(Ebook) History of Africa 4th Edition by Kevin Shillington ISBN 9781137504036 113750403X

(Ebook) History of Africa 4th Edition by Kevin Shillington ISBN 9781137504036 113750403X

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ISBN 10: 113750403X
ISBN 13: 9781137504036
Author: Kevin Shillington

(Ebook) History of Africa 4th Edition Table of contents:

SECTION 1: EARLY AND LATER PREHISTORY

1. Early prehistory of Africa

Human evolution

Homo sapiens, the hunter-gatherer

Further climate change, adaptation and the ancestry of African languages

2. Later prehistory: farming and pastoralism in tropical Africa and Ancient Egypt

Crop cultivation, domestication and the origins of farming

The impact of agriculture

The origins of farming and pastoralism in tropical Africa

Ancient Egypt and Nubia

SECTION 2: EARLY IRON AGE

3. The impact of iron in north and west Africa

The spread and impact of early metalworking

Origins and spread of ironworking

The Iron Age Kingdom of Meroe

The origins and rise of Aksum

Iron Age north Africa and early trans-Saharan trade

4. The Early Iron Age in central, eastern and southern Africa

Evidence for the spread of ironworking

Origins of the Early Iron Age in sub-equatorial Africa

The spread of the Early Iron Age

The development and organisation of Early Iron Age society

SECTION 3: RELIGION AND EMPIRE IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN AFRICA

5. North Africa to 1000 ce

Northern Africa in the Graeco-Roman period

Early Christianity in northern Africa

The Arab invasions: the Nile valley and the Maghrib

6. Trans-Saharan trade and the Kingdom of Ancient Ghana

Trans-Saharan trade

The Kingdom of Ancient Ghana

Other early west African states and societies

7. Islam and the Sudanic states of west Africa

The Almoravids

The Muslim states of north Africa, 1100–1500

The Empire of Mali

The decline of Mali

The origins and rise of Songhay

The Fulbe (or Fulani)

SECTION 4: RELIGION, TRADE & CHIEFTAINCY IN EASTERN, CENTRAL & SOUTHERN AFRICA

8. Eastern Africa to the sixteenth century

The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, 850–1550

Muslim penetration of Ethiopia and Somalia, 850–1550

Pastoralists and farmers of the east African interior

9. Later Iron Age states and societies of central and southern Africa to the sixteenth century

State formation north of the Zambezi

Cattle keeping and state formation south of the Zambezi

The origins and character of the Great Zimbabwe tradition

Cattle-keeping peoples south of the Limpopo

10. Trading towns of the east African coast to the sixteenth century

The origins of east African coastal trading society

The growth of Swahili trading towns

The Portuguese on the east African coast, 1498–1600

Madagascar

SECTION 5: WEST AFRICA IN THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE

11. The Atlantic slave trade, sixteenth to eighteenth century

Slavery in Africa before the Atlantic trade

The origins of European maritime trade with west Africa

The nature of the slave trade

Profit from the slave trade: the European dimension

12. West African states and societies, to the eighteenth century

The fall of the Songhay Empire

The Sultanate of Borno-Kanem

The Hausa city-states

Wolof kingdoms of Senegambia

Kingdoms of the forest: Ife and Benin

Oyo and Dahomey, savannah states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Kingdom of Asante

SECTION 6: STATE RENEWAL & FORMATION IN NORTH, EAST, CENTRAL & SOUTHERN AFRICA

13. North and northeast Africa to the eighteenth century

The ‘Arabisation’ of northern Africa

From Fatimid to Mamluk: Egypt before the Ottoman conquest

Egypt under Ottoman rule

States of the Maghrib, sixteenth to eighteenth century

Nubia and the Funj Sultanate

Oromo migrations and the kingdom of Ethiopia

14. Central and eastern Africa to the eighteenth century

The east African interior west of the Victoria Nyanza

The east African interior east of the Victoria Nyanza

Farmers, fishers and hunters of the Congo forest

West-central Africa in the era of the slave trade

Central African empires and the growth of trade

15. Southern Africa to the eighteenth century

Southern Africa before 1650

The early Cape Colony: white settlement and Khoesan resistance, 1650–1770

States and societies of the southern African interior, 1600–1800

SECTION 7: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BEFORE THE EUROPEAN ‘SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA’

16. West Africa in the nineteenth century

Islamic jihads in the western Sudan

17. The ending of the Atlantic slave trade

West African commerce in the nineteenth century

18. Christian missions, new states and precolonial ‘nationalism’

European Christian missionaries in precolonial Africa

Sierra Leone and Liberia

African Christians and precolonial nationalism

19. Central and east Africa in the nineteenth century

Western-central Africa in the nineteenth century

Kingdom of the floodplain

The development of long-distance trade in eastern-central Africa

Invasion from the south: the Ngoni

The east African slave trade

The trade in ivory and slaves in the interior of central Africa

Madagascar: the rise of the Merina Kingdom

20. Preindustrial southern Africa in the nineteenth century

State building and conflict, early nineteenth century

The British at the Cape

The Boer Trek and African resistance

Southern Africa in 1870

21. North and northeast Africa in the nineteenth century

The French in north Africa and Algerian resistance

Egypt and Sudan

The reunification of Ethiopia

SECTION 8: THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IMPERIALISM, LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

22. Colonial conquest and African resistance in east, north-central and west Africa

European ‘explorers’: the mapping of Africa as a prelude to empire

The ‘Scramble for Africa’

Conquest and resistance

23. Industrialisation, colonial conquest and African resistance in south-central and southern Africa

The southern African mineral revolution

The British ‘scramble’ for south-central Africa

Wars of conquest and resistance in Mozambique

Conquest and resistance in Namibia

The South African War, 1899–1902

SECTION 9: THE IMPACT AND NATURE OF COLONIAL RULE, 1890–1945

24. Consolidation of empire: the early period of colonial rule

Raw materials and markets

Peasant producers, railways and white settlement in British east Africa

Rebellion in the German colonies

Missionaries, Christianity and early expressions of ‘nationalism’

The First World War and Africa, 1914–18

25. Africa between the wars: the high tide of colonial rule

The economic impact of colonial rule

The nature and impact of colonial administration

The spread of Islam in tropical west Africa

Education: from precolonial tradition to colonial reality

African nationalism and protest movements in the interwar years

Segregation, nationalism and protest in South Africa

26. The Second World War and Africa

Fascism and the world at war

Fascist aggression and the Second World War in north and northeast Africa

The impact of the war on Africa and Africans

SECTION 10: THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIALISM

27. The winning of independence (1)

Colonial development strategies

The winning of independence in British West Africa

The winning of independence in French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa

The struggle for independence in the Maghrib

Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia

28. The winning of independence (2)

British East Africa

Independence in Belgian-ruled central Africa

Independence on the islands

29. The winning of independence (3)

Federation and independence in British Central Africa

The winning of independence in Portuguese-ruled Africa

The struggle for freedom in southern Africa

SECTION 11: AFRICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE

30. African responses to the colonial legacy

The political legacy

The economic legacy: underdevelopment and dependency

The early drive for economic development

The role of the military in African politics

The socialist alternative

31. The challenges and dilemmas of development: debt and international aid

Debt

Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)

The CFA franc zone

Globalisation

International aid

African international cooperation

32. Contemporary Africa

Democratic progress in the 1990s

Conflict and resolution

Health and environment

Political stability and contemporary Africa

Suggestions for further reading

Index

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