(Ebook) A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present (2nd ed. 2012)[Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World] by Richard J. Reid ISBN 9780470658987, 0470658983

(Ebook) A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present (2nd ed. 2012)[Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World] by Richard J. Reid ISBN 9780470658987, 0470658983

[check out the updated expanded 3rd. ed. 2019, available as epub-file in z-library!]Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries.Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challengesPlaces a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounterIncludes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone AfricaOffers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya