A history of modern Africa : 1800 to the present /
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| Author / Creator: | Reid, Richard J. (Richard James), author. |
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Imprint: | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( 1 volume.) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Concise history of the modern world Concise history of the modern world. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11994643 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past
- Part I. Polity, society, and economy: ingenuity and violence in the nineteenth century
- Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa
- Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in Eastern Africa
- Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in Southern Africa
- Part II. Africa and Islam: revival and reform in the nineteenth century
- Revival and reaction: North African Islam
- Jihad: revolutions in Western Africa
- The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in Eastern Africa
- Part III. Africa and Europe: commerce, conflict and co-option, to c.1920 113
- The compass and the cross
- "Whatever happens ... ": towards the scramble
- Africans adapting: conquest and partition
- Part IV. Colonialisms
- "Pax colonia"? Empires of soil and service
- Hard times: protest, identity, and depression
- Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again)
- Part V. The dissolution of empire
- The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world
- Conceiving and producing nations
- Compromising conflict: routes to independence
- Part VI. Legacies, new beginnings, and unfinished business
- Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence
- Violence and the militarization of political culture
- Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.
