The Cambridge History of Africa

Book Overview

The five and a half centuries described in this volume were those in which Iron Age cultures passed from their early and experimental phases into stages of maturity characterized by long-distance trade and complex, many-tiered political systems. In Egypt and North Africa it was a period of religious and cultural consolidation when the Arabic language and the faith of Islam were adopted by the majority of the indigenous Copts and Berbers. In the sub-Saharan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521209811
• ISBN13: 9780521209816
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 818 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"