A history of Africa / J.D. Fage with William Tordoff.

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Edition:4th ed.
Published: London : New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The internal development of African society. 1. The origins of African society. 2. Africa and the ancient civilizations of the Near East and the Mediterranean. 3. The development of states and trade in the Sudan. 4. The development of states and trade in Guinea. 5. States and trade in North-East and Bantu Africa
  • Pt. 2. The impact of Islam. 6. The rise of Islam and the Arab empire in North Africa. 7. The Muslim states and empires of North Africa. 8. The advance of Islam in West Africa
  • Pt. 3. Africa in the age of European expansion. 9. The beginnings of European enterprise in Africa. 10. The first stage of the impact of world trade on tropical Africa: the export slave trade. 11. West Africa during the slave trade era. 12. Bantu Africa, c. 1600 to c. 1870. 13. The expansion of European power during the nineteenth century, 1: general considerations; West Africa. 14. The expansion of European power during the nineteenth century, 2: South, East and North Africa
  • Pt. 4. Africa in the modern world. 15. The colonial period, 1: policies in general and colonies of exploitation in particular. 16. The colonial period, 2: colonies of settlement. 17. Independence resumed. 18. Independent Africa, 1: to 1989 / J. D. Fage and William Tordoff. 19. Independent Africa, 2: from 1990 / William Tordoff.