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Print Price: $252.00

Format:
Hardback
544 pp.
6 b/w maps, 171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199572472

Publication date:
November 2013

Imprint: OUP UK

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid

Series : Oxford Handbooks in History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years.

Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.

Readership : Suitable for academics, students, and general readers with an interest in African history.

Richard Reid and John Parker: Introduction African Histories: Past, Present, and Future
Part One: KEY THEMES IN AFRICAN HISTORY
1. James McCann: Ecology and Environment
2. Shane Doyle: Demography and Disease
3. Pier M. Larson: African Slave Trades in Global Perspective
4. Walter Hawthorne: States and Statelessness
5. Richard Waller: Ethnicity and Identity
6. Richard Reid: Warfare and the Military
7. John Parker: The African Diaspora
Part Two: THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER
8. Heather J. Sharkey: African Colonial States
9. Richard Roberts: Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa
10. Emily Lynn Osborn: Work and Migration
11. Justin Willis: Chieftaincy
12. Jean Allman: Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization
Part Three: RELIGION AND BELIEF
13. Marie Miran-Guyon and Jean-Louis Triaud: Islam
14. David Maxwell: Christianity
15. Robert M. Baum: Indigenous African Religions
16. Sean Hanretta: New Religious Movements
Part Four: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
17. Carol Summers: Education and Literacy
18. Barbara M. Cooper: Women and Gender
19. John Parker: Urbanization and Urban Cultures
20. Nancy Rose Hunt: Health and Healing
21. Nicolas Argenti and Deborah Durham: Youth
22. Morten Jerven: Economic Growth
Part Five: ARTS AND THE MEDIA
23. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir: Visual Cultures
24. Veit Erlmann: Music in Modern African History
25. Stephanie Newell: African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures
26. James R. Brennan: Communications and Media

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John Parker teaches African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra (2000); Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (2005; with Jean Allman); and African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007; with Richard Rathbone). He is currently conducting research on the history of death and the end of life in Ghana. Richard Reid is Professor of the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of several books, including Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present (2009; 2012), Frontiers of Violence in Northeast Africa (2011), and Warfare in African History (2012). He is the editor of Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding its Regional Role and Foreign Policy (2009), and has written a number of articles on various aspects of violence and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. His work has focused particularly on the history of warfare and military culture in Africa; now he is researching historical consciousness and culture in Uganda. Professor Reid is also an editor of the Journal of African History.

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