Western African History (Selected Course Outlines and Reading Lists from American Col) - Softcover

Collins, Professor Of History Robert O

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558760156 ISBN 13: 9781558760158

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park, Heinrich Barth, René Caillé, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers such as Abd Allah ibn Muhammad and Al-Kanami, Sire Abbas Soh, and Ahmadu Hampate Ba. The trans-Saharan and cross-Atlantic slave trades are a central concern of the book and the French and British colonial periods are also scrutinized. Modern times are examined in the texts of Nnamidi Azikiwe, Léopold Senghor, Sékou Touré, and Kwame Nkrumah. Special emphasis is placed on original African texts about political traditions, independence movements after WWII, the law, and other themes of social and political history. The African History in Documents series also features: Volume II: Eastern African History Volume III: Central and South African History

About this title

About the Author:

About Robert O. Collins: Robert O. Collins, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1919-1956 and The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988, as well as 24 other books.

Review:

"Nothing should diminish the fundamental value of this resource book for hard-pressed teachers, penniless students and underfunded libraries involved in the study of African history. Here is a ready-made text of readings to splendidly set a teacher on his or her way, and thank the initiative of Robert Collins therefor." -- West Africa

About this edition

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1558760156
• ISBN 13: 9781558760158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264