History of Central Africa. Volume One + Volume Two.

Gute Exemplare; minimale Gebrauchsspuren; aus d. Bibliothek von H. J. Kolo�/ V�lkerkunde-Museum Berlin. - Englisch. - . In this first volume the main emphasis is on the period 1400�1870. Each chapter explores how Central Africans from the individual regions of the northern and southern savanna, from the rain forest, the Indian Ocean zone and the Zimbabwe plateau, experimented with new technology in traditional crafts, with economies based on fishing, (arming and commerce, with social and political organisation and with innovations in religious worship. It is a history both rich and varied which provides illuminating contrasts and parallels with the histories of both West Africa and East Africa. . (in the) second volume attention is focused on colonial and post-colonial history. The unity of historical experience was in some ways broken in the four-way partition by the colonial powers, but the authors demonstrate that the policies adopted by the main colonisers share a surprising degree of uniformity; this common heritage enables Central Africa's twentieth-century history, through to independence and beyond, to be seen as an integrated whole rather than as a duster of local experiences. . (Verlagstext) / INHALT : List of maps ---- Preface ---- Society and economy before A.D. 1400 David Birmingham ---- The savanna belt of North-Central Africa Dennis D. Cordell ---- The peoples of the forest Jan Vansina ---- The paradoxes of impoverishment in the Atlantic zone Joseph C. Miller ---- The societies of the eastern savanna Thomas Q. Reefe ---- The Indian Ocean zone Alan K. Smith ---- The Zimbabwe plateau and its peoples D. N. Beach ---- (u.a.m.)