A History of Modern Africa by Richard J Reid
A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent. * Stresses the diversity of Africa's rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs * Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond * Puts the colonial era into proper perspective in relation to events that occurred before it and since * Wide-ranging in scope, it provides a framework for understanding such events as the genocidal horrors of Rwanda and the recent troubles in Zimbabwe and Kenya
A number of introductions to African history aimed at the undergraduate and general reader have appeared in recent yearsReid's text stands out among these as an invaluable teaching-tool due to its concise but appealing tone, its clear style, and its sensitive treatment of Africa's often tumultuous past and contested present-day experiences. This is an excellent introduction to Africa for the student reader. (History, 2010)This book stands as a remarkable achievement andwill be the choice volume on modern African history for some time to come. (International Affairs, April 2010)
Richard Reid is Lecturer in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Welfare in the Nineteenth Century (2002), and War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), as well as numerous articles on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of east and northeast Africa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405132657 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405132655 |
| Title | A History of Modern Africa |
| Author | Richard J Reid |
| Series | Wiley Blackwell Concise History Of The Modern World |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Year published | 2008-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
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