Author: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Congo, the harbor cities at the Indian Ocean, the capitals of the Bantu Kingdoms, the Atlantic cities from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and the urban revolutions in the 19th century. Mercantile cities opened Africa to the world, Islamic cities became centers of scholarship and the trans-Saharan trade, Creole cities appeared after the first contact with Europeans, and Bantu cities of the hinterland reacted against them. The author has gone through vast numbers of archival records and conducted independent field research to analyze and describe the rich history of African cities even long before imperial colonization began, and she continues her story until the time of urban reorganization during industrialization. The result is a colorful panorama of urban lifestyles including unique examples of architecture, and lasting traditions of ethnic, cultural, religious, and commercial forms of co-existence.
Author: Richard W. Hull
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393055818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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An analytical and comparative survey of major urban centers south of the Sahara during the thousand years before European colonization, examining their governments, economics, societies, and arts
Author: Philip J. Foster
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742555976
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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A fifth edition of this book is now available. This fully updated and revised fourth edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and by extension the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, a group of noted experts explores the eleven major global regions. Liberally illustrated with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of boxed vignettes. Clearly written and timely, this text will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, and urban studies.
Author: Bill Freund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139459554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Author: Donald Lawrence Wiedner
Publisher: London : G. Bell, 1964 [c1962]
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Author: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118268X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Richard W. Hull
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393091663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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An analytical and comparative survey of major urban centers south of the Sahara during the thousand years before European colonization, examining their governments, economics, societies, and arts
Author: Joseph R. Oppong
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438104529
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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This new series teaches students about the most important geographic concepts and shows them how people are affected by and respond to economic, social, and political forces--at both the global and local scale. Authors are educators who are trained to teach geography at the high school or college levels. This series meets national geography and social standards.
