McKenna Amy. The History of Northern Africa (ENG)

формат pdf
размер 4.44 МБ
добавлен 28 сентября 2011 г.

Britannica, 2011 - 200 p. ISBN10: 1615303979

Alteately identified with either the countries of the Mediterranean, those of the Middle East, or other African territories, the nations of northe Africa occupy a unique physical and historical place. After centuries of fielding various foreign invaders, northe Africans have absorbed and co-opted Greek, Roman, and Arab peoples and traditions, among others. Under the pervasive turmoil that has ensued after colonial rule and inteecine warfare, readers will encounter a region of various traditions that stands at a unique crossroads between several very different worlds.

Похожие разделы

Смотрите также

Clark J.D. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B.C

формат pdf
размер 59.6 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1982. - 1173 рр. Volume 1 of The Cambrigde History of Africa provides the first relatively complete and authoritative survey of African prehistory from the time of the first hominids in the Plio-Pleistone up to the spread of iron technology after c.500 B.C. The volume therefore sets the stage for the history of the continent contained in the subsequent volumes. The material remains of past human life recovered by exca...

Crowder M. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 8: From c. 1940 to c. 1975

формат pdf
размер 50.43 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1985. - 1027 рр. The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-1975. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up th...

Davidson Basil. A History of West Africa, 1000-1800

формат pdf
размер 50.46 МБ
добавлен 20 января 2012 г.

Longman Group United Kingdom, 1978 - 336 p. This text is designed for students preparing for O Level history, offering an examination of some of the major trends and events in West African history from AD 1000-1800. ISBN10: 0582603404 ISBN13: 9780582603400 (eng)

Fage J.D. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 2: From c. 500 BC to AD 1050

формат pdf
размер 46.05 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1979. - 858 рр. After the prehistory of Volume 1, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Africa deals with the beginnings of history. It is about 500 B.C. that historical sources begin to embrace all Africa north of the Sahara and, by the end of the period, documentation is also beginning to appear for parts of sub-Saharan Africa. North of the Sahara, this situation arises since Africans were sharing in the major civili...

Flint J.E. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 5: From c. 1790 to c. 1870

формат pdf
размер 30.64 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1977. - 748 рр. The period covered in this volume is one which begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest. But except for white conquests in Algeria and South Africa, and colonies of free Blacks on the west coast, the theme is that of African independence, initiative and adaptation in the last phase of its pre-colonial history. Under greater ext...

Gray R. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 4: From c. 1600 to c. 1790

формат pdf
размер 39.72 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1975. - 752 рр. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Africa were a period of transition, with the trade in slaves and firearms on the Atlantic coast laying some of the foundations for European colonialism. But for most of the continent, external forces were still of marginal significance. African initiative remained supreme and produced a rich variety of political, social and intellectual innovations. In eight...

Harrison G. Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering (ENG)

формат pdf
размер 1.75 МБ
добавлен 19 сентября 2011 г.

Zed Books, 2010 - 192 p. ISBN10: 1848133197 ISBN13: 9781848133198 This book looks at thirty years of Neoliberalism in Africa. Not merely an economic shock or a quick process of "structural adjustment," Neoliberalism has been a historic shift in Africa's development politics and policy. As an ideology, Neoliberalism looks beyond the mere market economy towards a market society. In the context of thirty years of projects, aid disbursement, technic...

Oliver R. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3: From c. 1050 to c. 1600

формат pdf
размер 46.03 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1977. - 816 рр. The five and a half centuries described in this volume were those in which Iron Age cultures passed from their early and experimental phases into stages of maturity characterized by long-distance trade and complex, many-tiered political systems. In Egypt and North Africa it was a period of religious and cultural consolidation when the Arabic language and the faith of Islam were adopted by the majority...

Oliver R., Sanderson G.N. The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6: From 1870 to 1905

формат pdf
размер 45.65 МБ
добавлен 15 ноября 2011 г.

Cambridge University Press, 1985. - 956 рр. Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts of land and valuable mineral resources. At the same time, it was a period during which much of Africa still had a history of its own. Colonial governments wer...

Ross Robert, Mager Anne Kelk, Nasson Bill. The Cambridge History of South Africa (Volume 2)

формат pdf
размер 6.58 МБ
добавлен 30 января 2012 г.

Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 744 p. This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social, and intellectual develop...