| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Western African studies
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Western African studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Holocene prehistory of West Africa, 10,000-1000 BP / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Ecology & culture in West Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr -- Linguistics & history in West Africa / M.E. Kropp Dakubu -- Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding peoples of West Africa / David C. Conrad -- Slavery & slave trade in West Africa, 1450-1930 / Patrick Manning -- Class, caste & social inequality in West African history / Ismail Rashid -- Religious interactions in pre-twentieth century West Africa / Pashington Obeng -- Poverty in pre-colonial & colonial West Africa : perception, causes & alleviation / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Disease in West African history / Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong -- Urbanization in colonial & post-colonial West Africa / Andreas Eckert -- Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & structural adjustment : an episode in West African economic history / Celestin Monga -- Ethnicity, conflict & the state in contemporary West Africa / Cyril K. Daddieh -- Pentecostalism, Islam & culture : new religious movements in West Africa / Brian Larkin & Birgit Meyer. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Africa, West -- History.
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West Africa. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Themes in West Africa's history. Athens : Ohio University ; Oxford, England : James Currey ; Accra : Woeli Pub. Services, 2006 (DLC) 2005044917 (OCoLC)61303495 |
| ISBN |
9780821445662 (electronic book) |
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0821445669 (electronic book) |
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0821416405 (Ohio Univ. Press cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780821416402 (Ohio Univ. Press cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0821416413 (Ohio Univ. Press paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780821416419 (Ohio Univ. Press paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9988626568 (Woeli Pub. Services paperback) |
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9789988626563 (Woeli Pub. Services paperback) |
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0852559968 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780852559963 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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085255995X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780852559956 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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