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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History By John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

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Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa.

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History Reviews

the Handbook will be of major interest to both teachers of African history and the curious general reader. And since most essays include sections on 'future directions' and subjects ripe for further investigations, prospective researchers, too, have reasons to be grateful for the appearance of this timely addition to the Oxford Handbooks series. * Giacomo Macola, History Today *
the volume's essays offer a fascinating panorama of the landscape of African history as it is today: in many ways a vibrant picture of the breadth and subtlety of research. The essays often impress with their grasp of the continent as a whole, and in their coverage of interactions between politics, society, and culture ... an invaluable addition to an outstanding series. * Tim Livsey, Journal of Historical Geography *
set to be a great success. * Miles Larmer, English Historical Review *

About John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana. Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: KEY THEMES IN AFRICAN HISTORY; PART TWO: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER; PART THREE: RELIGION AND BELIEF; PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY; PART FIVE: ARTS AND THE MEDIA

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
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2016-10-06
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