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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
John ParkerRichard Reid
出版OUP Oxford, 2013-10
主題History / GeneralHistory / Africa / GeneralHISTORY / HistoriographyHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Human Geography
ISBN019957247X9780199572472
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4c_0AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.