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001 2008033387
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008 080805s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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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 /$cCatherine Coquery-Vidrovitch ; translated from the French by Mary Baker.
260 $aArmonk, N.Y. :$bM.E. Sharpe,$cc2009.
300 $axix, 312 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) 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 : Rabīh -- 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.