000			02238cam a2200325 a 4500
653			_aHistory, Geography and Archaeology التاريخ والجغرافيا والآثار
942			_cBK _h900 _iGD31
999			_c32741 _d32740
001			31166752
003			OCoLC
005			20240903141837.0
008			940907s1995 enkb b 001 0 eng
010			_a94036698
013			_d1995
020			_a0521482356 _qhardback
020			_a9780521482356
020			_a0521484227 _qpaperback
020			_a9780521484220
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dYAM _dUKM _dUBA _dOCLCQ _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dOCLCQ _dZWZ _dTULIB _dVOC _dOCLCF
041			_aeng
043			_af------
050	0	0	_aDT20 _b.I45 1995
100	1		_aJohn Iliffe
245	1	0	_aAfricans: The History of A Continent
260			_aUSA _bCambridge University Press _c1995
300			_axi, 323 _bmaps _c25 cm
505	0		_aThe frontiersmen of mankind -- The emergence of food-producing communities -- The impact of metals -- Christianity and Islam -- Colonising society in western Africa -- Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- Colonial invasion -- Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- Independent Africa -- Industrialisation and race in South Africa.
520			_aThis is a history of Africa from the origins of mankind right up to the South African general election of 1994. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature in an overwhelmingly hostile environment, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. Thus Iliffe depicts the history of the continent as a single story, binding today's Africans to the earliest human ancestors. --Publishers description.
630			_lEnglish
650			_aGeneral