Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of California Press, 1992 - 1045 strán (strany) The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography. This fifth volume of the acclaimed series covers the history of the continent from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the close of the eighteenth century in which two themes emerge: first, the continuing internal evolution of the states and cultures of Africa during this period second, the increasing involvement of Africa in external trade--with major but unforeseen consequences for the whole world. In North Africa, we see the Ottomans conquer Egypt. South of the Sahara, some of the larger, older states collapse, and new power bases emerge. Traditional religions continue to coexist with both Christianity (suffering setbacks) and Islam (in the ascendancy). Along the coast, particularly of West Africa, Europeans establish a trading network which, with the development of New World plantation agriculture, becomes the focus of the international slave trade. The immediate consequences of this trade for Africa are explored, and it is argued that the long-term global consequences include the foundation of the present world-economy with all its built-in inequalities. |
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African political economic and social structures during this | 23 |
Population movements and emergence of new sociopolitical forms | 46 |
the export slave trade from Africa and | 74 |
The African diaspora in the Old and New Worlds | 113 |
The Ottoman conquest of Egypt | 137 |
The Sudan 15001800 | 170 |
Morocco | 200 |
the Ottomans and their heirs | 233 |
its relations with the Mediterranean Sea Bagirmi | 492 |
From the Cameroon grasslands to the Upper Nile | 515 |
The Kongo kingdom and its neighbours | 546 |
its emergence | 588 |
The northern ZambeziaLake Malawi region | 608 |
Southern Zambezia | 640 |
Southern Africa | 683 |
The Horn of Africa | 703 |
evolution | 262 |
The end of the Songhay empire | 300 |
From the Niger to the Volta | 327 |
The states and cultures of the Upper Guinean coast | 368 |
The states and cultures of the Lower Guinean coast | 399 |
the Niger delta and the Cameroon | 434 |
The Hausa states | 453 |
the coast | 750 |
The Great Lakes region 15001800 | 776 |
the peoples of Kenya and Tanzania | 828 |
Madagascar and the islands of the Indian Ocean | 849 |
Biographies of Authors | 908 |
Glossary | 963 |
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