Africa in Modern History. The Search for a New Society.

Harmondsworth, England: Pelican Penguin, 1987. Paperback. Africa in Modern History. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Very slight wear to bottom edge of spine. Through long previous development, the Africans of the nineteenth century had organized themselves into a very large number of communities. A hundred years later, through an extraordinary and perhaps unique experience, they became organized into some fifty nations. One phase of history came to an end, and another began. What ideas have caused this transformation, and how was Africa's particularly potent strain of nationalism motivated? In his important synthesis of African history of the last hundred years, the author writes from the belief that the new Africa flows organically out of the old; the 'colonial period' should be seen not as an episode, but as an interlude of complex and often contradictory consequences, because the new imperialism did not operate in a vacuum but within the crowded arena of African society. 431 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.