Africans: The History of a ContinentCambridge University Press, 13 ago 2007 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. |
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The frontiersmen of mankind | |
The emergence of foodproducing communities | |
The impact of metals | |
Christianity and Islam | |
Colonising society in western Africa | |
Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa | |
Regional diversity in the nineteenth century | |
Colonial invasion | |
Colonial change 19181950 | |
Independent Africa 19501980 | |
Industrialisation and race in South Africa 18861994 | |
In the time of AIDS | |
Notes | |
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Términos y frases comunes
Afrikaner agricultural ancient Angola areas Asante Atlantic slave trade Bantu became Berber British Cambridge Cape capital cattle central chief chiefdoms chiefly Christian Church coastal Congo created cultivators culture decline demographic disease dominated East eastern economic Egypt Egyptian eighteenth century elite epidemic equatorial especially Ethiopia European expanded exports famine forest French Fulbe Ghana Gold Coast groups Hausa Hutu Igbo important independence indigenous Islamic Kenya Khoikhoi king kingdom Kongo labour Lake land later London major military millennium missionaries modern Muslim nationalist Niger Nigeria nineteenth century North northern numbers organisation Oxford party pastoralists peasants percent perhaps political polygyny population growth Portuguese probably regime region resistance rulers rural Rwanda Sahara savanna Senegal settlement slave trade slavery social society South Africa southern Africa southwards stateless sub-Saharan Sudan survived Tanzania took towns traditions tropical Tutsi Uganda urban Valley villages vols West Africa West African western Africa women Yoruba Zimbabwe
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