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Author:   John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) ,  Richard Reid (Professor of the History of Africa, Professor of the History of Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9780198779407

ISBN 10:   0198779402
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Richard Reid and John Parker: Introduction - African Histories: Past, Present, and Future PART ONE: KEY THEMES IN AFRICAN HISTORY 1: James McCann: Ecology and Environment 2: Shane Doyle: Demography and Disease 3: Pier M. Larson: African Slave Trades in Global Perspective 4: Walter Hawthorne: States and Statelessness 5: Richard Waller: Ethnicity and Identity 6: Richard Reid: Warfare and the Military 7: John Parker: The African Diaspora PART TWO: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER 8: Heather J. Sharkey: African Colonial States 9: Richard Roberts: Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa 10: Emily Lynn Osborn: Work and Migration 11: Justin Willis: Chieftaincy 12: Jean Allman: Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization PART THREE: RELIGION AND BELIEF 13: Marie Miran-Guyon and Jean-Louis Triaud: Islam 14: David Maxwell: Christianity 15: Robert M. Baum: Indigenous African Religions 16: Sean Hanretta: New Religious Movements PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY 17: Carol Summers: Education and Literacy 18: Barbara M. Cooper: Women and Gender 19: John Parker: Urbanization and Urban Cultures 20: Nancy Rose Hunt: Health and Healing 21: Nicolas Argenti and Deborah Durham: Youth 22: Morten Jerven: Economic Growth PART FIVE: ARTS AND THE MEDIA 23: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir: Visual Cultures 24: Veit Erlmann: Music in Modern African History 25: Stephanie Newell: African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures 26: James R. Brennan: Communications and Media

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the Handbook will be of major interest to both teachers of African history and the curious general reader. And since most essays include sections on 'future directions' and subjects ripe for further investigations, prospective researchers, too, have reasons to be grateful for the appearance of this timely addition to the Oxford Handbooks series. Giacomo Macola, History Today the volume's essays offer a fascinating panorama of the landscape of African history as it is today: in many ways a vibrant picture of the breadth and subtlety of research. The essays often impress with their grasp of the continent as a whole, and in their coverage of interactions between politics, society, and culture ... an invaluable addition to an outstanding series. Tim Livsey, Journal of Historical Geography set to be a great success. Miles Larmer, English Historical Review

set to be a great success. * Miles Larmer, English Historical Review * the volume's essays offer a fascinating panorama of the landscape of African history as it is today: in many ways a vibrant picture of the breadth and subtlety of research. The essays often impress with their grasp of the continent as a whole, and in their coverage of interactions between politics, society, and culture ... an invaluable addition to an outstanding series. * Tim Livsey, Journal of Historical Geography * the Handbook will be of major interest to both teachers of African history and the curious general reader. And since most essays include sections on 'future directions' and subjects ripe for further investigations, prospective researchers, too, have reasons to be grateful for the appearance of this timely addition to the Oxford Handbooks series. * Giacomo Macola, History Today *

the Handbook will be of major interest to both teachers of African history and the curious general reader. And since most essays include sections on 'future directions' and subjects ripe for further investigations, prospective researchers, too, have reasons to be grateful for the appearance of this timely addition to the Oxford Handbooks series. Giacomo Macola, History Today the volume's essays offer a fascinating panorama of the landscape of African history as it is today: in many ways a vibrant picture of the breadth and subtlety of research. The essays often impress with their grasp of the continent as a whole, and in their coverage of interactions between politics, society, and culture ... an invaluable addition to an outstanding series. Tom Livsey, Journal of Historical Geography set to be a great success. Miles Larmer, English Historical Review

Author Information

John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana. Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.

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