The civilizations of Africa : a history to 1800 / Christopher Ehret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehret, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Africa--History.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Summary:

Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history. Addressing the glaring lack of works concentrating on earlier African eras, Christopher Ehret's trailblazing book has been paired with histories of Africa since 1800 to build a full and well-rounded understanding of the roles of Africa's peoples in human history. Examining inventions and civilizations from 22, 000 BCE to 1800 CE, Ehret explores the wide range of social and cultural as well as technological and economic change in Africa, relating all these facets of African history to developments in the rest of the world. This updated edition incorporates new research, as well as an extensive new selection of color images.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introducing africa and its history

Africa in a Global Frame

Getting the Terms of Our Discourse Straight

Themes in History: What to Look for in Our Reading

Africa and Human Origins

2 Africa before the agricultural age, 22,000-9500 BCE

Africa and the World: From Gathering to Farming

Geography and Climate in African History

Afrasian Civilization

Nilo- Saharan Peoples and the Middle Nile Archaeological Tradition

Khoesan Civilization

The Batwa Tradition of Equatorial Africa

Summing Up the Period 22,000-9500 bce in Africa

3 Culture and technology in africa, 9500-3500 BCE

The Environments of Agricultural Invention

Agricultural Invention: Niger- Congo Peoples in West Africa

Inventing Agriculture: The Eastern Sahara, 8500-6000 BCE

The Aquatic Tradition of the Sahara, 8500-6000 BCE

Sudanic Civilization: The Intertwining of the Sudanic Agripastoral and the Aquatic Traditions

Inventing Agriculture: The Horn of Africa and the Northern Sahara, 9500-5000 BCE

Livelihood and Culture History in Africa, 6000-3500 bce

Africa 9500-3500 bce in the Context of World History

4 Diverging paths of history: africa, 3500-1000 BCE

Africa in Comparative Historical Perspective

The Spread of Agriculture into Central Africa

Cultivation and Herding Come to Eastern Africa

The Middle Frontier: Early Agriculture in the Upper Nile Basin

Sahara, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa, 3500-1000 BCE

New Ways of Life in Northeastern Africa

Production and Trade in West Africa

Lands of States and Towns: Nubia and Egypt

Copper and Iron in African History

Africa, 3500-1000 BCE: What Have We Learned?

5 An age of commerce, an age of iron: africa, 1000 BCE-300 CE

Africa in World History, 1000 BCE-300 CE.

Eastern Africa in Its Classical Age

Western Equatorial Africa: Social and Economic Repercussions of Agricultural Expansion

Commerce, Merchants, and States: Northeastern Africa

North Africa in the Carthaginian and Roman Eras

An African Development of Commerce: West Africa, 1000 BCE-300 CE

6 Southern, central, and eastern africa: the middle centuries, 300-1450

Africa and the World: Issues and Themes of the Age

Subsistence and Society in Southern Africa, 300-1450

Growth of Political Scale: The Southern Woodland Savannas and Equatorial Rainforest, 600-1450

Eastern Africa, 300-1450

Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa: Taking the Long View

7 Northeastern, west, and north africa: the middle centuries, 300-1450

Themes of Change

Northeastern Africa, 300-1450

West Africa, 300-1450

North Africa and the Sahara, 300-1450: Competing Legitimacies, Competing Hegemonies

Agriculture, Technology, and Culture: A Continental Overview, 300-1450

8 The early atlantic age, 1450-1640

Africa and the World Enter a New Historical Era

Western Africa, 1450-1640

Atlantic Commerce and the Coastal Hinterlands of Africa

Commerce, Religion, and Political Struggle in Northeastern Africa

Northern Africa and the Sahara

History in the Eastern and Central Sudan, 1450-1640

History in the African Interior, 1450-1640

9 Africa in the era of the atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800

The Middle Era of the Atlantic Age: Themes and Issues

West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade

Central Africa: The Expanding Impact of Atlantic Commerce

Southern Africa: New Pastoral and Trading Frontiers

Eastern Africa: States and Stateless Societies

Northeastern Africa: An Age of Political and Cultural Realignment

North Africa: The Decline of Ottoman Overrule

The Close of the Eighteenth Century: A New Era Begins.

Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813946030

0813946034

OCLC:

1263025581