| Edition |
Softcover ed. |
| Description |
xii, 532 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What is African history? / John Edward Philips -- Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech Mcintosh -- Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehert -- Physical anthropology and African history / S.O.Y. Keita -- The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian -- Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige -- Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper -- Arabic sources for African history / John Thornton -- European documents and African history / John Thornton -- Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola -- Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert -- African economic history: approaches to research / Masao Yoshida -- Signs of time, shapes of thought: the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal -- Methodologies in Yoruba oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre L. Badejo -- Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi -- Africa and world-systems analysis: a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin -- "What Africa has given America": African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway -- History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu -- Writing about women: approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon -- Writing African history / John Edward Philips. |
| Subject |
Africa -- Historiography.
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Africa -- History.
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| Added Author |
Philips, John Edward, 1952-
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| ISBN |
1580462561 ($30.00) |
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9781580462563 ($30.00) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2472451 |
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