The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History 1st Edition by John Parker, Richard Reid ISBN 978-0198779407 0198779407

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Author: John Parker, Richard Reid
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa – a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa’s current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects – political, economic, social, and cultural – of the continent’s history over the last two hundred years.

Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa’s past.

Table of contents: 

1. Ecology and Environment
2. Demography and Disease
3. African Slave Trades in Global Perspective
4. States and Statelessness
5. Ethnicity and Identity
6. Warfare and the Military
7. The African Diaspora
PART II: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER
8. African Colonial States
9. Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa
10. Work and Migration
11. Chieftaincy
12. Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization
PART III: RELIGION AND BELIEF
13. Islam
14. Christianity
15. Indigenous African Religions
16. New Religious Movements
PART IV: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
17. Education and Literacy
18. Women and Gender
19. Urbanization and Urban Cultures
20. Health and Healing
21. Youth
22. Economic Growth
PART V: ARTS AND THE MEDIA
23. Visual Cultures
24. Music in Modern African History
25. African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures
26. Communications and Media in African History

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