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Title: Africa's Discovery of Europe 1450-1850 by David Northrup ISBN: 0-19-514084-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Summary: Through African Eyes
Comment: David Northrup provides the reader with a unique experience in AFRICA'S DISCOVERY OF EUROPE, 1450-1850. Using direct and indirect quotations from 16th-19th century Africans whenever possible, he recreates four centuries of African reactions to Europe and Europeans. Emphasizing the diversity of African experiences and opinions, he documents their interactions with and opinions of European traders, priests, and rulers. He examines the impact on Africa of European products, technology, and religion (as well as the slave trade), always focusing on the actions and choices of specific African groups and individuals. Individual Africans appear vividly on his pages, sometimes in a single sentence, sometimes in more detail: rulers and slaves, traders and slavers, Christian converts and Eurafricans, Africans who visited Europe and those who spent a lifetime there. Amply footnoted, the slender (200-page) volume is very readable and does not overwhelm the general reader with masses of detail or a pedantic tone. Challenging not only the dominant Eurocentric viewpoint of most American books on Africa but also the monotone view of Africans as passive victims of European domination, Northrup's approach is refreshing. He attempts not a definitive account but one that provokes speculation and invites further research, while sharing sources that personalize these critical centuries of African history. A thoroughly enjoyable book.
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Title: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library, 2) by David Christian, William H. McNeill ISBN: 0520235002 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Studies in Comparative World History) by Lauren Benton, Michael Adas, Edmund Burke III, Philip D. Curtin ISBN: 052100926X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 by David Armitage, Michael J. Braddick ISBN: 0333963415 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (Warfare and History) by John Kelly Thornton ISBN: 1857283937 Publisher: UCL Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Kongolese Saint Anthony : Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 by John Thornton ISBN: 0521596491 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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