Africans and Their History

History

Harris, Joseph E.

Africa

Signet

The truth about Africa's heritage is as complex as it is elusive. This concise overview is a major step toward understanding the diverse societies on the African continent, and a documentation of the way Western writers have distorted images of Africa as far back as the Greco-Roman period. Incisive and authoritative, this invaluable work by a leading black scholar splendidly chronicles Africa's development. Mentor Edition.

Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of fire, food production via plant cultivation and animal domestication, as well as the creation of sophisticated tools and hunting weapons from iron took place in Africa. Other historical events such as the slave trade, which played a critical role in Western economic power, the rise of Islam as one of the world?s dominant religions, and colonization and struggles for independence occurred on African soil.Africans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric times through the present. This concise and authoritative overview of the diverse peoples and societies of Africa now covers recent events, including the emergence of a free South Africa and its landmark enactment of a constitution that recognizes even more rights than the American constitution.The dynamic history and the relationship Africans have with the rest of the world is revealed in Africans and Their History, exposing and shattering ugly stereotypes that for too long have dominated Western thought.  Africans and Their History has been updated to reflect the past decade of African events.  Ever growing number of African Studies departments on college campuses insures a constant audience for this book. Africans and Their History has a long and steady backlist life--first published in 1972.

The truth about Africa's heritage is as complex as it is elusive. This concise overview is a major step toward understanding the diverse societies on the African continent, and a documentation of the way Western writers have distorted images of Africa as far back as the Greco-Roman period. Incisive and authoritative, this invaluable work by a leading black scholar splendidly chronicles Africa's development. Mentor Edition.

Africans and Their History: Revised Edition

Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of fire, food production via plant cultivation and animal domestication, as well as the creation of sophisticated tools and hunting weapons from iron took place in Africa. Other historical events such as the slave trade, which played a critical role in Western economic power, the rise of Islam as one of the world's dominant religions, and colonization and struggles for independence occurred on African soil. Africans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric times through the present. This concise and authoritative overview of the diverse peoples and societies of Africa now covers recent events, including the emergence of a free South Africa and its landmark enactment of a constitution that recognizes even more rights than the American constitution.The dynamic history and the relationship Africans have with the rest of the world is revealed in Africans and Their History, exposing and shattering ugly stereotypes that for too long have dominated Western thought. • Africans and Their History has been updated to reflect the past decade of African events. • Ever growing number of African Studies departments on college campuses insures a constant audience for this book. • Africans and Their History has a long and steady backlist life—first published in 1972.

Africans and Their History: Second Revised Edition

Plume

This book discusses African-American sympathies with Ethiopia particularly during the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1936-1941, which was a war between a European power against a weak African country that struck a collaborative effort from descendant Africans in the Americas for racial freedom and dignity.

African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia 1936-1941

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Africa and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers (African History Notebook) (Vol. 2)

Howard Univ Pr

PILLARS IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY,The William Leo Hansberry African History Notebook, Volume I Edited by Joseph E. Harris Taken from William Leo Hansberry's private papers the four essays in Volume I, better described as narrative histories, decipher and remove from the entanglement of myth, legend and spurious historical documentation the pillars of Ethiopia's unity. The editor, Joseph Harris, is the former chairman of the Department of History at Howard University. AFRICA AND AFRICANS AS SEEN BY CLASSICAL WRITERS, The William Leo Hansberry African History Notebook Volume II Edited by Joseph E. harris volume II of the William Leo Hansberry Notebook interprets, classical comments about Africa and Africans. William Leo Hansberry is considered by many to be the father of African Studies in the United States. During the thirty-seven years that Hansberry taught at Howard University, he laid the foundations for the systematic study of African History culture and politics.

Pillars in Ethiopian History

Repatriates and Refugees in Colonial Society: The Case of Kenya

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

As Africans and descendants of slaves have sought to expand an understanding of their history, focus on the African diaspora--the global dispersal of a people and their culture--has increased. African studies have assumed a prominent place in historical scholarship, and a growing number of non-African scholars has helped revise a discipline established over several decades. The six contributions in this volume were compiled as a result of the thirtieth Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture held at the University of Texas at Arlington. The contributors, nationally recognized in the field, represent a collaborative analysis of the African diaspora from African and non-African perspectives. Joseph E. Harris discusses how the African diaspora influences the economies, politics, and social dynamics of both the homeland and the host country. Alusine Jalloh reconstructs the mercantile activities of the Fula in colonial Sierra Leone. Joseph E. Inikori argues that slavery and serfdom in medieval Europe provide greater insights into precolonial Africa than do standard New World comparisons. Colin A. Palmer examines the power relationships that undergirded American slavery in order to better understand the enslaved. Douglas B. Chambers reveals the enduring influence of Africanisms in the historical development of Afro-Virginian slave culture. And Dale T. Graden looks at African slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil between 1848 and 1856, focusing on the Bahian elite and their response to slave resistance.

The African Diaspora (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures (Paperback))

Texas A&M University Press

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Africans and Their History

Africans and Their History

Africans and Their History

Africans and Their History: Revised Edition

Africans and Their History: Second Revised Edition

African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia 1936-1941

Africa and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers (African History Notebook) (Vol. 2)

Pillars in Ethiopian History

Repatriates and Refugees in Colonial Society: The Case of Kenya

The African Diaspora (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures (Paperback))