Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810875807
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The A to Z of Pre-Colonial Africa seeks to familiarize the reader with pre-colonial Africa, the Africa that began with the migrations of the Bantu from their homeland in 500 B.C. and ended with European control in the 19th century, revealing the culture, events, achievement an...
The A to Z of Pre-colonial Africa
Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810875807
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The A to Z of Pre-Colonial Africa seeks to familiarize the reader with pre-colonial Africa, the Africa that began with the migrations of the Bantu from their homeland in 500 B.C. and ended with European control in the 19th century, revealing the culture, events, achievement an...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810875807
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The A to Z of Pre-Colonial Africa seeks to familiarize the reader with pre-colonial Africa, the Africa that began with the migrations of the Bantu from their homeland in 500 B.C. and ended with European control in the 19th century, revealing the culture, events, achievement an...
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa
Author: Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher: Altamira Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
An excellent introduction to Africanist archaeology for undergraduate students and general readers. Part one provides context: the presentation of environmental information, research histories, and background to the technologies, languages, and lifeways of sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the encyclopedia carries the narrative from the physical development of humanity through the adaptive stages of stone-using foragers, food producers, and complex societies, to the residues of historically recorded times and the investigation of identifiable sites in the historical record. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Altamira Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
An excellent introduction to Africanist archaeology for undergraduate students and general readers. Part one provides context: the presentation of environmental information, research histories, and background to the technologies, languages, and lifeways of sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the encyclopedia carries the narrative from the physical development of humanity through the adaptive stages of stone-using foragers, food producers, and complex societies, to the residues of historically recorded times and the investigation of identifiable sites in the historical record. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
West Africa before the Colonial Era
Author: Basil Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317882652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317882652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Precolonial Black Africa
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613747454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613747454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Pre-Colonial African Trade: Essays on Trade in Central and Eastern Africa Before 1900
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford U.P.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford U.P.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
East Africa
Author: Robert M. Maxon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"[The author] revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda."--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"[The author] revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda."--
Modes of Production in Africa
Author: Donald Crummey
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
What form does social inequality take without classes? How does the ecology of an area, in particular the Zaire basin, interact with social organization? What forms of production existed in different areas? What were the effects of mercantile capitalism on tribal production? These questions and more are tackled with a view to increasing our understanding of industrial development in precolonial Africa.
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
What form does social inequality take without classes? How does the ecology of an area, in particular the Zaire basin, interact with social organization? What forms of production existed in different areas? What were the effects of mercantile capitalism on tribal production? These questions and more are tackled with a view to increasing our understanding of industrial development in precolonial Africa.
Indigenous African Institutions
Author: George Ayittey
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904744003X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904744003X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy.
A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Shaping the African Savannah
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.