The Cambridge History of Africa 8 Volume Hardback Set

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: List of figures
• List of plates
• Preface
• 1. The palaeo-ecology of the African continent: the physical environment of Africa from the earliest geological to Later Stone Age times Karl W. Butzer and H. B. S. Cooke
• 2. Origins and evolution of African Hominidae F. Clark Howell
• 3. The earliest archaeological traces Glynn Ll. Isaac
• 4. The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age J. Desmond Clark
• 5. The Late Palaeolithic and Epi-Paiaeolithic of northern Africa Philip E. L. Smith
• 6. The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa D. W. Phillipson
• 7. The rise of civilization in Egypt B. G. Trigger
• 8. Beginnings of pastoralism and cultivation in north-west Africa and the Sahara: origins of the Berbers G. Camps
• 9. The origins of indigenous African agriculture Jack R. Harlan
• 10. Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period in Egypt Barry J. Kemp
• 11. Early food production in sub-Saharan Africa D. W. Phillipson
• 12. Egypt, 1552–664 BC David O'Connor
• Bibliographical essays
• Bibliography
• Index. Volume 2: Introduction J. D. Face
• 1. The legacy of prehistory J. Desmond Clark
• 2. North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization R. C. C. Law
• 3. North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods R. C. C. Law
• 4. The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia P. L. Shinnie
• 5. Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa Raymond Mauny
• 6. The emergence of Bantu Africa Roland Oliver and Brian M. Fagan
• 7. The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa W. H. C. Frend
• 8. The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam to North Africa Michael Brett
• 9. Christian Nubia P. L. Shinnie
• 10. The Fatimid revolution and its aftermath in North Africa Michael Brett
• 11. The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids Nehemia Levtzion
• Bibliographical essays
• Bibliography
• Index. Volume 3: Introduction: some interregional themes Roland Oliver
• 1. Egypt, Nubia, and the Eastern Deserts Ivan Hrbek
• 2. Ethiopia, the Red Sea and the Horn Taddesse Tamrat
• 3. The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean H. Neville Chittick
• 4. The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan H. J. Fisher
• 5. The western Maghrib and Sudan Nehemia Levtzion
• 6. Upper and lower guinea J. D. Fage
• 7. Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi David Birmingham
• 8. Southern Africa David Birmingham, and Shula Marks
• 9. The East African interior Roland Oliver. Volume 4: List of maps
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Richard Gray
• 1. Egypt, the Funj and Darfur P. M. Holt
• 2. The central Sahara and Sudan H. J. Fisher
• 3. North-West Africa: from the Maghrib to the fringes of the forest Nehemia Levtzion
• 4. The Guinea Coast Walter Rodney
• 5. Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi David Birmingham
• 6. Southern Africa and Madagascar Shula Marks and Richard Gray
• 7. Eastern Africa Edward Alpers and Christopher Ehret
• 8. Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa M. Abir
• 9. Africa in Europe and the Americas Walter Rodney
• Bibliographical essays
• Bibliography
• Index. Volume 5: Introduction John E. Flint
• 1. Egypt and the Nile valley P. M. Holt
• 2. Ethiopia and the Horn Sven Rubenson
• 3. The Maghrib Douglas Johnson
• 4. The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa M. Hiskett
• 5. Freed slave colonies in West Africa Christopher Fyfe
• 6. West Africa in the anti-slave trade era J. F. Ade Ajayi and B. O. Oloruntimehin
• 7. The forest and the savanna of Central Africa David Birmingham
• 8. East Africa: the expansion of commerce A. C. Unomah and J. B. Webster
• 9. The Nguni outburst J. D. Omer-Cooper
• 10. Colonial South Africa and its frontiers J. D. Omer-Cooper
• 11. Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790–1870 Hubert Deschamps
• 12. Africans overseas, 1790–1870 John E. Flint and I. Geiss
• 13. Changing European attitudes to Africa Robin Hallett
• Bibliographical essays
• Bibliography
• Index. Volume 6:
• 1. Africa on the eve o
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