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Title: | AN AFRICAN CLASSICAL AGE - EASTERN AND AOUTHERN AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY 1000 B.C. TO A.D.400 | |
| Author: | CHRISTOPHER EHRET | |
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| Price: | £16.95 | ||
| Publisher: | JAMES CURREY | ||
| Distributor: | PLYMBRIDGE | ||
| ISBN: | 0852557884 | ||
| Format/Size: | 153X234MM | ||
| Pages: | 354 | ||
| Publication Date: | 2001 | ||
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| Description: | An African Classical Age has already become an essential resource for scholars of linguistics, archaeology, world history and African studies. The culmination of twenty-five years research, this sweeping historical survey fundamentally challenges how we view the place not only of eastern and southern Africa, but of Africa as a whole in the early eras of world history.Christopher Ehret brings to light 1,400 years of social and economic transformation across Africa from Uganda and Kenya in the north to Natal and the Cape in the south, offering a much-needed portrait of this region during a crucial period in which basic features of precolonial African societies and cultures emerged.Combining the most recent findings of archaeology and historical linguistics, the author demonstrates that, from 1000 B.C. through the fourth century A.D., eastern and southern African history was invigorated by technological change and intricately reshaped by the clash of distinctive cultures. Africans of this period were direct and indirect participants in the major trends of contemporary world history, such as the Iron Age and the first great rise of long distance commercial enterprise. Christopher Ehret is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
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