Africans : the history of a continent /

Iliffe, John,

Africans : the history of a continent / John Iliffe. - Third edition. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 - xiii, 402p.: Maps 25 cm. - African studies . - African studies series. .

"First edition first published 1995."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The frontiersmen of mankind -- The emergence of food-producing communities -- The impact of metals -- Christianity and Islam -- Colonising society in western Africa -- Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- Colonial invasion -- Colonial society and African nationalism -- Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994 -- Independent Africa, 1956-95 -- Recovery?.

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Africa--History.

DT20 / ILI 2017

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