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• Title:A history of African societies to 1870 / Elizabeth Isichei.
  
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• Author/Creator:Isichei, Elizabeth Allo.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN645 .I84 1997
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Ethnology--Africa.
  Africa--History.
  Africa--Social life and customs.
  
• Description:viii, 578 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [456]-569) and index.
  
• ISBN:0521454441 (hardback)
  0521455995 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Continental perspectives
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  1. Prelude: Africa and the historians
  2. Out of Africa: the precursors
  3. Environment, language and art c. 10,000 - c. 500 BCE
  4. Producing more food c. 10,000 - c. 500 BCE
  5. Copper and iron c. 600 BCE to c. 1000 CE
  6. Models: production, power and gender
  Pt. II. Regional histories to the sixteenth century
  7. Central Africa
  8. Eastern Africa
  9. Africa south of the Limpopo
  10. Northern Africa to the seventh century CE
  11. Northern Africa from the seventh century CE
  12. North-East
  13. Western Sudan
  14. West Africa: from the savanna to the sea
  Pt. III. Regional histories to c. 1870
  15. Northern Africa
  16. Western Sudan in a time of jihad
  17. Eastern and Central Sudan
  18. Atlantic slave trade
  19. West Africa to 1800
  20. West Africa 1800 to 1870
  21. Central Africa
  22. Southern Africa
  23. East and East Central Africa.