Africa and the World An Introduction to the History of Sub-Saharan Africa from Antiquity to 1840

by Gann, Lewis H.; Duignan, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780761815204
• ISBN10: 0761815201
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-19
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

First published in 1972, Africa and the World places the African past within the wider context of world events, while providing a wealth of geographical and ethnographic information about the continent. The book specifically focuses on the pre-colonial and early colonial history of sub-Saharan Africa. Designed for those interested in the impact of Europe on the non-Western world, the volume provides an account of the major economic and social factors that have shaped African history. Information from studies in anthropology, archaeology, history, and art are included as well. Africa and the World is an essential and accessible resource for those interested in world history or African studies.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I. THE GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA
Introduction	3	(10)
Africa's Relief Map and Political Boundaries	13	(18)
Climate and Vegetation	31	(18)
PART II. THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA
Introduction	49	(7)
The Languages of Africa	56	(10)
Traditional Methods of Subsistence	66	(8)
Lives and Livelihoods	74	(30)
PART III. THE PREHISTORY OF AFRICA
Problems of African Historiography	104	(8)
From Hominids to Stone Age Man	112	(9)
Stone Age Hunters	121	(14)
PART IV. AFRICA IN ANCIENT TIMES
The Emergence of Agricultural Civilizations	135	(12)
Cultural Syncretism in North and East Africa	147	(10)
West Africa and the Savannah	157	(10)
The Great Migrations	167	(18)
PART V. ISLAMIC AND INDIGENOUS EMPIRES: AFRICA'S MIDDLE AGES
Cross and Crescent in Northeastern Africa	185	(17)
Some Early West and Central African Empires	202	(29)
East and Northeast Africa to the End of the Fifteenth Century	231	(16)
Africa by the End of the Fifteenth Century	247	(16)
PART VI. AFRICA AND THE PORTUGUESE IMPACT: 1418 to 1600
Frist Steps in Exploration: 1418-1482	263	(10)
Congo, Cape, and Calicut: 1482-1515	273	(5)
The Portuguese in East Africa	278	(14)
The Portuguese in West Africa	292	(13)
PART VII. SLAVES, SETTLERS, AND THE GUNPOWDER FRONTIER
The Emergence of the Northern Sea Powers in the Seventeenth Century	305	(11)
The Development of the Transatlantic Slave Trade	316	(16)
The Effects of the Slave Trade	332	(25)
PART VIII. THE NEW COURSE
Abolitionism and its Aftermath	357	(20)
The Emergent AFRO-European Societies on the West Coast	377	(11)
South and South Central Africa	388	(13)
The Frontier Moves Inland	401	(20)
PART IX. MUSLIM AND AFRO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATIONS
The Muslim Impact	421	(21)
The Civlizations of Africa: A Review	442	(15)
PART X. THE NEW WESTERN CHALLENGE
The White Man's Quest For Knowledge in Africa	457	(16)
African Intellectual Responses to the Western Challenge	473	(10)
Africa at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: A Summing Up and An Epilogue	483	(14)
Bibliography	497	(14)
Index	511