The Civilizations of Africa

With his focus on pre-colonial Africa, Christopher Ehret provides in this volume a complete overview of African history. He examines African inventions and civilizations from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE, from the northern tip of Tunisia to the Cape of Good Hope in the south. Organized by topic and era, it reveals the diversity of African history. It explores the wide range of social and cultural as well as technological and economic change in Africa, and it depicts African agricultural, social, political, cultural, technological and economic history in relation to developments in the rest of the world. This book could be fruitfully combined with histories of Africa since 1800 to build up a full and well-rounded understanding of the roles of Africa's people in human history.

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An authoritative and strikingly original overview of African history up to 1800, written at a level that will be accessible to entering college students. - Patrick Manning, Northeastern University, author of Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000 From the text: Africa lies at the heart of human history. It is the continent from which the ancestors of every one of us, no matter who we are today, originally came. Its peoples participated integrally in the great transformations of world history.... Bigger than the United States, China, India, Australia, and Europe combined, the African continent presents us with a historical panorama of surpassing richness and diversity.

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Christopher Ehret is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400.

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Introducing Africa and its history; Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE; culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 BCE; diverging paths of history - Africa 3500-1000 BCE; an age of commerce, an age of iron - Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE; Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa - the middle centuries, 300-1450; Northeastern, West and North Africa - the middle centuries, 300-1450; the early Atlantic age, 1450-1640; Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800.

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