The civilizations of Africa
Subtitle: a history to 1800
By: Christopher Ehret
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780813928807
Subjects: Civilization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Africa and its history; title: Africa before the agricultural age, 19,000-9500 BCE; title: Culture and technology in Africa, 9500-3500 BCE; title: Diverging paths of history : Africa 3500-1000 BCE; title: An age of commerce, an age of iron : Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE; title: Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450; title: Northeastern, West, and North Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450; title: The early Atlantic age, 1450-1640; title: Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800.