Description
Contents
Chapter 1. Out of Africa
Part 1. Africa in the Old World: Early Times to 1500 CE
Chapter 2. Food Revolutions and Frontier Societies: 8000 BCE to 1000 CE
Chapter 3. Imperial Power and Religious Revolutions in the Mediterranean World, 800 BCE–1500 CE
Chapter 4. Cities of Gold: The West African Sahel and the East African Coast, 800–1600
Part 2. Africa in the Age of Global War Capitalism, 1500–1800
Chapter 5. Atlantic Africa and the Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450–1700
Chapter 6. Expansionist States and Decentralized Power in Atlantic Africa, 1700–1807
Chapter 7. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Shores, 1500–1800
Part 3. Africa in the Age of the Great Divergence: 1800–1870
Chapter 8. Economic and Political Upheavals in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 9. Religious Movements and State-Building Strategies in the Nineteenth Century
Part 4. Africa in the Age of the New Imperialism, 1870–1940
Chapter 10. The Colonial Partition of Africa, 1870–1918
Chapter 11. The Consolidation of Colonialism, 1914–1940
Chapter 12. Social and Cultural Change under High Colonialism, 1914–1940
Part 5. Africa in the Age of the Cold War, 1940–1990
Chapter 13. Late Colonialism: Development and Change, 1940–1965
Chapter 14. Struggles for Independence, 1940–1965
Chapter 15. Africa in a Bipolar World, 1965–1990
Part 6. Africa in the Age of the Great Convergence, 1990–2015
Chapter 16. Africa in a Multi-Polar World, 1990–2015