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Themes in West Africa's History
Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Martlesham :
Boydell & Brewer, Limited,
2006.
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| Colección: | Western African studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps & Figures
- Acknowledgements & Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Paths to a West African Past
- 1. The Holocene Prehistory of West Africa 10,000-1000 BP
- 2. Ecology & Culture in West Africa
- 3. Linguistics & History in West Africa
- 4. Oral Tradition & Perceptions of History from the Manding Peoples of West Africa
- Part II: Perspectives on Environment, Society, Agency & Historical Change
- 5. Slavery & Slave Trade in West Africa 1450-1930
- 6. Class, Caste & Social Inequality in West African History
- 7. Religious Interactions in Pre-Twentieth Century West Africa
- 8. Poverty in Pre-Colonial & Colonial West Africa: Perception, Causes & Alleviation
- 9. Disease in West African History
- 10. Urbanization in Colonial & Post-Colonial West Africa
- Part III: Understanding Contemporary West Africa through Religion & Political Economy
- 11. Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & Structural Adjustment: An Episode in West African Economic History
- 12. Ethnicity, Conflict & the State in Contemporary West Africa
- 13. Pentecostalism, Islam & Culture: New Religious Movements in West Africa
- Index