Description

Features

• Global context stresses Africa's participation in global history. This enables students to find the context for the often unfamiliar material contained in African history survey courses.
• Balanced presentation of key debates. This helps students realize the ever-evolving nature of historical inquiry, thus bringing the continent and its history alive.
• Comprehensive historical coverage—Presents African History through regional and thematic chapters which contextualize and examine the cultural, economic and political currents of African History. Students see a contemporary approach to African History that features compelling coverage of Africa's dynamic history.
• African “myths” addressed—e.g. commonly held view of Africa as primitive, exotic, unspoiled, utopian or broken continent. This provides students with a realistic view of the challenges facing the continent and allows students to develop a view of the continent based on historical research rather than popular mythology.
• Comprehensive supporting materials—Including maps, full-color images, primary source text boxes and time lines. These materials showcase the diversity and complexity of African history and enables instructors to forgo potentially expensive supplements.
• Well-organized, engaging writing style, providing students with an extensive amount of information while keeping them engaged with the subject.

New To This Edition

How get your students engage in the History of Africa?

• NEW- Linguistic and genetic evidence on African pre-history
• NEW- Chapter 1 has been re-written to take into account the most recent evidence on human evolution with a greater focus on debates surrounding the details of human evolution in Africa.
• NEW- 30 new maps.
• NEW-  Photographs, including a second color insert.
• NEW- Photo essays provide a visual component to the 'Notions of Africa' section:
  • 'Representing Africa' photo essay looks at the way that various ideas about Africa are reflected in images.
  • 'Crossing the Borders of African and World History' photo essay offers visual examples of world historical connections

Table of Contents

PART 1           Africa up to 1500 c.e.

            Chapter 1         Africa and Human Origins

            Chapter 2         Physical Context of African History: Geography and Environment

            Chapter 3         Settled Life:  Food Production, Technology and Migrations

            Chapter 4         North and Northeast Africa in Early World History

            Chapter 5        Africa and the Early Christian World

            Chapter 6         North and West Africa and the Spread of Islam

            Chapter 7         East Africa and the Advent of Islam

            Chapter 8         Slavery and the Creation of the Atlantic World

            Chapter 9         West and West-Central Africa: 1500—1880

            Chapter 10       North Africa and the Soudan: 1500—1880        

            Chapter 11       East Africa, 1500—1850

            Chapter 12       Southern Africa, 1500—1870

            Chapter 13       Colonialism and African Resistance

            Chapter 14       Economic Change in Modern Africa: Forced Integration into the World System

            Chapter 15       Political Change in the Time of Colonialism

            Chapter 16       African Culture in the Modern World

            Chapter 17       Politics in the Era of Decolonization and Independence

            Chapter 18       Contemporary Africa

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History of Africa  (Western & World History)

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• Africa in World History, 3/E
  Gilbert & Reynolds
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  Provides a view of African history in the wider context of world history.

   

  For one semester or quarter survey courses on African history. 

   

  Africa in World History is the first comprehensive survey to illustrate how Africans have influenced regions beyond their continent’s borders, how they have been influenced from the outside and how internal African developments can be compared to those elsewhere in the world. By identifying and presenting key debates within the field of African history, this volume encourages students to confront the many oversimplified myths regarding Africa and its people.

   

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  Improve Critical Thinking- Effective pedagogy includes maps, full-color images, primary source text boxes, and time lines.

   

  Engage Students- Integrated regional and thematic chapters provide students with an extensive amount of information in an organized manner.

   

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