Medieval Africa, 1250-1800

"This is a revised and updated edition of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800 (first published in 1981), a companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition). Although this volume follows the overall plan of the original, the story now begins 150 years earlier, and takes into account the wealth of supportive literature in African historical studies over the last twenty years. The earlier starting date has enabled the authors to look at the entire continent from a more distinctly African viewpoint. By about 1250 AD African societies were greatly expanding their political and economic scope. Islam was spreading south across the Sahara from Mediterranean Africa, and down the Indian Ocean coast. Medieval Africa continues into the period of European contacts from the fourteenth century onwards, with much, but not exclusive, emphasis on the growth of the trans-Saharan, Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade. The book stresses the strengths, while not overlooking the weaknesses, of African societies as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume will be an essential introduction to African history for students, as well as for the general reader. It is illustrated with a wealth of maps."--Jacket.

שנה

2001

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

260

ISBN

9780521790246

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata