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In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. John Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of St. John's College. He is the author of several books on Africa, including A modern history of Tanganyika and The African poor: A history, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association of the United States. Both books were published by Cambridge University Press.
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Africans : the history of a continent, John Iliffe
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- Titel
- Africans : the history of a continent
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Iliffe
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0521682975
- ISBN13
- 9780521682978
- Reihe
- Kuratierte Auswahl
- African studies series
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Schule, Afrika, Anthropologie, Kulturgeschichte, Kolonialismus
- Bewertung
- 3,45 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. John Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of St. John's College. He is the author of several books on Africa, including A modern history of Tanganyika and The African poor: A history, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association of the United States. Both books were published by Cambridge University Press.