Livingstone's African Journal 1853-1856
Author: David Livingstone
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 270
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Author: David Livingstone
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 270
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0300191006
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Author: Sjoerd Rijpma
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9004293736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant. David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease is an unusual book. After a close examination of Livingstone’s writings and comparative reading of contemporary authors, Sjoerd Rijpma has been able to draw cautious conclusions about the relatively favourable conditions of health and nutrition in southern and central Africa during the pre-colonial period. His findings shed new light on the medical history of Sub-Saharan Africa. The surprise awaiting travellers in and also before 19th century Africa was that the inhabitants of the interior, even the ‘slaves’, were healthier and better fed than many of their contemporaries in Europe’s Industrial Revolution. “An impressive piece of scholarship, truly forensic in its close reading and re-reading of Livingstone’s published works and those of other travellers during the same era, clearly a labour of love which has taken years to complete” (Joanna Lewis).
Author: Andrew C. Ross
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-09-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781852855659
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Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-04
Total Pages: 1268
ISBN-13: 9780521583428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
Author: David Livingstone
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francois Coillard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 1136983104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eye-witness account of the events which shook South-Central Africa before the advent of Colonial rule. It presents an account of the Lozi, a record of Coillard's journeys and his work in establishing the Paris evangelical mission in Barotseland.
Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780761815204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1972, Africa and the World places the African past within the wider context of world events, while providing a wealth of geographical and ethnographic information about the continent. The book specifically focuses on the pre-colonial and early colonial history of sub-Saharan Africa. Designed for those interested in the impact of Europe on the non-Western world, the volume provides an account of the major economic and social factors that have shaped African history. Information from studies in anthropology, archaeology, history, and art are included as well. Africa and the World is an essential and accessible resource for those interested in world history or African studies.
Author: Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-04-13
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780521455992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge History of Africa. Reflecting several emphases in recent scholarship, it focusses on the changing modes of production, on gender relations and on ecology, laying particular stress on viewing 'history from below'. A distinctive theme is to be found in its analyses of cognitive history. The work falls into three sections. The first comprises a historiographic analysis, and covers the period from the dawn of prehistory to the end of the Early Iron Age. The second and third sections are, for the most part, organised on regional lines; the second section ends in the sixteenth century; the third carries the story on to 1870. A second volume, now in preparation, will cover the period from 1870 to 1995. This book attempts a more rounded view of African history than most of the other textbooks on the subject addressed to a (largely) undergraduate level student. Earlier histories have tended to ignore some of the current foci in the scholarly literature on Africa, generally not reflected in the textbooks: these include discussions of topical issues like ecology and gender. Isichei's book is also more radical.