule -- Ch. 25. The Second World War and Africa -- Ch. 26. The winning of independence (1) -- Ch. 27. The winning of independence (2) -- Ch. 28. Africa since independence (1) -- Ch. 29. Africa since independence (2).

ISBN

0312125984 :

OCLC

ocm32659797

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Columbia University Libraries