Eastern African History (African History in Documents) - Softcover

Collins, Professor Of History Robert O

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558760164 ISBN 13: 9781558760165

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes, including China's discovery of Africa; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic slave trade; kingdoms and court life in inner east Africa; and the appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and colonialists. The authors of the texts include important local authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators from Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, India, and China. Modern times are considered in the documents of Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya, Milton Obote, and Julius Nyerere. The African History in Documents series also features: Volume I: West African History Volume III: Central and South African History

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About the Author:

About Robert O. Collins: Robert O. Collins, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1919-1956 and The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988, as well as 24 other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1558760164
• ISBN 13: 9781558760165
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256