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History of Africa RESOURCE GUIDE Booth Library Eastern Illinois University History of Africa A Selected List of Resources Booth Library has a large collection of learning resources to support the study of the history of Africa by undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The materials are held in the reference collection, the main book holdings, the journal collection and the online full-text databases. Books and journal articles from other libraries may be obtained using interlibrary loan. This is a subject guide to selected works in this field that are held by the library. The citations on this list represent only a small portion of the available literature owned by Booth Library. Additional materials can be found by searching the EIU Online Catalog. To find books, browse the shelves in these call numbers for the following subject areas: DT1-3415: History of Africa GN550-674: Ethnic Groups, by region or country HT851-1445: Slavery Reference Sources Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara ……………………………………………. REF DT351 .E53 1997 Encyclopedia of African History …………………………………………………………. REF DT20 .E53 2005 Encyclopedia of African History and Culture ……………………………………………... REF DT3 .P27 2005 Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures, and Environments ………………………………………………………………….. REF DT2 .E53 1997 Historical Dictionary of Algeria ……………………………………………………… REF DT283.7 .N39 2006 Historical Dictionary of Angola ………………………………………………………... REF DT1264 .J36 2004 (Reference Sources cont. on page 2) PLEASE REFER TO COLL ECTION LOCATION GUID E FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS Historical Dictionary of Burundi ……………………………………………... REF DT450.68 .E37 2006 Historical Dictionary of Egypt ……………………………………………………. REF DT75 .G65 2003 Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia ………………………………………………... REF DT381 .S55 2004 Historical Dictionary of Gabon ……………………………………………… REF DT546.15 .G37 2006 Historical Dictionary of Ghana ……………………………………………...... REF DT510.5 .O87 2005 Historical Dictionary of Kenya …………………………………………….. REF DT433.215 .M39 2000 Historical Dictionary of Lesotho ……………………………………………….. REF DT2554 .R67 2004 Historical Dictionary of Libya …………………………………………………... REF DT223.3 .S7 2006 Historical Dictionary of Madagascar ……………………………………... REF DT469.M285 A44 2005 Historical Dictionary of Morocco ……………………………………………… REF DT313.7 .P37 2006 Historical Dictionary of Nigeria ……………………………………………… REF DT515.15 .F35 2009 Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone ………………………………………... REF DT516.5 .F868 2006 Historical Dictionary of Somalia ……………………………………………… REF DT401.2 .M85 2003 Historical Dictionary of South Africa …………………………………………... REF DT1772 .S38 2000 Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic ……………………... REF DT546.35 .K353 2005 Historical Dictionary of the Sudan ……………………………………………. REF DT165.3 .V64 2002 Historical Dictionary of Tunisia …………………………………………………. REF DT244 .P47 1997 Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara ……………………………………... REF DT346.S7 P39 2006 Historical Dictionary of Zambia ……………………………………………….. REF DT3037 .G76 2008 New Encyclopedia of Africa ………………………………………………………... REF DT2 .N48 2008 General Histories of Africa Africa: A Biography of the Continent …………………………………………… Stacks DT20 .R43 1998 Africa: A Modern History …………………………………………………… Stacks DT30.5 .A76x 2005 African Experience: An Introduction …………………………………………… Stacks DT20 .K47 2010 African History: From Earliest Times to Independence ………………………. Stacks DT20 .A619 1995 African Poor: A History …………………………………………………… Stacks HC800.Z9 P625 1987 Africans: The History of a Continent …………………………………………….. Stacks DT20 .I45 2007 Approaching African History ………………………………………………….. Stacks DT19 .B74 2013x Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History ………………….. Stacks DT365.5 .C4613 2003 History of Africa ………………………………………………………………… Stacks DT20 .F33 2002 History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present ……………… Stacks BR1360.I75 1995 History of Islam in Africa ……………………………………………………. Stacks BP64.A1 H62 2000 History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present …………………………………. Stacks DT20 .R45 2009 History of North Africa ………………………………………………………... Stacks DT167 .H57 2003 History of Sub-Saharan Africa ………………………………………………… Stacks DT351 .C68 2007 Introduction to the History of Central Africa …………………………………. Stacks DT948 .W5 1967x Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths ……………………………………………….. Stacks DT115 .N45 2000 North Africa: A History from Antiquity to the Present ………………………... Stacks DT167 .N39 2009 Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c.1450-c.1850 ………………………... Stacks D210 .O94 2011 Themes in West Africa’s History ………………………………………………. Stacks DT475 .T48 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois on Africa …………………………………………………….. Stacks HT1581 .D85 2012 Country Histories Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History ………………………………………. Stacks DT295 .S74213 2001 Burundi: Biography of a Small African Country ………………………… Stacks DT450.68 .W385 2008 (Country Histories cont. on page 3) PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS Cambridge History of South Africa …………………………………………... Stacks DT1787 .C36 2010 Concise History of South Africa ……………………………………………… Stacks DT1787 .R67 1999 Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development ………………………………………………………. Stacks HC905 .F45 2005 Ethiopians: A History ………………………………………………………….. Stacks DT381 .P39 2001 History of Congo ………………………………………………………………. Stacks DT652 .G66 2002 History of Egypt ………………………………………………………………... Stacks DT100 .P47 2004 History of Ethiopia …………………………………………………………..… Stacks DT381 .A45 2007 History of Ghana …………………………………………………………….. Stacks DT510.5 .G63 2005 History of Malawi ……………………………………………………………. Stacks DT3201 .M33 2012 History of Modern Libya ………………………………………………………. Stacks DT236 .V35 2006 History of Mozambique ………………………………………………………. Stacks DT3341 .N48 1995 History of Namibia …………………………………………………………... Stacks DT1575 .W35 2011 History of Nigeria …………………………………………………………. Stacks DT515.57 .F353 2008 History of Somalia ……………………………………………………………... Stacks DT403 .N55 2013 History of South Africa ……………………………………………………….. Stacks DT1787 .B43 2014 History of the Sudan, From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day ……….. Stacks DT156.4 .H64 1988 History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800 ……………………………………… Stacks DT477 .R6 Madagascar: A Short History ………………………………………….. Stacks DT469.M285 R365 2009 South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid ……………………………... Stacks DT1757 .C526 2004x South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence …………………………... Stacks DT159.94 .L47 2012 Swazi: A South African Kingdom …………………………………………... Stacks DT971.42 .K87 1986 This is Botswana ……………………………………………………………... Stacks DT2441 .J69x 1994 Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo …………………………….. Stacks DT652 .E34 2002 Tunisia Since the Arab Conquest: The Saga of a Westernized Muslim State …. Stacks DT254 .A33 2013 Histories of Precolonial Africa Africa From the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century …………………………... Stacks DT20 .G45 1981 v.4 Africa From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century ………………………. Stacks DT20 .G45 1981 v.5 Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 …………. Stacks DT31 .T516 1998 Africa, v. 1. African History Before 1885 ………………………………….... Stacks DT20 .A61785 2000 Africa, v. 2. African Cultures and Societies Before 1885 …………………... Stacks DT20 .A61785 2000 Africa From the Seventh Century to the Eleventh Century …………………. Stacks DT20 .G45 1981 v.3 Africa’s Discovery of Europe: 1450 to 1850 ……………………………... Stacks DT353.5.E9 N67 2009 Ancient Ghana and Mali ……………………………………………………. Stacks DT532.15 .L48 1973 Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 ……………………………………………………….. Stacks DT512.9.E46 D43 2001 Before European Hegemony ……………………………………………………. Stacks HC41 .A28 1989 Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897 …………………………………….. Stacks DT515.9.B37 R9 1969 Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa 200-1860 ……. Stacks DT1107 .H35 1990 Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the 14th Century ……... Stacks DT356 .B6 1968 History of West Africa ……………………………………………………………….. Stacks DT475 .A77 Medieval Africa, 1250-1800 …………………………………………………….. Stacks DT25 .O39 2001 Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims Along the Middle Nile …………………………………………... Stacks DT159.6.N83 W45 2002 Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923 …………………………….. Stacks DR486 .M33 1997 (Histories of Precolonial Africa cont. on page 4) PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900 …………………….. Stacks HT1419.G93 H38 2003 Trade and Conflict in Angola: The Mbundu and Their Neighbours Under the Influence of the Portuguese, 1483-1790 …………………………… Stacks DT604 .B5 Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720: A Study of the African Reaction to European Trade ……………………………………………… Stacks HF3899.G64 E83 1970x Histories of Africa and Slavery African Slave Trade; Precolonial History, 1450-1850 ………………………. Stacks DT352 .D33 1961x Atlantic Slave Trade …………………………………………………………... Stacks HT1322 .P67 2003 Atlas of Slavery ………………………………………………………………... Stacks HT861 .W33 2006 Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean ……………………………….... Stacks HT1345 .W45 2011 Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838 …………………………….. Stacks HT1394.S6 S48 1994 Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa ……………….. Stacks HD4875.S36 H55 2012 Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815 ………………………………..
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