Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
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Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century
(General history of Africa, 4)
James Currey , University of California Press , Unesco, 1997
Abridged ed
- : James Currey
- : Univ. of Calif. Press
- : Unesco
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At head of title: International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (UNESCO)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.
The twelfth to the sixteenth centuries constitute a crucial phase in the continent's history, and a period in which written records became more common. The period covered by this volume has several major themes: the triumph of Islam; the extension of trading relations; cultural exchanges and human contacts; and the development of kingdoms and empires.
The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.
Table of Contents
- The unification of the Maghrib under the Almohads
- the spread of civilization in the Maghrib and its impact on Western civilization
- the disintegration of political unity in the Maghrib
- society in the Maghrib after the disappearance of the Almohads
- Mali and the second Mande expansion
- the decline of the empire of Mali - the 15th to 16th centuries
- the Songhay from the 12th to the 16th century
- the peoples and kingdoms of the Niger Bend and the Volta basin from the 12th to the 16th century
- the kingdoms and peoples of Chad
- the Hausa and their neighbours in the central Sudan
- the coastal peoples from Casamance to the Cote d'Ivoire lagoons
- from the Cote d'Ivoire lagoons to the Volta
- from the Volta to Cameroon
- Egypt and the Muslim world from the 12th to the beginning of the 16th century
- Nubia from the late-12th century to the Funji conquest in the early 16th century
- the Horn of Africa - the Solomonids in Ethiopia and the states of the Horn of Africa
- the development of Swahili cilvilization
- between the coast and the Great Lakes
- the Great Lakes region
- the Zambezi and Limpopo basins 1100-1500
- Equatorial Africa and Angola - migrations and the emergence of the first states
- southern Africa - its peoples and social structures
- Madagascar and the neighbouring islands from the 12th to the 16th century
- relationships and exchanges among the different regions
- Africa in inter-continental relations.
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