Search alternatives:
africa » african (Expand Search)
  1. 1
    by Reader, John
    Published 1999
    Table of Contents: “…Founding factors: Building a continent -- Transitions -- Missing links -- Origins and climate -- Humanity emerging: Real world -- Footsteps -- Cutting edge -- In the mind's eye -- Cool systems -- Out of Africa -- African options: On home ground -- Word of mouth -- Ancestral economies -- Human potential -- Climate and culture -- Beginnings of agriculture -- Renewable resources -- Pastoral scene -- Impact of iron -- African civilizations: Nile -- Periplus of the Erythraean Sea -- Aksum -- Cities without citadels -- Disease and affliction -- Successful harvests -- Implications of trade -- Outposts and inroads -- Merrie Africa -- Bananas and cattle -- Cattle and gold -- Foreign influences: "I speak of Africa and golden joys" -- Portuguese initiatives -- In search of Prester John -- Harnessed to Europe -- Nothing else to sell -- The Atlantic slave trade -- African slave traders -- Africa transformed -- Aftermath -- Climatic context -- Settlers: Settlers -- Black and white frontiers -- Zulu myths and reality -- Afrikaners -- Diamonds and gold -- Scramble: Imperial ambition -- African king -- Drawing the line -- Resistance -- Rebellion -- Invention of Africa -- First dance of freedom: Emergent elite -- Spoils of war -- First dance of freedom -- Dreams and nightmares.…”
    Book
  2. 2
    by Davidson, Basil, 1914-2010
    Published 1966
    Table of Contents: “…Old myths : new truths. Africa's place in history ; The peopling of a continent ; In the heart of Africa -- 2. …”
    Book
  3. 3
    by Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-
    Published 1996
    “…Africa History Study and teaching…”
    Book
  4. 4
    “…Africa History…”
    Book
  5. 5
    by Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…The time of the awakening -- Africa and the origin of humanity -- pt. 2. The age of literacy -- Africa and the beginning of civilization -- The rise of Kemet/Egypt -- The elements of early African civilization -- Governance and the political stability of Kemet -- pt. 3. …”
    Book
  6. 6
    by Bohannan, Paul, Curtin, Philip D.
    Published 1971
    Table of Contents: “…The myth and the fact ; The African continent ; The peoples df Africa ; Mapping African languages and subsistence areas -- Part II. …”
    Book
  7. 7
    “…Africa Historiography Periodicals…”
    Serial
  8. 8
    by Coombes, Annie E.
    Published 1994
    Table of Contents: “…'For God and For England': Missionary Contributions to an Image of Africa -- 9. National Unity and Racial and Ethnic Identities: The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 -- Epilogue: Inventing the 'Post-Colonial'.…”
    Book
  9. 9
    by Davenport, T. R. H.
    Published 2000
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  10. 10
    by Harding, Jeremy
    Published 1993
    Subjects: “…Insurgency -- Africa -- History -- 20th century…”
    Book
  11. 11
    by Collins, Robert O
    Published 1971
    “…Africa Colonization…”
    Book
  12. 12
    by Hargreaves, John D.
    Published 1988
    Table of Contents: “…Conditions of tranquillity in Black Africa -- Forces of change in the 1930s -- War and the African Empires, 1939-1945 -- The mobilization of African discontents, 1939-1947 -- Colonialism transformed, c. 1945-1949 -- Pressures for Independence, c. 1948-1953 -- Recalculations in the 1950s -- The end of the affair -- Retrospect.…”
    Book
  13. 13
    by Curtin, Philip D.
    Published 1964
    Subjects: “…British -- Africa, West -- History.…”
    Book
  14. 14
    by Keppel-Jones, Arthur
    Published 1968
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  15. 15
    by Hallett, Robin
    Published 1970
    “…Africa History To 1884. sh 85001558…”
    Book
  16. 16
  17. 17
    by Davidson, Basil, 1914-2010
    Published 1994
    “…Africa History 1884-1960. sh 85001563…”
    Book
  18. 18
    by Press, Robert M.
    Published 1999
    Subjects:
    Book
  19. 19
    by Hutchinson, Louise Daniel
    Published 1979
    Subjects: “…Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Exhibitions.…”
    Government Document Book
  20. 20
  21. 21
    by Cohen, Herman J.
    Published 2000
    Subjects:
    Book
  22. 22
    “…Africa Colonization…”
    Book
  23. 23
    by Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
    Published 1963
    Table of Contents: “…The African background -- The colonial imprint -- Colonial pattern of economics -- Society under colonialism -- The intellectual vanguard -- Freedom first -- Achieving our sovereignty -- Problems of government -- Bringing unity in Ghana -- Our Ghanan consititution -- The administrative instrument -- Reconstruction and development -- Towards economic independence -- Building socialism in Ghana -- Towards African unity -- Some attempts at unification -- Economic and political integration : Africa's need -- Neo-colonialism -- Africa in world affairs -- Examples of major unions of states -- Continental government for Africa.…”
    Book
  24. 24
    Book
  25. 25
    by Northrup, David, 1941-
    Published 2009
    “…Africa, Sub-Saharan Relations Europe.…”
    Book
  26. 26
  27. 27
    Published 1981
    Table of Contents: “…Sheriff -- East Africa before the seventh century / J.E.G. Sutton -- West Africa before the seventh century / B. …”
    Book
  28. 28
    Published 1963
    Table of Contents: “…The stone age of East Africa -- III. The peopling of the interior of East Africa by its modern inhabitants -- IV. …”
    Book
  29. 29
    “…Africa Colonization…”
    Book
  30. 30
    by Grant, Stan, 1963-
    Published 1973
    “…Africa Politics and government 1945-1960. sh 85001572…”
    Book
  31. 31
    by Fage, J. D.
    Published 1978
    Table of Contents: “…The rise of Islam and the Arab empire in North Africa ; The Muslim states and empires of North Africa ; The advance of Islam in West Africa -- Africa in the age of European expansion. …”
    Book
  32. 32
    Published 2003
    “…Africa, West History To 1884 Sources. sh 85001704…”
    Book
  33. 33
    by Sík, Endre, 1891-
    Published 1966
    “…Africa, Sub-Saharan History…”
    Book
  34. 34
    by Chrétien, Jean-Pierre
    Published 2003
    “…Africa, Eastern History. sh 85001601…”
    Book
  35. 35
    by Nugent, Paul, 1962-
    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…. -- African independence: poisoned chalice or cup of plenty? -- A profile of Africa at independence. -- The shape of things to come: irredentism, secessionism and the Pan-African ideal. -- Modernity and tradition, power and prestige: monarchs, chiefs and politicians, 1956-74. -- 'Ism schisms': African socialism and home-grown capitalism, 1960-85. -- Khaki fatigue: military rule in Africa, 1960-85. -- Second liberation: guerilla warfare, township revolt and the search for a new social order. -- Invasion of the acronyms: SAPs, AIDS and the NGO takeover. -- Democracy rediscovered: popular protest, elite mobilisation and the return of multipartyism. -- Millennial Africa: the national question revisited.…”
    Book
  36. 36
    by Italiaander, Rolf, 1913-1991
    Published 1961
    Table of Contents: “…New men in a new world -- Hassan II and Mohammed V of Morocco -- Ferhat Abbas of Algeria -- Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia -- Idris I of Libya -- Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt -- Ibrahim Abbud of the Sudan -- Haile Selassie of Ethiopia -- Tom Mboya of Kenya -- Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika -- From Sir Roy Welensky to Hastings Kamutzu Banda -- Hendrik Verwoerd of South Africa -- Michael Scott -- Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo -- Fulbert Youlou of the Republic of the Congo -- Ahmadou Ahidjo -- From Abubakar to Ahmadu -- Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland -- Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana -- Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast -- William V. …”
    Book
  37. 37
    Table of Contents: “…The land and peoples of West Africa / A.L. Mabogunje -- The prehistory of West Africa / Thurston Shaw -- Stateless societies in the history of West Africa / Robin Horton -- The early states of the Western Sudan to 1500 / Nehemia Levtzion -- The early states of the Central Sudan / H.F.C. …”
    Book
  38. 38
    Published 1965
    Table of Contents: “…Ancient Ghana and the customs of its inhabitants -- Ibn Battuta in the negrolands -- The founding of Timbuktu -- Timbuktu in 1526 -- The coming of Islam to Kano -- Kanem in the tenth century -- Bornu in 1823 -- The coming of brass-casting to Benin -- Funeral of a Yoruba king -- A Yoruba pantomime -- The eighteenth-century expansion of Dahomey, and the origin of the women's army -- The annual "king's customs" of Dahomey -- Reception of an English mission in Ashanti in 1817 -- Observations on African slavery -- The Christian kingdoms of the upper Nile -- Reception of a Portuguese Embassy at the Ethiopian Court in 1520 -- The city of Aksum in the sixteenth century -- Rites and customs of the Ethiopian crown -- An Ethiopian love feast -- Kabaka Juko I and Prince Kayemba of Buganda -- A naval battle on Lake Victoria in 1875 -- The village life of East Africa -- Portrait of the gentle King Rumanika of Karagwe -- The fattened princesses of Karagwe -- Heroic poetry of Ankole -- Dynastic poetry of Rwanda -- The court of the Christian kingdom of Congo in the sixteenth century -- The Jagas -- The officers of state of Lunda -- Social courtesies among the Marave -- Funeral of a Cheva chief -- The Monomotapa Empire in 1517 -- The kingdom of the Kiteve in the late sixteenth century -- The journey of the castaways of the St. …”
    Book
  39. 39
    by Reynolds, Jonathan T.
    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…PART 1: AFRICA UP TO 1500 C.E.: Africa and human origins -- Physical context of African history: geography and environment -- North and Northeast Africa in early world history -- Migrations, technology, and culture in ancient Africa -- Africa and the early Christian world -- North and West Africa and the spread of Islam -- East Africa and the advent of Islam -- PART 2: AFRICA SINCE 1500 C.E.: Slavery and the creation of the Atlantic world -- West and West-Central Africa: 1500-1800 -- North Africa and the Soudan [i.e. …”
    Book
  40. 40
    Published 1992
    Table of Contents: “…Anna Martin Hinderer (Nigeria, 1853) -- Mary Kingsley (West Africa, 1893 and 1895) -- Mary Hall (Southern and Central Africa, 1904) -- Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt (West Africa, 1911) -- Anne Louise (Hay) Dundas (Tanganyika, 1921) -- Joan Rosita Torr Forbes (East Africa, 1917) -- H.H. …”
    Book
  41. 41
    “…Africa History 19th century. sh 85001561…”
    Book
  42. 42
    by Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927
    Published 1911
    “…Africa History. sh 85001556…”
    Book
  43. 43
    by Hatch, John Charles
    Published 1969
    “…Africa History. sh 85001556…”
    Book
  44. 44
    Published 1968
    “…Africa History 20th century. sh 86000611…”
    Book
  45. 45
    Published 1968
    “…Africa History. sh 85001556…”
    Book
  46. 46
    by Berque, Jacques
    Published 1967
    “…Africa, North History 1882- sh 85001642…”
    Book
  47. 47
    Published 1975
    “…Africa History. sh 85001556…”
    Book
  48. 48
    by Davidson, Basil, 1914-2010
    Published 1981
    Subjects: “…Guerrillas -- Africa -- History.…”
    Book
  49. 49
    by Hargreaves, John D.
    Published 1963
    Subjects: “…Europeans -- Africa, West.…”
    Government Document Book
  50. 50
    by Ingham, Kenneth
    Published 1962
    “…Africa, East History…”
    Book
  51. 51
    by Fage, J. D
    Published 1962
    “…Africa, West History…”
    Book
  52. 52
    Published 2007
    Subjects: “…Leadership -- Africa.…”
    Book
  53. 53
    by Crowder, Michael, 1934-1988
    Published 1968
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation of West Africa -- The British occupation of Nigeria -- The British occupation of the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia -- Administration in theory and practice -- The administration of French West Africa -- British administration in West Africa -- Indirect rule in practice -- Togo, the model colony -- West Africa and the 1914-18 war -- Colonial development and commercial expoitation -- Lebanese and monopolists -- Government and economy in the inter-war years -- Migration and the new towns -- The economic impact of colonial rule -- Islam and Christianity -- Western education -- The colonial European -- The origins of protest -- French West African politics, 1919-39 -- Politics in British West Africa, 1920-39 -- Prelude to de-colonisation : the Second World War.…”
    Book
  54. 54
    by Africa, Thomas W.
    Published 1965
    Book
  55. 55
    by Vedder, Heinrich
    Published 1966
    Table of Contents: “…The end of early South West Africa -- Moses Witbooi's death -- Paul Visser's death -- Jan Jonker's death -- Maharero's death.…”
    Book
  56. 56
    Table of Contents: “…v. 1. South Africa to 1870.…”
    Book
  57. 57
    Table of Contents: “…-- The truth about Piet Retief -- The softest job in Africa -- The Xhosa -- The Kaffir wars -- The National suicide of the Xhosa -- The God that died -- Apartheid.…”
    Book
  58. 58
    by Thompson, Leonard Monteath
    Published 1990
    Table of Contents: “…The Africans -- The White invaders: the cape colony, 1652-1870 -- African wars and white invaders: southeast Africa, 1770-1870 -- Diamonds, gold and British imperialism, 1870-1910 -- The segregation era, 1910-1948 -- The apartheid era, 1948-1978.…”
    Book
  59. 59
    by Barber, James
    Published 1999
    Table of Contents: “…Clash of British imperialism and Afrikaner nationalism -- White union and Black reaction -- World War II and Apartheid -- Wind of change -- Renewed Black challenge -- Forging the new South Africa.…”
    Book
  60. 60
    by Thompson, Leonard Monteath
    Published 2001
    Table of Contents: “…The Africans -- The white invaders: the Cape Colony, 1652-1870 -- African wars and white invaders: southeast Africa, 1770-1870 -- Diamonds, gold, and British imperialism, 1870-1910 -- The segregation era, 1910-1948 -- The apartheid era, 1948-1978 -- Apartheid in crisis, 1978-1989 -- The political transition, 1989-1994 -- The new South Africa, 1994-2000 -- Appendix: statistics.…”
    Book
  61. 61
    by Drysdale, Alasdair
    Published 1985
    Book
  62. 62
    Published 1990
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  63. 63
    by Fage, J. D.
    Published 1969
    Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Beginnings -- The great states of the western and central Sudan -- Wider consequences of the growth of empire and trade in the Sudan -- The beginnings of European enterprise -- European competition for trade in the Guinea coastlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The slave trade and economic change -- The political development of lower Guinea from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- West Africa and the campaign against the slave trade -- The British West African settlements, 1808-74 -- The Islamic revolution, and political developments in the interior, c. 1770-c. 1890 -- The renewal of French activity, and the European scramble for colonies -- The regaining of independence.…”
    Government Document Book
  64. 64
    Table of Contents: “…Sovereignty and diplomacy in post-independence Africa -- Socialism as a mode of international protest : the case of Tanzania / Ali A. …”
    Book
  65. 65
    Published 1969
    Table of Contents: “…Gann and Peter Duignan -- African society at the time of the scramble / Elizabeth Colson -- Trade and authority in West Africa from 1850 to 1880 / Colin W. Newbury -- Reflections on imperialism and the scramble for Africa / L.H. …”
    Book
  66. 66
    Subjects:
    Book
  67. 67
    Published 1969
    Table of Contents: “…The forgotten factor in southern African history / Leonard Thompson -- Early iron-using peoples of southern Africa / D.W. Phillipson -- The Inter Iron Age in South Africa / Brian Fagan -- Changes in social structure Africa, the relevance of kinship studies in the historian / Monica Wilson -- The Sotho-Tswana Peoples before 1800 / Martin Legassick -- The traditions of the Natal 'Nguni', a second look at the work of A.T. …”
    Book
  68. 68
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  69. 69
    by Wills, A. J. (Alfred John)
    Published 1967
    “…History of Central Africa…”
    Book
  70. 70
    Table of Contents: “…Mahemet Ali -- Arabi Pasha -- Gordon and the Mahdi -- The captives of the Mahdi -- Livingstone and Stanley -- Darkest Africa -- Uganda -- The war in Abyssinia -- Zanzibar -- The Barbary states -- Liberia, and Maryland's own colony -- England's little wars -- Diamond fields and gold mines -- Rhodesia -- The French in Africa -- Madagascar.…”
    Book
  71. 71
    by Rotberg, Robert I.
    Published 1965
    “…Great Britain Colonies Africa History. sh 86007182…”
    Book
  72. 72
    Table of Contents: “…Southern Africa in 1800 -- The Zulu nation -- Defensive nation-building -- African imperialism -- Afrikaner republicanism -- Southern Africa on the eve of the mineral revolution -- White penetration of the interior -- African reactions -- Resistance from within -- White unity and white union -- Re-grouping -- The struggle for parliamentary power -- The struggle for land -- Labour struggles -- Internal white power, 1910-1948 -- South Africa's neighbors -- Government moves out of parliament -- Opposition moves out of parliament -- Changing conditions of life -- Imperial factors -- Nationalisms.…”
    Book
  73. 73
    by Oliver, Roland Anthony, Fage, J. D.
    Published 1970
    Table of Contents: “…List of maps -- Africa: principal geographical features and vegetation -- Language families of Africa -- The Nile Valley -- North Africa and the Sahara in ancient times -- The Arabs in north Africa -- West Africa in the Great Age of Islam -- East and north-east Africa, seventh to eighteenth centuries -- The states of Guinea -- West Africa, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Africa from the Congo to the Zambezi -- The discovery of Africa by European explorers -- West Africa in the nineteenth century -- Southern Africa in the nineteenth century -- East and north-east Africa in the nineteenth century -- Africa in 1879 -- Africa in 1891 -- Africa in 1914 -- Africa after the peace settlement of 1919.…”
    Book
  74. 74
    by Stride, George, Ifeka, Caroline
    Published 1971
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Life zones of West Africa -- The states of the Senegal and Gambia valleys -- The ancient empire of Ghana -- The ancient empire of Mali -- The Songhai empire -- The Hausa states -- The Kanuri empires -- Islam in West Africa down to 1804 -- The economic history of West Africa down to about 1800 -- The arrival of Europeans -- Peoples of the coastal zone -- The trans-Atlantic slave trade -- Secret societies and war towns in the western forest -- The Akan states of the Guinea Forest : from Bono to Fante and Akwamu -- States of the Guinea Forest : the rise of Dahomey -- States of the Guinea Forest : the empire of Oyo -- States of the Guinea Forest : Great Benin -- The city-states of the Niger Delta -- Village peoples of the Guinea Forest : the Ibo and Ibibio.…”
    Book
  75. 75
    Published 1966
    Table of Contents: “…The continent -- III. North Africa and Ethiopia -- IV. West Africa -- V. South Africa -- VI. …”
    Government Document Book
  76. 76
    by Cornevin, Marianne
    Published 1980
    Subjects: “…Black people -- South Africa -- History.…”
    Book
  77. 77
    by Coombes, Annie E.
    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…: the place of "ethnicity" in the "new" South Africa -- New subjectivities for the new nation -- Changing places.…”
    Book
  78. 78
    Published 1970
    Subjects: “…Colonies -- Africa -- History.…”
    Book
  79. 79
    Table of Contents: “…The land and its fruits -- Administrative problems and the land -- What a League of Nations could do to protect tropical Africa from the evils of capitalistic exploitation and militarism.…”
    Book
  80. 80
  81. 81
    by Davidson, Basil, 1914-2010
    Published 1980
    Table of Contents: “…Before the trade began ; The old states of Africa ; Similarities ; Slaves and slaving ; Differences -- The years of trial. …”
    Book
  82. 82
    by Birmingham, David
    Published 1966
    Table of Contents: “…The Bantu of West Central Africa -- The opening of the Atlantic slave trade 1483-1565 -- The first Portuguese assault on Ndongo 1565-1603 -- The Imbangala invasion of Angola -- The decline of Ndongo and the rise of Matamba and Kasanje 1603-41 -- The destruction of Kongo and Ndongo 1641-83 -- The expansion of the slave trading system in West Central Africa 1683-1790.…”
    Book
  83. 83
    by Crais, Clifton C.
    Published 1992
    Table of Contents: “…Colonial Paradoxes: A departure : the will to power ; The taste of freedom other men eat so sweet : the emancipations ; The manor on the hill : British settlers in a New South Africa ; Ambiguous frontiers : religion, trade and misunderstanding ; Empire and the savages : capitalism, the state, and the image of the African ; Beasts of prey ; Of witchcraft, poles and old times that were past : the story continued -- Part III. …”
    Book
  84. 84
    Published 1979
    Subjects: “…British -- Africa -- History -- Sources.…”
    Book
  85. 85
    by Bridgland, Fred
    Published 1987
    Book
  86. 86
    by Marquard, Leopold, 1897-1974
    Published 1968
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  87. 87
    by Le Tourneau, Roger
    Published 1969
    “…Africa, North History. sh 85001638…”
    Book
  88. 88
    Subjects: “…Indigenous peoples -- South Africa.…”
    Book
  89. 89
    by Kapuściński, Ryszard
    Published 2001
    Table of Contents: “…-In the shade of a tree, in Africa.…”
    Book
  90. 90
    Subjects: “…Military architecture -- Africa, West.…”
    Book
  91. 91
    by Alden, Chris
    Published 1996
    Table of Contents: “…From the Security State to a New South Africa.…”
    Book
  92. 92
    Published 1967
    Subjects: “…Slave trade -- Africa, West.…”
    Government Document Book
  93. 93
    Table of Contents: “…Seyyid Said in East Africa -- The independence of Zanzibar (1856-1861) -- Vice-consul Kirk (1866-1873) -- The reign of Seyyid Majid (1856-1870) -- The accession of Seyyid Barghash (1870) -- The exploration of East Africa (1856-1873) -- The Arab slave trade -- The policy of restriction (1856-1873) -- The crux -- The policy of abolition. 1. …”
    Book
  94. 94
    Published 1985
    Table of Contents: “…Preface / Amadou-Mahtar M'bow -- Description of the project / B.A. Ogot -- Africa and the colonial challenge / A. Adu Boahen -- European partition and conquest of Africa : an overview / G.N. …”
    Book
  95. 95
    by Wills, A. J. (Alfred John)
    Published 1972
    “…Africa History Juvenile literature…”
    Book
  96. 96
    by Jeal, Tim
    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…. -- Dorothy's other love -- Was the Emin Pasha expedition piratical? -- Africa or a child -- An end to 'noble objects' -- Stanley, Leopold and the atrocities -- 'Before it is too late.'…”
    Book
  97. 97
    Published 1980
    Subjects: “…National liberation movements -- Africa, Southern.…”
    Book
  98. 98
    by Gann, Lewis H., 1924-1997
    Published 1971
    Book
  99. 99
    by Hepple, Alex, 1904-1983
    Published 1966
    “…South Africa History. sh 85125474…”
    Book
  100. 100
    by Davidson, Basil, 1914-
    Published 1978
    “…Africa History 1884-1960…”
    Book