Africans : The History of a Continent,9780521682978

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Africans : The History of a Continent

by John Iliffe

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780521682978

ISBN10:

0521682975

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/13/2007

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Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.

Author Biography

John Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College

List of maps	p. xi
Preface to the second edition	p. xiii
The frontiersmen of mankind	p. 1
The emergence of food-producing communities	p. 6
The impact of metals	p. 17
Christianity and Islam	p. 37
Colonising society in western Africa	p. 63
Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa	p. 100
The Atlantic slave trade	p. 131
Regional diversity in the nineteenth century	p. 164
Colonial invasion	p. 193
Colonial change, 1918-1950	p. 219
Independent Africa, 1950-1980	p. 251
Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994	p. 273
In the time of AIDS	p. 288
Notes	p. 317
Further reading	p. 329
Index	p. 345
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