Africa's Past, Our Future

Name: Africa's Past, Our Future
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ISBN: 9780253016478

ISBN-10: 0253016479

ISBN-13: 9780253016478

Edition: 2015

Authors: Kathleen R. Smythe

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Africa's Past, Our Future engages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our collective future, this book promotes an appreciation for African social, economic, and political systems that have endured over the long-term and that offer different ways of thinking about a sustainable future. Introducing readers to the wide variety of sources from which African history is constructed, the book’s ten chapters cover human evolution, the domestication of plants and animals, climate change, social organization, the slave trade…

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/6/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Kathleen R. Smythe is Associate Professor of history at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her research and teaching interests include colonial and religious African history. She is currently pursuing research, teaching, and writing at the intersection of African and world history.