TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Richard J.
TI  - A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present 
T2  - Concise history of the modern world
SN  - 9781119381921 (pbk.)
AV  - DT20 .R45 2019
U1  - 960.3 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Colonization
N1  - Includes index; Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past --; Part I. Polity, society, and economy: ingenuity and violence in the nineteenth century --; Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa --; Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in Eastern Africa --; Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in Southern Africa --; Part II. Africa and Islam: revival and reform in the nineteenth century --; Revival and reaction: North African Islam --; Jihad: revolutions in Western Africa --; The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in Eastern Africa --; Part III. Africa and Europe: commerce, conflict and co-option, to c.1920 113 --; The compass and the cross --; "Whatever happens ...": towards the scramble --; Africans adapting: conquest and partition --; Part IV. Colonialisms --; "Pax colonia"? Empires of soil and service --; Hard times: protest, identity, and depression --; Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again) --; Part V. The dissolution of empire --; The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world --; Conceiving and producing nations --; Compromising conflict: routes to independence --; Part VI. Legacies, new beginnings, and unfinished business --; Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence --; Violence and the militarization of political culture --; Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa
ER  -