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A history of West Africa / Toyin Falola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falola, Toyin, author.
- Series:
- Routledge global Africa textbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa, West--History.
- Africa, West.
- Africa, West--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 512 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Toyin Falola, Ph.D. is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of many distinguished awards, including sixteen honorary titles.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Writing West African History
- Geography, Landscape, and Composition
- Early history, state formation, and societies
- Evolutions and Revolutions
- Societies and Cultures in the Iron Age
- The Trans-Saharan Trade in West Africa
- States and Empires
- Domestic Economies
- Traditional Religions
- West Africa in the era of Atlantic economies and the globalization up till the nineteenth century
- Islam in West Africa
- Christianity in West Africa
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- Economy and Society: External Commerce
- Transformations and Revolutions in the Nineteenth Century
- The Nineteenth Century Jihads in West Africa
- The colonial era
- Colonial Rule and Its Impact
- West Africa and the World Wars (1914-1919) and (1940-1945)
- Nationalism and Independence
- The Road to Independence in West Africa
- The postcolonial era
- Postcolonial Politics
- Economies and Development
- Postcolonial Cultures
- Cultural Changes and Popular Cultures
- Religions and Religious Changes
- Contemporary West African Identities
- West Africa and the Wider World
- Trajectories and Projections on the Future of West Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 02, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Falola, Toyin. History of West Africa
- ISBN:
- 9781003198260
- 1003198260
- 9781003800262
- 1003800262
- 9781003801665
- 1003801668
- Publisher Number:
- 99995322052
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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