A history of sub-Saharan Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Robert O., 1933-2008
Other Authors: Burns, James McDonald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The historical geography of Africa
  • Kingdoms on the Nile
  • The peoples of sub-Saharan Africa : society, culture, and language
  • Cows, crops, and iron
  • Northeast Africa in the age of Aksum
  • Empires of the plains
  • East Africa and the Indian Ocean world
  • The Lake Plateau of East Africa
  • Societies and states of the West African forest
  • Kingdoms and trade in Central Africa
  • The peoples and states of southern Africa
  • The arrival of Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Diseases and crops : old and new
  • Slavery in Africa
  • The Atlantic slave trade
  • The Asian slave trade
  • Upsetting the equilibrium
  • The European conquest of Africa
  • Southern Africa, 1486-1910
  • European colonial rule in Africa
  • The colonial legacy
  • Nationalism and the independence of colonial Africa
  • The Union of South Africa and the apartheid state
  • A decade of hope
  • Cold War Africa
  • Africa at the beginning of the twenty-first century.