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The Cambridge history of Africa : from c.1790 to c.1870

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. In general the approach in this volume is through chapters focusing on regions of Africa, each written by an established authority in the field.
Print Book, English, 1976
Cambridge University Press, London, 1976
History
617 pages
9780521207010, 0521207010
18285444
Introduction John E. Flint; 1. Egypt and the Nile valley P. M. Holt; 2. Ethiopia and the Horn Sven Rubenson; 3. The Maghrib Douglas Johnson; 4. The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa M. Hiskett; 5. Freed slave colonies in West Africa Christopher Fyfe; 6. West Africa in the anti-slave trade era J. F. Ade Ajayi, and B. O. Oloruntimehin; 7. The forest and the savanna of Central Africa David Birmingham; 8. East Africa: the expansion of commerce A. C. Unomah, and J. B. Webster; 9. The Nguni outburst J. D. Omer-Cooper; 10. Colonial South Africa and its frontiers J. D. Omer-Cooper; 11. Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790–1870 Hubert Deschamps; 12. Africans overseas, 1790–1870 John E. Flint, and I. Geiss; 13. Changing European attitudes to Africa Robin Hallett; Bibliographical essays; Bibliography; Index.