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Approaching African History (Hardcover)
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Approaching African History (Hardcover)
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Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed
over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the
past 10,000 years. Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more
habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history
immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic
discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old.
Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question of
what this history is and how it has been approached still needs to
be asked, not least to answer the question of why should we study
it. This book takes as its subject the last 10,000 years of African
history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent
has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the
complex populations of today. Approaching that history through its
various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic, written,
scriptural, European and contemporary, it looks at how the history
of such a vast region over such a length of time has been conceived
and presented, and how it is to be investigated. The problem itself
is historical, and an integral part of the history with which it is
concerned, beginning with the changing awareness over the centuries
of what Africa might be. MichaelBrett thus traces the history of
Africa not only on the ground, but also in the mind, in order to
make his own historical contribution to the debate. Michael Brett
is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS.
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