Africa's Urban Past - Brossura

Rathbone, R.J.A.R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0852557612 ISBN 13: 9780852557617

Casa editrice: James Currey, 2000

Riassunto

Urbanization has been an important feature of Africa's history for over 2000 years. Towns and cities have been arenas around which societies have organized themselves: as centres of trade and economic activity; as foci of political action and authority; as military garrisons; as sites of ritual power; and as places of refuge and collective security in troubled times. This collection reveals the depth of urbanization in African history.

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Recensione

I have seldom read a book which introduced me to so many new things - to so many fresh topics and to so much new research by scholars, many of them young, as well as by established figures such as John Thornton and Robin Law... I found this book almost a course in African Studies in itself. - Terence Ranger in AFRICAN AFFAIRS
The editors provide an excellent introduction which outlines the entire history of African urbanism in eight tightly-written pages, explains the rationale of the book in the context of the state of the art, and places the seventeen studies included here into their broader academic context. - Anthony Lemon in ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
... will definitely be on my undergraduate African History reading list. - David Dorward in ARAS

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: James Currey
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0852557612
• ISBN 13: 9780852557617
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Anderson David M., Rathbone R.J.A.R.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile