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African history : a very short introduction

Authors:John Parker, Richard Rathbone

Summary:"Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent."--Ebook Library

eBook, English, 2007

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

Series:

Very short introductions, 160

Genre:Electronic books

Physical Description:1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN:

9780191516597, 9780191577642, 9786611146771, 0191516597, 0191577642, 6611146776

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:181654648

Subjects:

Afrique Histoire

Electronic books

HISTORY General

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

African history.

Parker, John, 1960-

Contents:

The idea of Africa

Africans: diversity and unity

Africa's past: historical sources

Africa in the world

Colonialism in Africa

Imagining the future, rebuilding the past

Memory and forgetting, past and present