Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface to the second edition
- Africans
- 1 The frontiersmen of mankind
- 2 The emergence of food-producing communities
- 3 The impact of metals
- 4 Christianity and Islam
- 5 Colonising society in western Africa
- 6 Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa
- 7 The Atlantic slave trade
- 8 Regional diversity in the nineteenth century
- 9 Colonial invasion
- 10 Colonial change, 1918–1950
- 11 Independent Africa, 1950–1980
- 12 Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886–1994
- 13 In the time of AIDS
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index
- Books in the series
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface to the second edition
- Africans
- 1 The frontiersmen of mankind
- 2 The emergence of food-producing communities
- 3 The impact of metals
- 4 Christianity and Islam
- 5 Colonising society in western Africa
- 6 Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa
- 7 The Atlantic slave trade
- 8 Regional diversity in the nineteenth century
- 9 Colonial invasion
- 10 Colonial change, 1918–1950
- 11 Independent Africa, 1950–1980
- 12 Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886–1994
- 13 In the time of AIDS
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index
- Books in the series
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- AfricansThe History of a Continent, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007