Cosmopolitan Africa: 1700-1875

by Trevor R. Getz

Book Overview

Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199764700
• ISBN13: 9780199764709
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"