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Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa,
the Sudan, and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical
Perspective, based on a series of lectures he gave at Tel Aviv
University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan,
from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early
twentieth century, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence
in 1956, to the violence of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa,
the Sudan, and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical
Perspective, based on a series of lectures he gave at Tel Aviv
University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan,
from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early
twentieth century, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence
in 1956, to the violence of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
An account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on
Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history.
The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as
history, as he examines and explores the hot little towns, sharp
traders and the brutal rulers. He seeks to encourage and inspire a
generation of scholars to discover more about parts of Africa still
surprisingly little known to the outside world.
This is a history of the hydropolitics of the Nile Valley from 1900
to 1988. Attempts to develop the Nile and control its waters are of
vital significance to the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the
Sudan, Ethiopia, and East Africa. Acute drought and heavy flooding
in the Nile Basin have brought disaster in the past, and the
history of the area is the story of human effort to control the
precious waters of the river. Written by Robert O. Collins,
distinguished authority in the field, this highly interdisciplinary
study will appeal to those interested in the environment, politics,
third world development, anthropology, zoology, and economic
history. Robert O. Collins, University of California, Santa
Barbara, was the author Africa: A Short History and Darfur: The
Long Road to Disaster (with J. Millard Burr), as well as many other
titles available from Markus Wiener.
This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its
peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an
overview of African history without getting bogged down in details
and data. This approach is very useful for general readers who seek
to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments, and
for teachers who plan to supplement this text with primary sources
depending on the emphasis of the course.
This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a
first-century merchant's guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean
ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes,
China's discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court
life in inner East and West Africa, and the experiences of Asian
and European settlers, merchants, and colonialists. There are
writings by important local authorities and scholars as well as
travelers and administrators from other continents. The ideas of
leaders who shaped modern Africa are represented in the documents
of Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Steven Biko, and Nelson Mandela.
Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th
centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence
and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave
traders on these blossoming African states. Included are reports by
Portugese and English discoverers and missionaries, such as
Livingston and Stanley, as well as documents about the colonial
history of the Belgian Congo, Angola, and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which
centuries later mirrorred the kingdoms of Zimbabwe and the
Mwanamutapa. Texts on the post-colonial period include the writings
of Patrice Lumumba. The South African section contains documents
about native people and the first Dutch settlement in the
seventeenth century, including the introduction of slavery;
conflicts between settlers and British missionaries as well as with
the native states; white conquest; Boer history and myths; British
colonial policy; the discovery of diamonds and gold; and apartheid.
The new political era includes the early writings of Nelson
Mandela.
Covering the major problems in the field, this text offers the full
spectrum of emotionally charged theories, presenting conflicting
arguments that illustrate the ongoing debates on what are
controversial issues, such as the origins of African history &
Africa's contributions to a non-Western world history.
Updated 2013 Edition of the Classic Reader by Robert O. Collins.
This collection covers the major problems in the field,
incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent
controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's
contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise:
Africa and Egypt African Trade and States Islam in Africa Women in
African Societies Slavery in Africa.
This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with
the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park,
Heinrich Barth, Rene Caille, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many
others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers such as Abd
Allah ibn Muhammad and Al-Kanami, Sire Abbas Soh, and Ahmadu
Hampate Ba. The trans-Saharan and cross-Atlantic slave trades are a
central concern of the book and the French and British colonial
periods are also scrutinized. Modern times are examined in the
texts of Nnamidi Azikiwe, Leopold Senghor, Sekou Toure, and Kwame
Nkrumah. Special emphasis is placed on original African texts about
political traditions, independence movements after WWII, the law,
and other themes of social and political history. The African
History in Documents series also features: Volume II: Eastern
African History and Volume III: Central and South African History.
The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to
provide an accessible introduction to the continent's history for
students and general readers. The authors employ a thematic
approach to their subject, focusing on how the environment has
shaped the societies and cultures of the African peoples. The text
demonstrates how the geography, climate and geology of Africa
influenced the rise of states and empires, the emergence of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, the European conquest and the creation
of independent African nations. Yet the book maintains a focus on
the peoples whose creative energies built unique communities and
traditions within the challenging context of the Africa landmass.
In the process of reconstructing this continent's rich history, the
authors analyze the contentious scholarly debates that have emerged
from this field. The book is illustrated with photographs, maps and
sidebars that feature the salient points on either side of the
debates.
This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its
peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an
overview of African history without getting bogged down in details
and data. This approach is very useful for general readers who seek
to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments, and
for teachers who plan to supplement this text with primary sources
depending on the emphasis of the course.
This collection covers the major problems in the field, including
classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about
the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to
non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt;
Bantu Origins and Migration; African States and Trade; Islam in
Africa; Women in African Societies; and, Slavery in Africa.
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the anterior part of the frontal
lobes of the brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas
and has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behavior,
personality expression, decision making and moderating social
behaviour. In this book, the authors discuss the developmental
differences, executive and cognitive functions and role in
neurological disorders relating to the functioning of the
prefrontal cortex. Topics include developmental long-chain omega-3
fatty acid deficiency and prefrontal cortex pathology in
psychiatric disorders; addiction and the prefrontal cortex;
cognitive functioning and prefrontal cortex damage in children and
adolescents; prefrontal cortex dysfunction and neurocognitive
deficits in schizophrenia; and the developmental relationship
between executive function and the prefrontal cortex in young
children.
This personal diary of six months of diplomacy and travel in Arabia
represents and impressive document to the quiet ability and
resourcefulness of one of Great Britain's leading officials in the
Middle East in the 1920's. The sudden expansion of the
Arabian Sultanate of Najd under the leadership of 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn
Sa'ud after the First World War presented a clear danger to British
interests in the Middle East and threatened the strategically
important Arabian corridor to India. To resolve this project the
British government selected Sir Gilbert Clayton as their envoy to
negotiate a settlement of differences and to determine the frontier
between Saudi Arabia and the British Mandates of Trans-Jordan and
Iraq. Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (1875-1929) was a quiet,
able soldier, administrator, and diplomat who had come out to eh
Middle East during the reconquest of the Sudan and remained as a
political officer in theSudan service, secretary to the
Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and finally
the Sudan agent at Cairo. At the outbreak of the First World War,
Clayton served as the director of Military Intelligence an forged
that remarkable intelligence team which included among others
Leonard Woolley, George Lloyd, and T.E. Lawrence. Experience and
resourceful, Clayton was an obvious choice to travel to the tents
of Iban Sa'ud where the autumn of 1925 he negotiated the Bahra and
Hadda Agreements fixing the frontiers of Saudi Arabia with
Trans-Jordan and Iraq and cementing friendship between Britain and
Ibn Sa'ud. These results represent a brilliant triumph of personal
diplomacy which protected British interests and inaugurated the
lifelong friendship between Sir Gilbert and Ibn Sa'ud. The
story of these negotiations and Sir Gilbert's subsequent mission to
the Imam of Yemen as the first official representative of the
British government to visit San'a' are told in this valuable
historical diary. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1969.Â
This personal diary of six months of diplomacy and travel in Arabia
represents and impressive document to the quiet ability and
resourcefulness of one of Great Britain's leading officials in the
Middle East in the 1920's. The sudden expansion of the Arabian
Sultanate of Najd under the leadership of 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud
after the First World War presented a clear danger to British
interests in the Middle East and threatened the strategically
important Arabian corridor to India. To resolve this project the
British government selected Sir Gilbert Clayton as their envoy to
negotiate a settlement of differences and to determine the frontier
between Saudi Arabia and the British Mandates of Trans-Jordan and
Iraq. Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (1875-1929) was a quiet, able
soldier, administrator, and diplomat who had come out to eh Middle
East during the reconquest of the Sudan and remained as a political
officer in theSudan service, secretary to the Governor-General of
the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and finally the Sudan agent at
Cairo. At the outbreak of the First World War, Clayton served as
the director of Military Intelligence an forged that remarkable
intelligence team which included among others Leonard Woolley,
George Lloyd, and T.E. Lawrence. Experience and resourceful,
Clayton was an obvious choice to travel to the tents of Iban Sa'ud
where the autumn of 1925 he negotiated the Bahra and Hadda
Agreements fixing the frontiers of Saudi Arabia with Trans-Jordan
and Iraq and cementing friendship between Britain and Ibn Sa'ud.
These results represent a brilliant triumph of personal diplomacy
which protected British interests and inaugurated the lifelong
friendship between Sir Gilbert and Ibn Sa'ud. The story of these
negotiations and Sir Gilbert's subsequent mission to the Imam of
Yemen as the first official representative of the British
government to visit San'a' are told in this valuable historical
diary. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek
out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach,
and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again
using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally
published in 1969.
The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to
provide an accessible introduction to the continent's history for
students and general readers. The authors employ a thematic
approach to their subject, focusing on how the environment has
shaped the societies and cultures of the African peoples. The text
demonstrates how the geography, climate and geology of Africa
influenced the rise of states and empires, the emergence of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, the European conquest and the creation
of independent African nations. Yet the book maintains a focus on
the peoples whose creative energies built unique communities and
traditions within the challenging context of the Africa landmass.
In the process of reconstructing this continent's rich history, the
authors analyze the contentious scholarly debates that have emerged
from this field. The book is illustrated with photographs, maps and
sidebars that feature the salient points on either side of the
debates.
In the newest version of his ""Problems"" books, Professor Collins
presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa
such as: Decolonization and the End of Empire; Democracy and the
Nation-State; Epidemics in Africa: The Human and Financial Costs;
Development: Failure or Success; The African Environment: Origins
of a Crisis; and, Return of the Empires?
Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil
war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as
a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions
between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and
south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins,
a frequent visitor and veteran scholar of the region, traces
Sudan's history across two hundred years to show how many of the
tragedies of today have been planted in its past. The story begins
with the conquest of Muhammad 'Ali in 1821, and moves through the
Anglo-Egyptian condominium to independence in 1956. It then focuses
on Sudanese rule in the post-independence years when the fragile
democracy established by the British collapsed under sectarian
strife. It is these religious and ethnic divides, the author
contends, in conjunction with failed leadership, which have
prolonged and sustained the conflict in Sudan.
Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil
war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as
a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions
between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and
south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins,
a frequent visitor and veteran scholar of the region, traces
Sudan's history across two hundred years to show how many of the
tragedies of today have been planted in its past. The story begins
with the conquest of Muhammad 'Ali in 1821, and moves through the
Anglo-Egyptian condominium to independence in 1956. It then focuses
on Sudanese rule in the post-independence years when the fragile
democracy established by the British collapsed under sectarian
strife. It is these religious and ethnic divides, the author
contends, in conjunction with failed leadership, which have
prolonged and sustained the conflict in Sudan.
This volume covers three thousand years of African history
beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and
Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes, including China's
discovery of Africa; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic
slave trade; kingdoms and court life in inner east Africa; and the
appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and
colonialists. The authors of the texts include important local
authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators
from Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, India, and China. Modern times
are considered in the documents of Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya, Milton
Obote, and Julius Nyerere. The African History in Documents series
also features: Volume I: West African History Volume III: Central
and South African History
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