| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 470 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Originally published: The civilizations of Africa. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing Africa and its history -- Africa before the agricultural age, 19,000-9500 BCE -- Culture and technology in Africa, 9500-3500 BCE -- Diverging paths of history : Africa 3500-1000 BCE -- An age of commerce, an age of iron : Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE -- Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- Northeastern, West, and North Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- The early Atlantic age, 1450-1640 -- Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800. |
| Subject |
Africa -- Civilization.
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Africa -- History.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780813928807 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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081392880X (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40026256996 |
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