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Parker, John; Rathbone, Richard

 
9780192802484: African History: A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN 10: 0192802488 ISBN 13: 9780192802484
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007

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Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specializes in the history of Ghana and is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000) and (with Jean Allman) Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005). He is currently researching a book on the history of death and burial in Ghana.


Richard Rathbone is Honorary Professor of History in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Emeritus Professor in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has written on south and west Africa and his books include Ghana (1992), Murder and politics in colonial Ghana (1993) and Nkrumah and the chiefs (2000). He is currently working on 19th century west African intellectuals.



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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0192802488
ISBN 13 
9780192802484
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
192
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9783068005194: African History

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ISBN 10:  3068005191 ISBN 13:  9783068005194
Casa editrice: Oxford Univ. Press (OELT), 2007
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