{"product_id":"a-history-of-modern-africa-1800-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9781119381921","title":"A History of Modern Africa; 1800 to the Present (Paperback \/ softback) 9781119381921","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Modern Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e1800 to the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard J. Reid (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119381921, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16.3 x 3 cm, 0.726 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new, fully-updated edition of the acclaimed textbook covering 200 years of African history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Africa\u003c\/i\u003e explores two centuries of the continent’s political, economic, and social history. This thorough yet accessible text help readers to understand key concepts, recognize significant themes, and identify the processes that shaped the modern history of Africa. Emphasis is placed on the consequences of colonial rule, and the links between the precolonial and postcolonial eras. Author Richard Reid, a prominent scholar and historian on the subject, argues that Africa’s struggle for economic and political stability in the nineteenth century escalated and intensified through the twentieth century, the effects of which are still felt in the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new third edition offers substantial updates and revisions that consider recent events and historiography. Greater emphasis is placed on African agency, particularly during the colonial period, and the importance of the long-term militarization of African political culture. Discussions of the postcolonial period have been updated to reflect recent developments, including those in North Africa. Adopting a long-term approach to current African issues, this text: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the legacies of the nineteenth century and the colonial period in the context of the contemporary era\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the role of nineteenth century and long-term internal dynamics in Africa’s modern challenges\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines recent scholarship with concise and effective narrative\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures maps, illustrations, expanded references, and comprehensive endnotes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, 3rd Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to the subject for undergraduate students in relevant courses, and for general readers with interest in modern African history and current affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Maps xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Plates xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments for the Second Edition xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments for the First Edition xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: Understanding the Contours of Africa’s Past 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I A Brief History of the Study of Africa 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLand 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolity, Society, and Economy: Ingenuity and Violence in the Nineteenth Century 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Western Transitions: Slave Trade and “Legitimate” Commerce in Atlantic Africa 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStates and Societies during the Atlantic Slave Trade 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Illegal” Traffic: The Nineteenth‐Century Slave Trade 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMineral and Vegetable: “Legitimate” Commerce 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChange and Continuity in Forest and Savannah 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Eastern Intrusions: Slaves and Ivory in Eastern Africa 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommercial Horizons: Slaves and Ivory 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaritime Empire: Zanzibar 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatehood, Conflict, and Trade (1): The Lacustrine Zone 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatehood, Conflict, and Trade (2): Northeastern Africa 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Southern Frontiers: Colony and Revolution in Southern Africa 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican State and Society to around 1800 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar, Revolution, and the Zulu Impact 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCape Colonialism: White Settlement and the “Native Question” 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBalances of Power to around 1870 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Africa and Islam: Revival and Reform in the Nineteenth Century 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Revival and Reaction: North African Islam 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOld and New Identities: Brotherhoods of the Desert 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade and Conflict in the Mediterranean World: Ottoman and European Frontiers 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Society (1): The Maghreb 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Society (2): Egypt 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Jihad: Revolutions in Western Africa 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam in Western Africa to the Eighteenth Century 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wandering Fulani 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProphets and Warriors 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Eastern Crescent: The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa 112\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwahili Islam: Coastal Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam in the Central East African Interior 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCross and Crescent in Northeast Africa 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam on the Nile 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Africa and Europe: Commerce, Conflict and Co-option, to C.1920 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Compass and the Cross 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterested Gentlemen and Learned Bodies: Explorers and Exploration 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreeping Hegemony and the Invention of Africa 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Missionary Activity in Africa to around 1800 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvangelical Humanitarians: Missionary Revival 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Christian Impact on Culture, State, and Society 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMission and Empire 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 “Whatever Happens …”: Towards the Scramble 148\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica and Theories of Imperialism 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and Culture 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisorder and Civilizing Violence: Political and Economic Justifications 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Africans Adapting: Conquest and Partition 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplaining the “Conquest” 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpears and Water: Violent Resistance 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistories Old and New: Colonialism and Historical “Knowledge” 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealities Old and New: Colonialism and Political “Knowledge” 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBush Wars and Distant Shadows: Africa in Global War 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Colonialisms 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 “Pax Colonia”?: Empires of Soil and Service 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMonopolies on Violence 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlaves and Labor 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCash Crops 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhite Settlement 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustry 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Change and Emergent Crisis 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHearts and Minds 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironment and Medicine 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Hard Times: Protest, Identity, and Depression 230\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Tribes 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmergent Protest in the Islamic World 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSalvation and Resistance: The African Church 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass and Tribe: The Industrial Complex 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCash Crops, Rural Crises, and Peasant Protest 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther Voices 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Battles Home and Away: Africa in Global War (Again) 248\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe War in the Continent 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifts in Politics and Society 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V The Dissolution of Empire 259\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 The Beached Whale: Colonial Strategies in the Postwar World 265\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostwar Africa and the International Climate 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Policies and Visions, c. 1945–50 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Plans, c. 1945–50 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Conceiving and Producing Nations 273\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Widening Horizons of Belonging 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTensions and Transitions: From Political Consciousness to Political Parties 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIrresistible Force and Immovable Object: Nationalists and Settlers 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Time of Contrasts 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Compromising Conflict: Routes to Independence 290\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDebate and Debacle: “Constitutional” Transfers of Power 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViolence: Growth, Form, and Impact 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Suez to Sharpeville, and Beyond: The End of High Imperialism 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Legacies, New Beginnings, and Unfinished Business 311\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 Unsafe Foundations: Challenges of Independence 317\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding the Nation (1): Economy and Society 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding the Nation (2): Polity 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Stability and Islam 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrowded House: Africa and the Cold War 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 Violence and the Militarization of Political Culture 343\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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