A history of the African people / Robert W. July.

Author/creator July, Robert William
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIllinois : Waveland Press, Inc., c1998.
Description1 online resource (xvi, 658 p.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1677555
Subjects
Africa--History.

Contents Part 1: Ancient Africa -- The Beginnings of African History -- Africa in the Ancient World -- The States of the Western and Central Sudan -- The Cosmopolitan World of East Africa -- The West African Forest Civilization -- The Great Migrations -- The Coming of Europe -- Part II: Revolutionary Africa -- The Genesis of Modern Africa -- Religion and Empire in Western and Central Sudan -- The Eastern Sudan--Egyptian Expansionism and the Mahdist Revolution -- Population Explosions in Southern Africa -- West Africa and Europe's Humanitarian Revolution -- Commerce and Statecraft in Eastern and Central Africa -- Part III: Colonial Africa -- The Partition of Africa -- Early Nationalist Stirrings in West Africa -- The Foundations of Progress and Poverty in Southern Africa -- Colonialism and Nation Making in East Africa -- Between Two World Wars-- Nationalist Frustrations in West Africa -- In the Heart of Darkness -- The Two Societies of Southern Africa -- Part IV: Independent Africa -- Toward Independence -- Independence Economics -- States and Nations --Disintegrating Citadels in the South -- African Cultural Independence--Ideals and Complexities.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageThis edition in English.