The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 4, From c.1600 to c.1790 / edited by Richard Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Richard, 1929-2005, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--History--To 1884.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 738 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Summary:

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Africa were a period of transition, with the trade in slaves and firearms on the Atlantic coast laying some of the foundations for European colonialism. But for most of the continent, external forces were still of marginal significance. African initiative remained supreme and produced a rich variety of political, social and intellectual innovations. In eight regional chapters the contributors to this volume, all established experts in their field, bring together for the first time these developments as they affected the whole of Africa. A concluding chapter surveys Africa in Europe and the Americas during this period.

Contents:

Introduction / Richard Gray

Egypt, the Funj and Darfur / P.M. Holt

The central Sahara and Sudan / H.J. Fisher

North-West Africa: from the Maghrib to the fringes of the forest / Nehemia Levtzion

The Guinea coast / Walter Rodney

Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi / David Birmingham

Southern Africa and Madagascar / Shula Marks and Richard Gray

Eastern Africa / Edward A. Alpers and Christopher Ehret

Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / M. Abir

Africa in Europe and the Americas / Walter Rodney.

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ISBN:

9781139054584 (ebook)

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