The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 - Hardcover

Ehret, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813920841 ISBN 13: 9780813920849

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2002

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Book by Ehret Christopher

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"An authoritative and strikingly original overview of African history up to 1800, written at a level that will be accessible to entering college students." - Patrick Manning, Northeastern University, author of Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000 From the text: "Africa lies at the heart of human history. It is the continent from which the ancestors of every one of us, no matter who we are today, originally came. Its peoples participated integrally in the great transformations of world history.... Bigger than the United States, China, India, Australia, and Europe combined, the African continent presents us with a historical panorama of surpassing richness and diversity.

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With his focus on pre-colonial Africa, Christopher Ehret provides in this volume a complete overview of African history. He examines African inventions and civilizations from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE, from the northern tip of Tunisia to the Cape of Good Hope in the south. Organized by topic and era, it reveals the diversity of African history. It explores the wide range of social and cultural as well as technological and economic change in Africa, and it depicts African agricultural, social, political, cultural, technological and economic history in relation to developments in the rest of the world. This book could be fruitfully combined with histories of Africa since 1800 to build up a full and well-rounded understanding of the roles of Africa's people in human history.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813920841
• ISBN 13: 9780813920849
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480