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Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875
Professor Trevor Getz
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Description for Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875
Paperback. Series: African World Histories. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and ... Read more
Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
African World Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199764709
SKU
V9780199764709
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About Professor Trevor Getz
Trevor Getz is associate professor of history at San Francisco State. University, where he regularly teaches courses in African and world history. Getz is the author of the monograph, Slavery and Reform in West Africa (2004) and is the co-author of Exchanges: A Reader in Global History (Pearson 2008), and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global History (Pearson 2011). He ... Read more
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