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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Parker; Richard Rathbone |
| ISBN: | 9780192802484 0192802488 |
| OCLC Number: | 76360632 |
| Description: | 165 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm. |
| Contents: | The idea of Africa -- Africans: diversity and unity -- Africa's past: historical sources -- Africa in the world -- Colonialism in Africa -- Imagining the future, rebuilding the past -- Memory and forgetting, past and present. |
| Series Title: | Very short introductions, 160. |
| Responsibility: | John Parker and Richard Rathbone. |
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A very well informed and sharply stated historiography... should be in every historiography student's kitbag. A tour de force... it made me think a great deal. Terence Ranger, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies You will finish this book better informed, with a better understanding of Africa and a clearer idea of the questions. Robert Giddings, Tribune This small book is a smart and stimulating essay exploring issues of history, sources and methods, Africa in the world, colonialism and postcolonialism, and the past in the present as a means of introducing students and others to academic thinking about African history. Tom Spear, Journal of African History Read more...
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