- Paperback: 433 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (May 15 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312125984
- ISBN-13: 978-0312125981
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 18.9 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 721 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #870,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 30 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.
- 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.
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"A work with many virtues...stylistic lucidity, profusion of clear maps and excellent illustrations."--International Journal of African Historical Studies
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful,
By Sancho Mahle (Charlotte, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Africa, Revised Edition (Paperback)
A remarkable book about Africa that takes you into time, written by an author who has a balanced judgment of the land, its past, its people , their strength and their weaknesses as well as the irrepressible forces that are the continent's future.Also recommended: Disciples of fortune, Africans and Their History, Triple Agent Double Cross, The usurper and Other stories
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Insightful,
By Sancho Mahle (Charlotte, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Africa, Revised Edition (Paperback)
A remarkable book about Africa that takes you into time, written by an author who has a balanced judgment of the land, its past, its people , their strength and their weaknesses as well as the irrepressible forces that are the continent's future.Also recommended: Disciples of fortune, Africans and Their History, Triple Agent Double Cross, The usurper and Other stories
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A Good Analysis of Africa,
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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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