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The History Atlas of Africa : From the First Humans to the Emergence of a New South Africa (History Atlas Series)
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by Samuel Kasule
Sales Rank: 1301786
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$37.55
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 160 pages
Published by: MacMillan Publishing Company.Edition: 1st Edition June 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0028625803
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0028625805
Book Dimensions:
10.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
Samuel Kasule, a professor of African literature, offers a wide-ranging view of African history in this heavily illustrated yet slender atlas. Proceeding chronologically, he covers topics such as the origins of humankind, the development of settled agriculture in the valley of the Nile, and the arrival of the first European colonists. Although the atlas covers African history after World War II rather too lightly, it is a useful student reference, nonetheless.
Book Description
Entertaining, authoritative, overflowing with gorgeous graphics and cutting-edge maps, this innovative series brings history to life through word and imageand tells each continents story from the perspective of its people The Macmillan Continental History Atlases form a major series of five distinguished illustrated history books for the popular and student audiences. Each book stands on its own to present a clear, visually exciting, and comprehensive history of a continent through colorful maps, lively text, and illustrations prepared by leading cartographers and specialists in its history. As a group, the five volumes convey a unique and innovative understanding of world history. The series provides the first truly focused continental perspective on history. The books have been created to give popular history readers and students alike accurate and unbiased information written from the point of view of each continent (rather than from an exclusively Western European or colonial perspective). Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America are each described in 80,000 words of text, 50 color maps, and seventy illustrations and photographs. Each spread within a volume covers in detail a single topic in the historical development of that continent. Together, the spreads make up a complete historical background of the major events that shaped the continents past and present. Readers interested in a specific continent will find in each book an authoritative, absorbing, gorgeously illustrated overview of that continents history. For readers interested in world history, the five volumes make up an invaluable resource for a full understanding of how the worlds jigsaw fits together. Africa is the continent from which humanity emerged a million or more years ago and which may yet teach today-s diverse humans the art of living together in tolerance. Dr. Samuel Kasule of Makere University, Kampala, Uganda, and Leeds University, UK, now teaches post-colonial literature and is a principal researcher for the Center for Study of State and Identity at the University of Derby.
Reader Reviews
Like all other atlases in this series, the African volume is interesting, reasonably comprehensive, but way, WAY, too superficial. The publishers have the merrit of being the first to attempt a continent-by-continent historical atlas coverage. Problem is, their small books are sometimes as much detailed as the corresponding chapter of a more accomplished, generic, World Atlas, like The Times'. The quality of the cartography/art is so dishearteningly poor that it is not worth mentioning. Just do not expect anything remotely similar to National Geographic/The Times graphic quality. All this said, I buy these atlases, in the hope that the publishers will eventualy decide to realy invest in these titles, making a new, wholly improved edition. You can make the same and also get some value for your money.
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