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from c. 1790 to c. 1870

Series The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 5

Edited by John E. Flint

Publication Date 1976

Hardback ISBN-10
0521207010

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521207010

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521207010

Overview

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 external pressures than ever before, from European trade, exploration, missionary and political activity, African history in this period moved with greater momentum and larger scale than in past ages, with rapid changes in economic and political life. In general the approach in this volume is through chapters focusing on regions of Africa, each written by an established authority in his field. Concluding chapters sruvey the activities of Europeans in Africa, and those of Africans and their descendants overseas.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
John E. Flint

Egypt and the Nile Valley
by
P. M. Holt

Ethiopia and the Horn
by
Sven Rubenson

The Maghrib
by
Douglas Johnson

The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa
by
M. Hiskett

Freed slave colonies in West Africa
by
Christopher Fyfe

West Africa in the anti-slave trade era
by
J. F. Ade Ajayi and B. O. Ọlọruntimẹhin

The forest and the savanna of Central Africa
by
David Birmingham

East Africa: the expansion of commerce
by
A. C. Unomah and J. B. Webster

The Nguni outburst
by
J. D. Omer-Cooper

Colonial South Africa and its frontiers
by
J. D. Omer-Cooper

Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790–1870
by
Hubert Deschamps

Africans overseas, 1790–1870
by
John E. Flint and I. Geiss

Changing European attitudes to Africa
by
Robin Hallett

Bibliographical Essays

Bibliography

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