
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 twe...
Series: African Studies (Book 108)
Paperback: 388 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (August 13, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521682975
ISBN-13: 978-0521682978
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 841487
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This book manages to compress an astounding amount of information into 300-odd pages. Anyone who is tempted to apply a broad-brush approach when talking about Africa (for example, dividing the continent arbitrarily into East vs. West, or Anglophone ...
ury 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.