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- catalog abstract ""This is a revised and updated edition of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800 (first published in 1981), a companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition). Although this volume follows the overall plan of the original, the story now begins 150 years earlier, and takes into account the wealth of supportive literature in African historical studies over the last twenty years. The earlier starting date has enabled the authors to look at the entire continent from a more distinctly African viewpoint. By about 1250 AD African societies were greatly expanding their political and economic scope. Islam was spreading south across the Sahara from Mediterranean Africa, and down the Indian Ocean coast. Medieval Africa continues into the period of European contacts from the fourteenth century onwards, with much, but not exclusive, emphasis on the growth of the trans-Saharan, Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade. The book stresses the strengths, while not overlooking the weaknesses, of African societies as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume will be an essential introduction to African history for students, as well as for the general reader. It is illustrated with a wealth of maps."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12304334.
- catalog contributor b12304335.
- catalog contributor b12304336.
- catalog coverage "Africa History To 1884.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This is a revised and updated edition of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800 (first published in 1981), a companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition). Although this volume follows the overall plan of the original, the story now begins 150 years earlier, and takes into account the wealth of supportive literature in African historical studies over the last twenty years. The earlier starting date has enabled the authors to look at the entire continent from a more distinctly African viewpoint. By about 1250 AD African societies were greatly expanding their political and economic scope. Islam was spreading south across the Sahara from Mediterranean Africa, and down the Indian Ocean coast. Medieval Africa continues into the period of European contacts from the fourteenth century onwards, with much, but not exclusive, emphasis on the growth of the trans-Saharan, Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade. The book stresses the strengths, while not overlooking the weaknesses, of African societies as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume will be an essential introduction to African history for students, as well as for the general reader. It is illustrated with a wealth of maps."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The medieval scene -- Egypt: al-Misr -- Ifriqiya and the Regencies -- The Islamic Far West: Morocco -- The western Sudan and upper Guinea -- The central Sudan and lower Guinea -- Nubia, Darfur and Wadai -- The north-eastern triangle -- The upper Nile basin and the East African plateau -- The heart of Africa -- The land of the blacksmith kings -- From the Lualaba to the Zambezi -- The approaches to Zimbabwe -- The peoples of the South.".
- catalog extent "vii, 251 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521790247".
- catalog identifier "0521793726 (Pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa History To 1884.".
- catalog subject "DT25 .O39 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The medieval scene -- Egypt: al-Misr -- Ifriqiya and the Regencies -- The Islamic Far West: Morocco -- The western Sudan and upper Guinea -- The central Sudan and lower Guinea -- Nubia, Darfur and Wadai -- The north-eastern triangle -- The upper Nile basin and the East African plateau -- The heart of Africa -- The land of the blacksmith kings -- From the Lualaba to the Zambezi -- The approaches to Zimbabwe -- The peoples of the South.".
- catalog title "Medieval Africa, 1250-1800 / Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".