アフリカ文明：１８００年代までの歴史 The Civilizations of Africa : A History to 1800

Ehret, Christopher

University of Virginia Press（2002/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 480 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813920856
• DDC分類 960

基本説明

With his focus on precolonial Africa. Ehret provides a remarkably complete and original overview of African history from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE.

Full Description

With his focus on pre-colonial Africa, Christopher Ehret provides in this volume a complete overview of African history. He examines African inventions and civilizations from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE, from the northern tip of Tunisia to the Cape of Good Hope in the south. Organized by topic and era, it reveals the diversity of African history. It explores the wide range of social and cultural as well as technological and economic change in Africa, and it depicts African agricultural, social, political, cultural, technological and economic history in relation to developments in the rest of the world. This book could be fruitfully combined with histories of Africa since 1800 to build up a full and well-rounded understanding of the roles of Africa's people in human history.

Contents

Introducing Africa and its history; Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE; culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 BCE; diverging paths of history - Africa 3500-1000 BCE; an age of commerce, an age of iron - Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE; Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa - the middle centuries, 300-1450; Northeastern, West and North Africa - the middle centuries, 300-1450; the early Atlantic age, 1450-1640; Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800.