| Description |
1 online resource (771 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / J.D. Fage -- The legacy of prehistory: an essay on the background to the individuality of African cultures / J. Desmond Clark -- North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization, c. 800 to 323 BC / R.C.C. Law -- North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305 / R.C.C. Law -- The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600 / P.L. Shinnie -- Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa / Raymond Mauny -- The emergence of Bantu Africa / Roland Oliver and Brian M. Fagan -- The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa, c.ad 200 to 700 / W.H.C. Frend -- The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa / Michael Brett -- Christian Nubia / P.L. Shinnie -- The Fatimid revolution (861-973) and its aftermath in North Africa / Michael Brett -- The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids / Nehemia Levtzion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Africa -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001556
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Africa -- History -- To 1884.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001558
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| Subject |
Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fage, J. D
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| ISBN |
9781139054560 |
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1139054562 |
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9781139054560 |
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