The African past : chronicles from antiquity to modern times
Basil Davidson
Bok · Engelsk · 1966
| Utgitt | London : Penguin Books , c1966
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| Omfang | 381 s.
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| Opplysninger | Africa in history. The stages of the past ; African and Asian records ; The Western contribution ; Unity and continuity -- Antiquity. Four journeys to the unknown south / Harkhuf ; Early empire-building / Pepi-Nakt ; Trade and tribute / Tuthmosis III ; Kush in Egypt / Piankhi ; A city named Meroe, Carthage trades south / Herodotus ; The fall of Meroe / Ezana ; Stone age art / Desmond Clark -- Early West Africa. The Nok culture / Bernard Fagg ; Two thousand years of sculpture / Frank Willett ; Where the Yoruba came from / Muhammad Bello ; Yoruba traditions / Samuel Johnson ; Yoruba origins, a modern view / Saburi Biobaku ; Foundations of Ghana / Tamsir Niane and Suret-Canale ; The king of Ghana / Al Yakubi ; Ghana in 1067, Royal finances / Al Bekri ; Sundiata's triumph / Anonymous ; Mali in the fourteenth century, Traveling through Cairo, The empire of Mali, Reception at court, The importance of horses, Royal bureaucracy ; Travels in Mali, Pomp and circumstance, Security and justice / Ibn Battuta ; The Hausa states, Diplomacy, Warfare / Kano chronicle ; Social reform in Songhay, The seventh question, The answer / Al Maghili ; Kanem and Turkey / Ahmed Ibn Fartua ; Bound and free in 1508, The duty of vassals, Decline and fall / Kati ; Djenne / es-Sa'di ; The empire of Benin: Origins, Legend and fact, A ruler from Ife, A discontented prince, Brass-casting, Ewuare the great, Guns and coconuts, Missionaries / Egharevba -- Early East Africa. The country of Zanj, The ivory trade / Al Mas'udi ; The ivory trade, a modern view / Freeman-Grenville ; The export of iron / Idrisi ; Money talks / Freeman-Grenville ; The blood-drinkers / Yu-yang-tsa-tsu ; Slaves from Madagascar, Early Zanzibar / Chao Ju-kua ; Advice to traders / Chang Hsieh ; Emergence of Kilwa / Kilwa chronicle ; Kilwa in 1331 / Ibn Battuta ; A strong ruler, medieval Ethopia ; Vasco da Gama / Kilwa chronicle ; Seafaring / Pate chronicle ; The end of an epoch, Mossell Bay: the Hottentots, Quilimane: first impact, Mozambique: a new world, Malindi: an offer of pilots, Journey to India / Vasco da Gama's logbook ; Swahili civilization, Sofala, The Zambezi mouths, Angoya, Mozambique island, Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Pemba, Mafia, Zanzibar, Pate and Lamu, Brava, Mogadishu / Duarte Barbosa ; The sack of two cities: Kilwa, Mombasa / Hans Mayr ; Kilwa tariffs / Diogo de Alcancova -- An inland epic. Conquest and challenge, Changa succeeds / D.P. Abraham ; "Kings and barons" / Diogo de Alcancova ; Peace at last / Pedro Vaz Soares ; Monomotapa / Duarte Barbosa ; Mines and fortresses / Joao de Barros ; South-central Africa in 1590-1600, Sofala, Kingdom of the Quiteve, Far up the Zambezi, The kingdom of Monomotapa / Joao dos Santos ; The deal with Portugal / Antonio Boccarro ; Destruction of Monomotapa / Advices from Goa ; Civilities / King of Portugal ; Realities, The gold fails / Manoel Barreto.West Africa meets Europe. The building of El Mina Castle, Portuguese reach Benin / Ruy de Pina ; Inland kingdoms / Duarte Pacheco Pereira ; The king of Benin / Duarte Pires ; A Spanish raid / Alonso de Palencia ; Evils of the trade, The origins of slaving, A call for aid / Affonso of Congo ; Angolan currency / Abreu de Brito ; Guinea cargoes / John Landye ; English at Benin, Gold and ivory / Richard Eden ; Metal goods / William Towerson ; Towards the slave trade / John Hawkins ; Mandingo towns, Lords and vassals, Gambia craftsmanship / Richard Jobson ; A million slaves / Oliveira Cadornega -- The eighteenth century. The trade in captives / John Barbot ; Docile slaves? / John Casseneuve ; Revolt at sea / "Boston Post boy" ; Slaving manners, The system in Angola, An Angolan "Zimbabwe" / James Barbot ; A report on gold, The Guinea partnership, Guns for Africa / William Bosman ; A scientific traveler / Michel Adanson ; Ouidah in 1721 / John Atkins ; The palace of Benin / William Smith ; A dearth of victims / Richard Brew ; The reverence of kings / Captain Heatley ; The business of kings / James Penny ; Abuses of the trade / Company directors ; The price of slaves / John Johnston ; An enlightened ruler / C.B. Wadstrom ; Rise of Dahomey / Archibald Dalzell ; Oyo and Dahomey / Robert Norris ; Congo government / Abbe Proyart ; In Iboland / Olaudah Equiano ; A wider picture, Nicotine and kola / Thomas Winterbottom ; Ethiopian encounters, Adventure at Gondar, The civil wars, Cavalry of Sennar, Ruins of Meroe / James Bruce ; The Hottentots, The bushmen / Andrew Sparrman -- The nineteenth century. Rediscovering Kush / Frederic Caillaud ; Beyond the Orange River / John Barrow ; Shaka the Zulu / Henry Fynn ; In the wake of many wars, Moshesh of the Basuto / Edouard Casalis ; Chief Moselekatse / Robert Moffat ; The land of Kazembe, Marave bridges, Metallurgy, Devastation, King Kazembe / Antonio Gamitto ; Central Africa in the 1840s, The roots of apartheid, Boer policy, African justice, Security, Gold and iron / David Livingstone ; Kilwa in ruins, Songo Mnara / James Prior ; After the deluge / W.F.W. Owen ; Lament for greatness / Abdullah ben Nasir ; On the meaning of gifts / Arnauld d'Abbadie ; To the Niger, The king of Bondou, "Broad as the Thames at Westminster," Segu, A slave coffle / Mungo Park ; Reformation, The old Habe kingdoms, Five rules of government / Uthman dan Fodio ; Against bad rulers / Abdullah Ibn Muhammad ; Jihad / Muhammad Bello ; Muhammad Bello / al Hajji Sa'id ; At Kumasi / Thomas Bowdich ; Political background / Brodie Cruickshank ; The Western Sudan, Kano in mid-century, Finding the Tarikh es-Sudan, Timbuktu, Industry and trade/ Heinrich Barth ; On slavery / Martin Delany ; Yoruba government / Robert Campbell ; In the oil rivers / Winwood Reade ; A West African Spartacus / Edward Blyden ; In the Gaboon, Ascent of the Ogowe, Adventures in the forest, Advantages of wearing a skirt / Mary Kingsley ; Facing invasion / Macemba -- The twentieth century: a few signposts. Colonial conquest / K. Schwabe ; Leopold's Congo / Leo Frobenius ; White man's country? / R. Meinertzhagen ; The African awakening / Charles Domingo ; Rediscovering Africa / Theodore Monod ; Bantu philosophy / Placide Tempels ; Points of arrival / Vinigi Grottanelli ; African history / Onwuka Dike.
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