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050 04 $aDT471$b.D33 1966
082 4 $a966
100 1 $aDavidson, Basil,$d1914-
240 10 $aWest Africa 1000-1800
245 12 $aA history of West Africa to the nineteenth century.$bWith F.K. Buah and the advice of J.F. Ade Ajayi.$cMaps by K.C. Jordan.
250 $a[Rev. version].
260 $aGarden City, N.Y.,$bAnchor Books,$c1966.
300 $axvi, 342 p.$bmaps.$c18 cm.
500 $aOriginally published in 1965 under title: West Africa 1000-1800.
504 $aBibliography: p. [327]-332.
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $aIntroduction:$tEarly Times --$tThe background of history --$tAfrica through the ages --$tGeographical divisions of West Africa --$tWay of life of early men --$tEarly peoples of West Africa --$tThe importance of iron --$tEarly states --$tThe sources of historical knowledge -- Pt. 1.$tFive dynamic centuries AD 1000 - 1500 --$tWest Africa in about AD 1000 -- Some general notes --$tThe western region -- Introduction:$tThe sudan --$tEarly trade --$tCrossing the sahara --$tThe empire of Ghana --$tTraditions of origin --$tGrowth of Ghana --$tGovernment of the empire --$tRevenue and wealth of Ghana --$tThe fall of Ghana --$tThe successor states of Ghana --$tThe empire of Mali --$tKangaba --$tSundiata and Mansa Uli --$tMansa kankan Musa --$tDecline of Mali --$tThe peoples of western Guinea --$tThe central region --$tRise of the empire of Songhay --$tTimbuktu and Jenne --$tThe Mossi states --$tDevelopment of the central region of Guinea --$tBono-Manso --$tAlong the coast of modern Ghana --$tThe eastern region I --$tThe empire of kanem-Bornu --$tHausa states --$tThe eastern region II --$tThe Ibo and their neighbours --$tThe Yoruba and Ife --$tThe empire of Benin --$tOba Ewuare --$tNupe and Jukun -- Pt. 2.$tThe civilisation of the sixteenth century AD 1500 - 1600 -- Introduction --$tThe western region in the sixteenth century --$tSenegal, the woloff and Futa Toro --$tTengella Koli and the Denianke --$tFurther decline of Mali --$tWestern Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone --$tThe central region in the sixteenth century --$tGreatness of the empire of Songhay --$tSunni Ali --$tAskia the Great --$tInvasion of Songhay --$tThe states to the south of Songhay --$tTha Akan and their neighbours --$tThe eastern region in the sixteenth century --$tExpansion of the empire of Kanem-Bornu --$tMai Idris Alooma --$tRise of the Hausa states --$tThe Niger delta --$tOyo and Benin --$tThe culture and civilisation of West Africa in the sixteenth century I --$tUnity and continuity --$tHow people lived --$tProduction , trade, and money --$tCities --$tThe culture and civilisation of West Africa in the sixteenth century II --$tEducation and learning --$tReligion and learning --$tThe writers of Timbuktu --$tReligion and art --$tThe organisation of society in the sixteenth century --$tThe stratification of society --$tMasters and servants --$tKinds of service --$tMethods of government --$tKings, nobles, government --$tProfessional armies --$tLaw and order --$tClash of beliefs --$tNew pressures from outside --$tChanges in North Africa: the Turkish empire --$tThe coming of the Europeans to west Africa --$tA new partnership --$tBeginning of the Atlantic slave trade -- Pt. 3.$tThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --$tA period of great change --$tThe sea-merchants --$tEuropean rivalries --$tGrowth of the Atlantic slave trade --$tFirearms --$tCause and effect --$tBenin, Oyo, and the delta states --$tBenin --$tDecline of the empire of Oyo --$tThe delta states --$tGovernment in the delta --$tThe trade of the delta --$tDahomey in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --$tGeneral notes --$tArdrah and Ouidah --$tThe Fon expansion --$tDahomey and Oyo --$tThe Akwamu and their rivals --$tOrigins of the Asante empire --$tAsante, Fante, and Britain --$tWestern Guinea in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --$tGonja, Kong, Bonduku --$tThe Baoule --$tThe coast --$tGambia and Senegal --$tThe Western Sudan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --$tRuin and revival --$tDestruction of Songhay --$tTimbuktu and Jenne --$tNew Niger states: Segu and kaarta --$tMamari Kulibali and Ngolo Diara --$tThe Fulani reforming movement --$tThe western imamates --$tOther reforming movements --$tHausaland and Bornu in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --$tEvents in Hausaland: Katsina and Kano --$tThe Fulani empire: Uthman dan Fodio --$tUthman's ideas --$tMuhammed Bello --$tBornu after Idris Alooma --$tDecline of Bornu --$t1800 and after --$tStrength and weakness --$tThe Atlantic trade: a summing-up --$tThe main consequences in West africa --$tResistance to the slave trade --$tAfricans beyond the seas --$tSierra Leone, Liberia, and the rise of colonialism -- Introduction --$tFounding of Sierra Leone --$tFounding Liberia --$tNew Kinds of trade --$tExplores from Europe --$tRise of colonialism --$tThe past and the futuer.
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