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Colonial Africa, 1884-1994, Second Edition, presents a balanced, accessible, and comprehensive overview of how Africans experienced European colonial rule. This brief and affordable text is organized in a ""layered"" approach that gives students a deeper insight into the ways in which Africans encountered, shaped, confronted, depicted, and ended colonialism. African World Histories is a series of retellings of some of the most commonly discussed episodes of the African and global past from the perspectives of Africans who lived through them. Accessible yet scholarly, African World Histories gives students insights into African experiences concerning many of the events and trends that are commonly discussed in the history classroom.

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Colonial Africa provides students with a good first entry point into European colonialism in Africa. It helps students to gain a sense of broader dynamics before potentially delving into more specific setups. Laumann also adds useful resources and further readings, allowing students to dig deeper into specific topics. The organizational framework pushes students to think beyond chronological setups and nation-states, and allows instructors to assign this book first before moving through the colonial period step by step.--Martin Kalb, Bridgewater College I really like this slim volume and have been using it in my African History II course ever since it came out. It is clearly structured around four major themes, and introduces students to the complexities and controversies surrounding the study of modern African history. The book draws on the scholarship in the field and accounts for the emerging and competing trends in the study of Africa, and doesn't shy away from explaining the scholarly terminology deployed by historians. At the same time, it is written in clear, concise, and accessible prose. I find it particularly useful that Laumann spends time explaining the importance of ideology and introducing students to the ideological discourses that shaped both colonial and postcolonial African history.--Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University

Colonial Africa provides students with a good first entry point into European colonialism in Africa. It helps students to gain a sense of broader dynamics before potentially delving into more specific setups. Laumann also adds useful resources and further readings, allowing students to dig deeper into specific topics. The organizational framework pushes students to think beyond chronological setups and nation-states, and allows instructors to assign this book first before moving through the colonial period step by step. --Martin Kalb, Bridgewater College I really like this slim volume and have been using it in my African History II course ever since it came out. It is clearly structured around four major themes, and introduces students to the complexities and controversies surrounding the study of modern African history. The book draws on the scholarship in the field and accounts for the emerging and competing trends in the study of Africa, and doesn't shy away from explaining the scholarly terminology deployed by historians. At the same time, it is written in clear, concise, and accessible prose. I find it particularly useful that Laumann spends time explaining the importance of ideology and introducing students to the ideological discourses that shaped both colonial and postcolonial African history. --Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University

Colonial Africa provides students with a good first entry point into European colonialism in Africa. It helps students to gain a sense of broader dynamics before potentially delving into more specific setups. Laumann also adds useful resources and further readings, allowing students to dig deeper into specific topics. The organizational framework pushes students to think beyond chronological setups and nation-states, and allows instructors to assign this book first before moving through the colonial period step by step.--Martin Kalb, Bridgewater College I really like this slim volume and have been using it in my African History II course ever since it came out. It is clearly structured around four major themes, and introduces students to the complexities and controversies surrounding the study of modern African history. The book draws on the scholarship in the field and accounts for the emerging and competing trends in the study of Africa, and doesn't shy away from explaining the scholarly terminology deployed by historians. At the same time, it is written in clear, concise, and accessible prose. I find it particularly useful that Laumann spends time explaining the importance of ideology and introducing students to the ideological discourses that shaped both colonial and postcolonial African history.--Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University

This is a perfect text to introduce undergraduate students to the history of European colonialism in Africa. It combines topical breadth with lucid analysis, well informed by recent scholarship. --Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University I found Colonial Africa to be very well-thought and executed. Its main strength is that it presents the topic of colonialism both as a historical event to be examined, and as a historiographical debate that has occupied historians for quite some time. It offers a solid and accessible introduction to the history and historiography of colonialism in Africa. --Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Montclair State University This is a perfect text to introduce undergraduate students to the history of European colonialism in Africa. It combines topical breadth with lucid analysis, well informed by recent scholarship. --Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University I found Colonial Africa to be very well-thought and executed. Its main strength is that it presents the topic of colonialism both as a historical event to be examined, and as a historiographical debate that has occupied historians for quite some time. It offers a solid and accessible introduction to the history and historiography of colonialism in Africa. --Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Montclair State University

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Dennis Laumann is Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at The University of Memphis.

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