"This detailed focus on 19th-century Africa emphasizes climate, demography, and sociopolitical and economic developments. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice

Table of Contents

• Preface to the American Edition
• Introduction
• Note on the Transcription of Proper Nouns
• 1. People and Their Environment: Africa's Climate and Demography
• 2. Political and Warlike Islam: The Maghreb and West Africa Before the Colonial Conquest
• 3. Political and Merchant Islam: East Africa
• 4. Animism's Resistance—Openness and Introversion: Central-Western Africa
• 5. The Meeting of Cultures: Southern Africa
• 6. Colonial Intervention
• 7. The Century's Innovations
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Chronology: Europeans in Africa
• About the Author