Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139054591
Content:
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
Note:
Introduction
,
Egypt and the Nile Valley
,
Ethiopia and the Horn
,
The Maghrib
,
The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa
,
Freed slave colonies in West Africa
,
West Africa in the anti-slave trade era
,
The forest and the savanna of Central Africa
,
East Africa: the expansion of commerce
,
The Nguni outburst
,
Colonial South Africa and its frontiers
,
Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790-1870
,
Africans overseas, 1790-1870
,
Changing European attitudes to Africa
In:
5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521207010
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521207010
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Cambridge history of Africa ; 5: From c.1790 to c.1870 Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976 ISBN 0521207010
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521207010
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521207010
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