{"product_id":"africas-past-our-future-hardback-9780253016478","title":"Africa's Past, Our Future (Hardback) 9780253016478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrica's Past, Our Future\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathleen R. Smythe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253016478\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 July 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, 4 tables, 2 b\u0026amp;w illus., 10 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an innovative, important, and courageous addition to African and world history scholarship. . . . Africa's Past is a much-needed text for teaching African history. Smythe not only provides an excellent survey of the latest research on Africa's past, she also presents a concise and clear argument as to why this history is relevant today.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An impressive synthesis of current literature in African history, making it understandable and relevant to undergraduates.\"—Jan Bender Shetler, author of Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the\u003cbr\u003e \"Grapples with the narratives and facts and where they fit in global perspective, but why this is all salient and critically meaningful to our lives today in terms of lessons we can learn and ideas we can borrow. This is a unique approach not yet available on the market.\"—Catherine Cymone Fourshey, \u003ci\u003eSusquehanna University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrica's Past, Our Future \u003c\/i\u003eengages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our collective future, this book promotes an appreciation for African social, economic, and political systems that have endured over the long-term and that offer different ways of thinking about a sustainable future. Introducing readers to the wide variety of sources from which African history is constructed, the book's ten chapters cover human evolution, the domestication of plants and animals, climate change, social organization, the slave trade and colonization, development, and contemporary economics and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Why We Need African History\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. The Long Durée\u003cbr\u003e 1. Human Evolution and Becoming Human\u003cbr\u003e 2. Agriculture in History\u003cbr\u003e 3. Africans' Adaptions to Climate Change: Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Cultural Differentiation\u003cbr\u003e 4. Heterarchy and Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cultural Diffusion\u003cbr\u003e 6. Matriliny\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Globalization\u003cbr\u003e 7. Colonialism and Development (with Heidi Frontani)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Africa's Development Assistance (with Heidi Frontani)\u003cbr\u003e 9. African Economics\u003cbr\u003e 10. Failed States? The Successful Somalia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523957879064,"sku":"9780253016478","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/africas-past-our-future-hardback-9780253016478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}