African History - A Very Short Introduction
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
توضیحات
by: John Parker & Richard Rathbone This book is a very short introduction to a very big topic. In fact, it is a very short introduction to two very big topics. On the one hand, it is about a place and its people: Africa. On the other, it is about the past of that place, as it has been envisaged by Africans and written about by historians. The sheer scale of both place and past is colossal. Africa: an entire continent, in terms of language and culture the world’s most diverse, stretching from the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope and today comprising over 50 separate nations. The cradle of mankind, where humans first evolved and from where they fanned out to settle the earth, Africa also possesses a recoverable history stretching back five millennia to the earliest of the world’s ancient civilizations, that of pharaonic Egypt. List of illustrations ix List of maps xi 1 The idea of Africa 1 2 Africans: diversity and unity 25 3 Africa’s past: historical sources 48 4 Africa in the world 70 5 Colonialism in Africa 91 6 Imagining the future, rebuilding the past 114 7 Memory and forgetting, past and present 135 References 151 Further reading 155 Index 161 حق تکثیر: کتاب در حوزه عمومی اینترنت انتشار یافته است
