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History of Africa, Revised 2nd Edition
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by Kevin Shillington
Sales Rank: 88736
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Cover Type: Paperback with 450 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan; Revised 2nd edition August 11, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0333599578
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0333599570
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
From Library Journal
This work is written from an African perspective e.g., "Alexander of Macedon (known in European history as Alexander the Great)" and is geared to secondary students (it comes complete with questions). It attempts to emphasize developments affecting the lives of "ordinary" people, from the beginning evolution of humankind up to the present, although post-independence Africa receives but 18 pages (and the bibliography lists only thirty items). Nevertheless, this is a good, well-written introductory text, although some might consider a number of its views, based as they are on the latest trends in scholarship, to be controversial (e.g., South African whites are referred to as "settlers"). Recommended.
- Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Review
"A work with many virtuesstylistic lucidity, profusion of clear maps and great illustrations."--International Journal of African Historical Studies
Reader Reviews
This review is from: History of Africa, Revised Edition (Paperback)
Shillington provides a good survey style textbook on African history from antiquity to the modern period. He covers in great detail and quality of the relationship between Africa and Islam as well as the nature of slavery and apartheid. He covers the slave trade in quite a bit of detail, explaining the value of the African as a marketable commodity. He also explains the origins of apartheid as a colonial parting gift that became entrenched racist national policy for more than fifty years. Shillington's survey is quite appropriate for a high school African history class, an undergraduate African history survey or introduction or even as a first book for a graduate African history course. The topics covered here are obviously from an Africanist point of view although there is a minimum, if any, level of bias on Shillington's part.
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