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| List of Tables, Figures, and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Note on the Transcription of Proper Nouns | |
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| People and Their Environment: Africa's Climate and Demography | |
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| The Perils of Rainfall Variations | |
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| Population Growth and Decline | |
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| The Ecology of Health | |
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| Greater Demographic Disparities | |
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| Greater Mobility | |
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| The Inflow of Foreigners | |
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| A Harsh Environment | |
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| Political and Warlike Islam: The Maghreb and West Africa Before the Colonial Conquest | |
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| The Maghreb Before Conquest | |
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| The Western Sudan at the Turn of the Nineteeth Century | |
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| A Major Focus: Trans-Saharan Trade | |
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| Jihad and the Religious Islam of Conquest | |
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| Adrift Under Western Pressure: Samori | |
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| Political and Merchant Islam: East Africa | |
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| Modernity as an Option: Egypt | |
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| At the Crossroads of Worlds: Ethopia | |
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| Old-Style Colonization: Zanzibar | |
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| In the Margins Between Worlds: Rabith | |
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| Animism's Resistance--Openness and Introversion: Central-Western Africa | |
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| The Reformism of the Coastal Empires | |
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| The Peoples of the Interior | |
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| The Meeting of Cultures: Southern Africa | |
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| Upheaval at the Beginning of the Nineteeth Century | |
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| Shaka and the Zulu Revolution: Revision of an Analysis | |
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| Lesotho: Colonized Bastion | |
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| The English, the Africans, and the Boers: The Genesis of Segregation | |
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| Colonial Intervention | |
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| The Beginnings of Colonia Imperialism in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The Genesis of Colonial Government | |
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| The End of Colonial Conquests | |
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| Resitance | |
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| Algeria, from Revolt to Colonization | |
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| The Century's Innovations | |
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| Slavery: A Mode of Production That Had Become Dominant | |
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| Christianity: The Missionary Factor in Changing Mentalities | |
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| Economic and Social Changes: Systems of Production and Lifestyles | |
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| New Social Players: Gender Relations, Urbanization Culture and the Arts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |