The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 5J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver 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 survey the activities of Europeans in Africa, and those of Africans and their descendants overseas. |
Contents
Egypt and the Nile valley page | 12 |
Egypt and the Nile valley | 13 |
Ethiopia and the Horn ཌ | 51 |
Ethiopia and the Horn in the early nineteenth century 523 | 52 |
Ethiopia in the Zamana Mesafent | 59 |
Galla kingdoms | 84 |
The Maghrib | 99 |
The EthioEgyptian conflict 901 | 100 |
The Nguni outburst | 319 |
Approximate directions of main movements in the Mfecane in southern Africa | 320 |
Colonial South Africa and its frontiers | 353 |
Colonial South Africa and its frontiers | 354 |
Tradition and change in Madagascar 17901870 | 393 |
Madagascar in the eighteenth century | 395 |
the beginnings of unity | 399 |
Merina expansion | 401 |
The nineteenthcentury jihads in West Africa | 125 |
West Africa c 1865 | 127 |
West Africa in the antislave trade era | 200 |
West Africa in the nineteenth century 1723 | 215 |
The forest and the savanna of Central Africa | 222 |
Central Africa 2245 | 260 |
the expansion of commerce | 270 |
ΙΟ East Africa | 281 |
late eighteenth to mid | 293 |
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