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In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.
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African Studies: Africans, John Iliffe
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- Année de publication
- 1995
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- Titre
- African Studies: Africans
- Sous-titre
- The History of a Continent
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- John Iliffe
- Éditeur
- Cambridge University Press
- Publié
- 1995
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0521484227
- ISBN13
- 9780521484220
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Manuels et guides, L'école, Afrique, Anthropologie, Histoire du monde
- Évaluation
- 3,65 sur 5
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- In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.