The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 5, From c. 1790 to c. 1870 / edited by John E. Flint.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flint, John E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--History--To 1884.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 617 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Summary:

The period covered in this volume is one which begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest. But except for white conquests in Algeria and South Africa, and colonies of free Blacks on the west coast, the theme is that of African independence, initiative and adaptation in the last phase of its pre-colonial history. Under greater external pressures than ever before, from European trade, exploration, missionary and political activity, African history in this period moved with greater momentum and larger scale than in past ages, with rapid changes in economic and political life. In general the approach in this volume is through chapters focusing on regions of Africa, each written by an established authority in his field. Concluding chapters survey the activities of Europeans in Africa, and those of Africans and their descendants overseas.

Contents:

Introduction / John E. Flint

Egypt and the Nile Valley / P.M. Holt

Ethiopia and the Horn / Sven Rubenson

The Maghrib / Douglas Johnson

The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa / M. Hiskett

Freed slave colonies in West Africa / Christopher Fyfe

West Africa in the anti-slave trade era / J.F. Ade Ajayi and B.O. Oloruntimehinde Ajayi and B.O. Ọlọruntimẹhin

The forest and the savanna of Central Africa / David Birmingham

East Africa: the expansion of commerce / A.C. Unomah and J.B. Webster

The Nguni outburst / J.D. Omer-Cooper

Colonial South Africa and its frontiers / J.D. Omer-Cooper

Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790-1870 / Hubert Deschamps and Yvonne Brettt

Africans overseas, 1790-1870 / John E. Flint and I. Geiss

Changing European attitudes to Africa / Robin Hallett.

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ISBN:

9781139054591 (ebook)

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