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African World Histories

Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875

Trevor Getz

Series : African World Histories

Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period.

Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural perspectives, Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, helps students to re-envision African societies in the time before colonization.

Readership : Suitable for undergraduate students of modern African history or World History.

Series Introduction
Introduction
1. Ordering their worlds
A Place to begin
Spirit power and state power in Burganda
Xhosa worlds: homestad, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors
Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state
Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies
Imperial Tunis
Reigning in greed and anarchy in BaKongo and Jaga state and society
Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony
2. Global Africa in an oceanic era
An Oceanic era
Mediterranean Africa
Atlantic Africa
Indian Ocean Africa
Feature: The Chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity
3. Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa
African "world" and African "traditional" religions
African Islam in the eighteenth century
African Christianity and Protestant evangelism
Feature: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing
4. African economies and the industrial revolution
Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa
Africans and the industrial revolution
Settlers, peasants, and plantations
Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt
5. Africans write back
Men and women in the middle?
Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam
The Abb, Boilat
James Africanus Horton
The "educated men" of the Fante Confederation
Jan Tzatzoe in Britain
Towards colonialism?

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Trevor Getz is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State. University, where he regularly teaches courses in African and world history. Getz is the author of the monograph, Slavery and Reform in West Africa (2004) and is the co-author of Exchanges: A Reader in Global History (Pearson 2008), and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global History (Pearson 2011). He is extremely active in both the World History Association and the African Studies Association.

Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
African World Histories - Dennis Laumann
Series edited by Trevor Getz
Patterns of World History, Combined Volume - Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers and George B. Stow
Patterns of World History - Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers and George B. Stow
Patterns of World History - Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers and George B. Stow
Abina and the Important Men - Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke

Special Features

Each volume of African World Histories can be used in the world history classroom to help students to think about major global episodes in new ways and from new perspectives.