Africans
Subtitle: the history of a continent
By: John Iliffe.
Series: African studies series ;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Africa -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: The frontiersmen of mankind -- The emergence of food-producing communities -- The impact of metals -- Christianity and Islam -- Colonising society in western Africa -- Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- Colonial invasion -- Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- Independent Africa -- Industrialisation and race in South Africa.