The civilizations of Africa
Subtitle: a history to 1800
By: Christopher Ehret.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; University of Virginia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Africa -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Africa and its history; title: Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE; title: Culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 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.