A History of African Societies to 1870

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Acknowledgements
Part I. Continental Perspectives: Perimeters:
1. Prelude: Africa and the historians
2. Out of Africa: the precursors
3. Environment, language and art c. 10,000–c. 500 BCE
4. Producing more food c. 10,000–c. 500 BCE 5. Copper and iron c. 600 BCE–c. 1000 CE
6. Models: Production, Power and Gender
Part II. Regional Histories to the Sixteenth Century:
7. Central Africa
8. East Africa
9. Africa south of the Limpopo
10. Northern Africa in antiquity
11. Northern Africa from the seventh century CE
12. The North-East
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The Western Sudan
14. West Africa: from the savanna to the sea
Part III. Regional Historis to c. 1870:
15. Northern Africa
16. The Western Sudan
17. The Central Sudan
18. The Atlantic slave trade
19. West Africa to 1870
21. Central Africa
22. Southern Africa
23. East and East Central Africa Maps:
1. Human evolution: archaeological sites
2. African language families
3. Bantu Languages
4. Cradles of domestication
5. Central Africa
6. Eastern Africa
7. South Africa
8. Northern Africa in antiquity
9. Northern Africa (seventh to twelfth centuries)
10. Egypt and the Near East: Fatimids and Mamluks
11. The North-East
12. The Western Sudan (to c. 1600)
13. Lower Guinea
14. The Western and Central Sudan: the nineteenth century
15. Southern Africa: the nineteenth century 16. East and Central Africa: the nineteenth century. Diagrams:
1. Human evolution
2. Long-term climate change
3. African language families: Afroasiatic
4. African language families: Nilo-Saharan
5. African language families: Kordofanian and Niger-Congo.

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