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A History of Modern Africa

By - Reid Richard J.
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, ©2012
ISBN 10 - 0470658983
ISBN 13 - 9780470658987
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Africa History
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 960.3 REI 2012
Edition - 2nd ed.
Physical Description - xvi, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Notes - Includes index
Book Information
Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

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