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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Plates | |
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| Acknowledgments for the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Understanding the Contours of Africa's Past | |
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| A Brief History of the Study of Africa | |
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| Land | |
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| People | |
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| Polity, Society, and Economy: Ingenuity and Violence in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Western Transitions: Slave Trade and "Legitimate" Commerce in Atlantic Africa | |
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| States and Societies during the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| "Illegal" Traffic: The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade | |
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| Mineral and Vegetable: "Legitimate" Commerce | |
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| Change and Continuity in Forest and Savannah | |
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| Eastern Intrusions: Slaves and Ivory in Eastern Africa | |
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| Commercial Horizons: Slaves and Ivory | |
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| Maritime Empire: Zanzibar | |
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| Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (1): The Lacustrine Zone | |
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| Statehood, Conflict, and Trade (2): Northeastern Africa | |
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| Southern Frontiers: Colony and Revolution in Southern Africa | |
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| African State and Society to around 1800 | |
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| War, Revolution, and the Zulu Impact | |
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| Cape Colonialism: White Settlement and the "Native Question" | |
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| Voortrekkers: White Communities in the Interior | |
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| Balances of Power to around 18 70 | |
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| Africa and Islam: Revival and Reform in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Revival and Reaction: North African Islam | |
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| Old and New Identities: Brotherhoods of the Desert | |
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| Trade and Conflict in the Mediterranean World: Ottoman and European Frontiers | |
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| Changing Society (1): The Maghreb | |
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| Changing Society (2): Egypt | |
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| Jihad: Revolutions in Western Africa | |
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| Islam in Western Africa to the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Wandering Fulani | |
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| Prophets and Warriors | |
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| The Eastern Crescent: The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa | |
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| Swahili Islam: Coastal Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Islam in the Central East African Interior | |
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| Cross and Crescent in Northeast Africa | |
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| Islam on the Nile | |
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| Africa and Europe: Commerce, Conflict and Co-option, to c.1920 | |
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| The Compass and the Cross | |
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| Interested Gentlemen and Learned Bodies: Explorers and Exploration | |
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| Creeping Hegemony and the Invention of Africa | |
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| European Missionary Activity in Africa to around 1800 | |
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| Evangelical Humanitarians: Missionary Revival | |
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| The Christian Impact on Culture, State, and Society | |
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| Mission and Empire | |
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| "Whatever Happens…": Towards the Scramble | |
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| Africa and Theories of Imperialism | |
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| Race and Culture | |
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| Disorder and Civilizing Violence: Political and Economic Justifications | |
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| Africans Adapting: Conquest and Partition | |
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| Explaining the "Conquest" | |
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| Spears and Water: Violent Resistance | |
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| Histories Old and New: Colonialism and Historical "Knowledge" | |
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| Realities Old and New: Colonialism and Political "Knowledge" | |
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| Bush Wars and Distant Shadows: Africa in Global War | |
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| Colonialisms | |
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| "Pax Colonia"? Empires of Soil and Service | |
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| Monopolies on Violence | |
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| Slaves and Labor | |
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| Cash Crops | |
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| White Settlement | |
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| Industry | |
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| Social Change and Emergent Crisis | |
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| Hearts and Minds | |
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| Environment and Medicine | |
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| Hard Times: Protest, Identity, and Depression | |
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| Making Tribes | |
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| Emergent Protest in the Islamic World | |
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| Salvation and Resistance: The African Church | |
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| Class and Tribe: The Industrial Complex | |
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| Cash Crops, Rural Crises, and Peasant Protest | |
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| Other Voices | |
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| Battles Home and Away: Africa in Global War (Again) | |
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| The War in the Continent | |
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| Shifts in Politics and Society | |
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| The Dissolution of Empire | |
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| The Beached Whale: Colonial Strategies in the Postwar World | |
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| Postwar Africa and the International Climate | |
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| Economic Policies and Visions, c. 1945-50 | |
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| Political Plans, c. 1945-50 | |
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| Conceiving and Producing Nations | |
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| The Widening Horizons of Belonging | |
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| Tensions and Transitions: From Political Consciousness to Political Parties | |
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| Irresistible Force and Immovable Object: Nationalists and Settlers | |
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| A Time of Contrasts | |
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| Compromising Conflict: Routes to Independence | |
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| Debate and Debacle: "Constitutional" Transfers of Power | |
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| Violence: Growth, Form, and Impact | |
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| From Suez to Sharpeville, and Beyond: The End of High Imperialism | |
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| Legacies, New Beginnings, and Unfinished Business | |
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| Unsafe Foundations: Challenges of Independence | |
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| Building the Nation (1): Economy and Society | |
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| Building the Nation (2): Polity | |
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| Political Stability and Islam | |
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| Crowded House: Africa and the Cold War | |
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| Violence and the Militarization of Political Culture | |
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| The Military in African Politics | |
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| The Politics and Cultures of Insurgency | |
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| Expanding Military Horizons | |
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| Rectification, Redemption, and Reality: Issues and Trends in Contemporary Africa | |
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| Africa and the Post-Cold War World | |
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| Democracy and Authoritarianism: Trends in Governance | |
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| New Wars, Old Problems | |
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| Body and Mind | |
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| Economic Predicaments: Assessing "Growth" and "Development" | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |