A history of modern Africa : 1800 to the present /
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| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Edição: | 2nd ed. |
| Colecção: | Concise history of the modern world.
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Sumário:
- Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past
- 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
- Revival and reaction: North African Islam
- Jihad: revolutions in western Africa
- The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in eastern Africa
- The compass and the cross
- "Whatever happens": towards the scramble
- Africans adapting: conquest and partition
- "Pax colonia": empires of soil and service
- Hard times: protest, identity, and depression
- Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again)
- The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world
- Conceiving and producing nations
- Compromising conflict: routes to independence
- Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence
- Violence and the militarization of political culture
- Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.