Themes in West Africa's History

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Edited by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: August 2017
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9781782049777

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History

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There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. This comprehensive collection brings together leading scholars on key themes from West Africa's prehistory to the present. It discusses various disciplinary approaches to West African history, provides overviews of the literature on major topics, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research.

Part one provides perspectives on West Africa's history from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two provides longue duree perspectives on environment, society, agency and historical change. Part three examines how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. At the end of each chapter is a short list of recommended reading.

EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG is Professor of History at Harvard University

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

List of Maps & Figures
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements & Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

PART I - Paths to a West African Past
pp 9-10

1 - The Holocene Prehistory of West Africa 10,000-1000 BP
pp 11-32

2 - Ecology & Culture in West Africa
pp 33-51

3 - Linguistics & History in West Africa
pp 52-72

4 - Oral Tradition & Perceptions of History from the Manding Peoples of West Africa
pp 73-96

PART II - Perspectives on Environment, Society, Agency & Historical Change
pp 97-98

5 - Slavery & Slave Trade in West Africa 1450-1930
pp 99-117

6 - Class, Caste & Social Inequality in West African History
pp 118-140

7 - Religious Interactions in Pre-Twentieth Century West Africa
pp 141-162

8 - Poverty in Pre-Colonial & Colonial West Africa Perception, Causes & Alleviation
pp 163-185

9 - Disease in West African History
pp 186-207

10 - Urbanization in Colonial & Post-Colonial West Africa
pp 208-224

PART III - Understanding Contemporary West Africa through Religion & Political Economy
pp 225-226

11 - Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & Structural Adjustment An Episode in West African Economic History
pp 227-264

12 - Ethnicity, Conflict & the State in Contemporary West Africa
pp 265-285

13 - Pentecostalism, Islam & Culture New Religious Movements in West Africa
pp 286-312

Index
pp 313-323

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