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Author : afterwards HOFLAND HOOLE (Barbara)
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Africa described in its ancient and present state written by afterwards HOFLAND HOOLE (Barbara) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : afterwards HOFLAND HOOLE (Barbara)
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Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State ... A New Edition written by afterwards HOFLAND HOOLE (Barbara) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Hofland (Barbara)
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Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State written by Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780461330090
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107651344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Africa since 1940 written by Frederick Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.
Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9780753804605
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Into Africa written by Marq De Villiers and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant picture of a rich, exotic, complex and fascinating continent in the style of Bruce Chatwin. Verbal snapshots, images, anecdotes, legends, tales, gossip, illustrations, photographs, art and maps lend insight and depth to this multi-layered portrait of a continent. Into Africa uses the ancient empires and trading patterns of prehistory as the primary framework, to explain how Africa was and is today. The book does not ignore the calamities, the collapse of civil authority, the wars, the famines, the human misery, the environmental degradation. But it does record the triumphs, small and large. More important, Into Africa goes beyond politics and tourism, into history and legend, art and culture, both popular and profound.
Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444355147
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
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Download or read book Africa Described in Its Ancient and Present State, Including Accounts from Bruce, Ledyard, Lucas, Horneman, Park, Jackson, Salt, Sir F. Heniker, Belzoni, the Portuguese Missionaries and Others, Down to the Recent Discoveries by Major Denham, Dr. Oudney, Captain Clapperton, M. Caillie, and the Landers, Intended for the Use of Young Persons and Schools written by Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982135
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book African Voices of the Global Past written by Trevor R. Getz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.
Author : Ahmed G. Fahmy
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3937248323
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Windows on the African Past written by Ahmed G. Fahmy and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeobotany has significantly increased our knowledge of the relationships between humans and plants throughout the ages. As is amply illustrated in this volume, botanical remains preserved in archaeological contexts have great potential to inform us about past environments and the various methods used by ancient peoples to exploit and cultivate plants. This volume presents the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) held at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, on 13-15 June 2009. Studies presented herein clearly illustrate that African archaeobotany is a dynamic field, with many advances in techniques and important case studies presented since the first meeting of IWAA held in 1994. Authors have employed classical and new archaeobotanical techniques, in addition to linguistics and ethnoarchaeology to increase our knowledge about the role of plants in ancient African societies. This book covers a wide range of African countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Canary Islands. It is of interest to archaeobotanists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, agronomists, and plant ecologists.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997650X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The African Experience written by Roland Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition of The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching and research, Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the human colonization of the different regions of Africa, the origins of food production, and the formation of African languages.The achievements of Ancient Egypt are placed in context with the developments in the rest of the continent, and the spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - "peoples of the book." The tradition of urban settlement is traced, especially in western Africa, as well as the emergence of large and complex societies formed by the interaction of pastoralists and cultivators in eastern and southern Africa.The extent and nature of slavery in Africa is fully discussed, together with the external slave trade and the caravan trade in precolonial times. This leads to an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of African political systems and why, from the early nineteenth century onwards, these systems were unable to withstand political pressure from abroad and the ensuing colonization. The colonial partition of Africa saw the rapid amalgamation of small units, through which considerable modernization was achieved at the expense of the indigenous structures and through the exploitation of the African peoples. Later chapters describe the birth of modern African nation-states, at a time of widespread belief in state planning - now being questioned as the political elites of black Africa begin to review their single-party systems. This new edition sees a number of revisions, including a new chapter on the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War left Africa free at last to try to solve its own problems.
Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876570
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts
Author : Madelaine Böhme
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771647523
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Ancient Bones written by Madelaine Böhme and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Böhme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the fieldworker, and carries great authority." —Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books In this "fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins" (Kirkus STARRED Review), a renowned paleontologist takes readers behind-the-scenes of one of the most groundbreaking archaeological digs in recent history. Somewhere west of Munich, paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they ever imagined: the twelve-million-year-old bones of Danuvius guggenmosi make headlines around the world. This ancient ape defies prevailing theories of human history—his skeletal adaptations suggest a new common ancestor between apes and humans, one that dwelled in Europe, not Africa. Might the great apes that traveled from Africa to Europe before Danuvius's time be the key to understanding our own origins? All this and more is explored in Ancient Bones. Using her expertise as a paleoclimatologist and paleontologist, Böhme pieces together an awe-inspiring picture of great apes that crossed land bridges from Africa to Europe millions of years ago, evolving in response to the challenging conditions they found. She also takes us behind the scenes of her research, introducing us to former theories of human evolution (complete with helpful maps and diagrams), and walks us through musty museum overflow storage where she finds forgotten fossils with yellowed labels, before taking us along to the momentous dig where she and the team unearthed Danuvius guggenmosi himself—and the incredible reverberations his discovery caused around the world. Praise for Ancient Bones: "Readable and thought-provoking. Madelaine Böhme is an iconoclast whose fossil discoveries have challenged long-standing ideas on the origins of the ancestors of apes and humans." —Steve Brusatte, New York Times-bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs "An inherently fascinating, impressively informative, and exceptionally thought-provoking read." —Midwest Book Review "An impressive introduction to the burgeoning recalibration of paleoanthropology." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek R. Peterson
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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Recasting the Past written by Derek R. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. The book takes its place alongside a small but growing literature that highlights how, in autobiographies, historical writing, fiction, and other literary genres, African writers intervened creatively in their political world. The past has already been worked over by the African interpreters that the present volume brings into view. African brokers—pastors, journalists, kingmakers, religious dissidents, politicians, entrepreneurs all—have been doing research, conducting interviews, reading archives, and presenting their results to critical audiences. Their scholarly work makes it impossible to think of African history as an inert entity awaiting the attention of professional historians. Professionals take their place in a broader field of interpretation, where Africans are already reifying, editing, and representing the past. The essays collected in Recasting the Past study the warp and weft of Africa’s homespun historical work. Contributors trace the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work. By illuminating the conventions of the past, Africa’s history writers set their contemporary constituents on a path toward a particular future. History writing was a means by which entrepreneurs conjured up constituencies, claimed legitimate authority, and mobilized people around a cause. By illuminating the spheres of debate in which Africa’s own scholars participated, Recasting the Past repositions the practice of modern history.
Author : William H. Worger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047065631X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Companion to African History written by William H. Worger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.
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