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An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to Ad 400 Paperback - 2001
by Christopher Ehret
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In the wide skein of lands that stretch down the eastern side of Africa, the centuries from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400 constitute a Classical Age.
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- Title An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to Ad 400
- Author Christopher Ehret
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st U.S. Paper E
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville
- Date February 2001
- ISBN 9780813920573 / 0813920574
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.05 x 1.23 in (23.44 x 15.37 x 3.12 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: Southern Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Africa, Southern - History - To 1899, Africa, Eastern - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 967.6
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AN AFRICAN CLASSICAL AGE: EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY, 1000 BC TO AD 400 by Ehret, Christopher
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ISBN: 9780813920573University of Virginia Press | 07 March 2001
Paperback | 354 pages
In "An African Classical Age", Christopher Ehret brings to light 1,400 years of social and economic transformation across Africa from Uganda and Kenya in the north to Natal and the Cape in the south. The book offers a much-needed portrait of this region during a crucial period in which basic features of precolonial African societies and cultures emerged. Combining the most recent findings of archaeology and historical linguistics, the author demonstrates that, from 1000 B.C. through the fourth century A.D., eastern and southern African history was invigorated by technological change and intricately reshaped by the clash of distinctive cultures. Contrary to common presumption, he argues, Africans of this period were not isolated actors on their own historical stage, but direct and indirect participants in the major trends of contemporary world history, such as the Iron Age and the first great rise of long-distance… Read More
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