John K. Thornton (Boston University)

A History of West Central Africa to 1850

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An original interpretative history for students or scholars of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 which benefits from comprehensive and in-depth treatment of internal histories, inter-state interactions, and external relationships for an original approach to regional histories.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to African History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107565937
• ISBN-10: 1107565936
• Artikelnr.: 58342094

Autorenporträt

John Thornton is Professor of History at Boston University where he is a specialist in the history of pre-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora. He is the author of numerous books, including Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (1992, 2nd edition 1998), The Kongolese Saint Anthony (1998), Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas (2007) which was awarded the Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association, and A Cultural History of the Atlantic World (2012) which was awarded the World History Association Book Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The Development of States in West Central African to 1540
2. The Struggle for Ambundu and the Founding of Angola
3. Ndongo and Portugal at War
4. Queen Njinga's Struggle for Ndongo
5. The Thirty Years' War Comes to Central Africa
6. The Emergence of Lunda
7. The Weight of Lunda on the West
8. Culmination: Lunda, Luba and the Ovimbundu
Epilog