Themes in West Africa's history
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Themes in West Africa's history
(Western African studies)
Ohio University Press , J. Currey , Woeli Pub. Services, 2006
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Description
Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels.
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. This comprehensive collection brings together leading scholars on key themes from West Africa's prehistory to the present. It discusses various disciplinary approaches to West African history, provides overviews of the literature on major topics, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research.
Part one provides perspectives on West Africa's history from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two provides longue duree perspectives on environment, society, agency and historical change. Part three examines how economic and political developments haveshaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. At the end of each chapter is a short list of recommended reading.
EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG is Professor of History at Harvard University
NorthAmerica: Ohio U Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
Table of Contents
Introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong I Paths To A West African Past - The Holocene prehistory of West Africa: 10,000-1000 BP by Susan Keech McIntosh - Ecology & culture in West Africa by James L. A. Webb Jr. - Linguistics & history in West Africa by M. E. Kropp Dakubu - Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding peoples of West Africa by David Conrad II Perspectives On Environment, Society, Agency & Historical Change - Slavery & slave trade in West Africa, 1450-1930 by Patrick Manning - Class, caste & social inequality in West African history by Ismail Rashid - Religious interactions in pre-20th century West Africa by Pash Obeng - Poverty in pre-colonial & colonial West Africa: perception, causes & alleviation by Ogbu U. Kalu - Disease in West African History by Emmanuel Akyeampong - Urbanization in colonial & post-colonial West Africa by Andreas Eckert III Understanding Contemporary West Africa Through Religion & Political Economy - Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & structural adjustment: an episode in West African economic history by Celestin Monga - Ethnicity, conflict & the state in contemporary West Africa by Cyril Daddieh - Pentecostalism, Islam & culture: new religious movements in West Africa by Brian Larkin & Birgit Meyer
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: cloth : uk ISBN 9780852559963
Description
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. This comprehensive collection brings together leading scholars on key themes from West Africa's prehistory to the present. It discusses various disciplinary approaches to West African history, provides overviews of the literature on major topics, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research.
Part one provides perspectives on West Africa's history from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two provides longue duree perspectives on environment, society, agency and historical change. Part three examines how economic and political developments haveshaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. At the end of each chapter is a short list of recommended reading.
EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG is Professor of History at Harvard University
NorthAmerica: Ohio U Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
Table of Contents
Introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong I Paths To A West African Past - The Holocene prehistory of West Africa: 10,000-1000 BP by Susan Keech McIntosh - Ecology & culture in West Africa by James L. A. Webb Jr. - Linguistics & history in West Africa by M. E. Kropp Dakubu - Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding peoples of West Africa by David Conrad II Perspectives On Environment, Society, Agency & Historical Change - Slavery & slave trade in West Africa, 1450-1930 by Patrick Manning - Class, caste & social inequality in West African history by Ismail Rashid - Religious interactions in pre-20th century West Africa by Pash Obeng - Poverty in pre-colonial & colonial West Africa: perception, causes & alleviation by Ogbu U. Kalu - Disease in West African History by Emmanuel Akyeampong - Urbanization in colonial & post-colonial West Africa by Andreas Eckert III Understanding Contemporary West Africa Through Religion & Political Economy - Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & structural adjustment: an episode in West African economic history by Celestin Monga - Ethnicity, conflict & the state in contemporary West Africa by Cyril Daddieh - Pentecostalism, Islam & culture: new religious movements in West Africa by Brian Larkin & Birgit Meyer
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