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Approaching African History
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- 作 者：Michael Brett
- 出 版 社：James Currey
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- I S B N：9781847010636
- 页 数：334
- 所 属 分 类： 非洲史
- 供 货 周 期: 6
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Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet its study as an academic discipline in its own right is only just over fifty years old. The subject has since grown enormously, but the questions of how we approach African history still need to be asked: What is this history And, why and how should we study it This book takes as its subject the last 1, years of African history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the complex populations of today. Approaching that history from archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural, and European dimensions, and finally the present dimension, it also looks at how the history of such a vast region over such a length of time has been presented, and how this history is to be conceived of as well as investigated. The problem itself is historical and an integral part of the history with which it is concerned, the changing awareness over the centuries of what Africa might be. Michael Brett thus traces the history of Africa not only on the ground, but also in the mind, in order to make its own historical contribution to the debate. Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS.
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