MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02617nam a22002778a 4500
001 2008033387
003 DLC
005 20080806151744.0
008 080805s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780765616968 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0765616963 (cloth : alk. paper)
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041 1 $aeng$hfre
043 $af------
050 00 $aDT28$b.C6713 2009
082 00 $a960/.23$222
100 1 $aCoquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine.
240 10 $aAfrique et les Africains au XiXe siècle.$lEnglish
245 10 $aAfrica and the Africans in the nineteenth century :$ba turbulent history /$cby Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch ; translated from the French by Mary Baker.
260 $aArmonk, N.Y. :$bM.E. Sharpe,$c2009.
263 $a0902
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPeople and their environment : Africa's climate and demography -- The perils of rainfall variations -- Population growth and decline -- The ecology of health -- Greater demographic disparities -- Greater mobility -- The inflow of foreigners -- A harsh environment -- Political and warlike Islam : the Maghreb and West Africa before the colonial conquest -- The Maghreb before the conquest -- The western Sudan at the turn of the nineteenth century -- A major focus : trans-Saharan trade -- Jihad and the religious Islam of conquest -- Adrift under western pressure : Samori -- Political and merchant Islam : East Africa -- Modernity as an option : Egypt -- At the crossroads of worlds : Ethiopia -- Old-style colonization : Zanzibar -- In the margins between worlds : Rabih -- Animism's resistance openness and introversion : central-western Africa -- The reformism of the coastal empires -- The peoples of the interior -- The meeting of cultures : Southern Africa -- Upheaval at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- Shaka and the Zulu revolution : revision of an analysis -- Lesotho : colonized bastion -- The English, the Africans, and the Boers : the genesis of segregation -- Colonial intervention -- The beginnings of colonial imperialism in sub-Saharan Africa -- The genesis of colonial government -- The end of colonial conquests -- Resistance -- Algeria, from revolt to colonization -- The century's innovations -- Slavery : a mode of production that had become dominant -- Christianity : the missionary factor in changing mentalities -- Economic and social changes : systems of production and lifestyles -- New social players : gender relations, urbanization -- Culture and the arts.
651 0 $aAfrica$xHistory$y19th century.