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Themes in West Africa's history

There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines
eBook, English, 2006
Ohio University ; James Currey ; Woeli Pub. Services, Athens, Oxford, England, Accra, 2006
History
1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780821445662, 9781782049777, 0821445669, 1782049770
745696019
Introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong I Paths To A West African Past - The Holocene prehistory of West Africa: 10,000-1000 BP by Susan Keech McIntosh - Ecology & culture in West Africa by James L. A. Webb Jr. - Linguistics & history in West Africa by M. E. Kropp Dakubu - Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding peoples of West Africa by David Conrad II Perspectives On Environment, Society, Agency & Historical Change - Slavery & slave trade in West Africa, 1450-1930 by Patrick Manning - Class, caste & social inequality in West African history by Ismail Rashid - Religious interactions in pre-20th century West Africa by Pash Obeng - Poverty in pre-colonial & colonial West Africa: perception, causes & alleviation by Ogbu U. Kalu - Disease in West African History by Emmanuel Akyeampong - Urbanization in colonial & post-colonial West Africa by Andreas Eckert III Understanding Contemporary West Africa Through Religion & Political Economy - Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & structural adjustment: an episode in West African economic history by Celestin Monga - Ethnicity, conflict & the state in contemporary West Africa by Cyril Daddieh - Pentecostalism, Islam & culture: new religious movements in West Africa by Brian Larkin & Birgit Meyer
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011