African History: A Very Short Introduction
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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
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245 primary books246 released books#160 in Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions is a 246-book series with 269 primary works first released in 1915 with contributions by Mary Beard, John Henderson, and Damien Keown.
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A survey of what history could mean for africa and what complicates ideas/designs toward the continent, it's history and it's starus.
Book Review: African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone - not much history in the book. The focus is on the academic study of African history, not the actual history of Africa. If I were interested in the academic study of Africa, then this is a good book. This is a fairly common problem in the Very Short Introduction series from the volumes I have read. The Very Short Introduction to the bible did the same thing. It talked about the study of the bible, not the content of the bible.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/african-history/
