The Atlas of African Affairs

ISBN-13: 9780415054881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 248 str.

Ieuan L. Griffiths

Opis

The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardized outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps. The basic format of integrated text and maps is supplemented by guides to further reading at the end of each section as well as a series of detailed statistical tables at the end of the book.

Recenzje

From reviews of the first edition:'... one of the handiest reference books available on Africa.' - Geography

'... easily the best of its kind. It is authoritative, unbiased and lucid.' - Geographical Journal

'Every conceivable topic from the languages spoken and endemic diseases to physical, religous and ideological barriers or affinities are traced in both their past and present contexts.' - Geographical Magazine

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; partA Environmental; Chapter 2 Africa: barrier peninsula; Chapter 3 The physique of Africa; Chapter 4 Sunshine and storm; Chapter 5 Soils; Chapter 6 Vegetation; Chapter 7 Drought; Chapter 8 Disease and pestilence; Chapter 9 Population; Chapter 10 Languages; Chapter 11 Literacy; Chapter 12 Quality of life; Chapter 13 Further reading; partB Histrorical; Chapter 14 Africa: cradle of humankind; Chapter 15 Pre-European history; Chapter 16 European penetration to 1880; Chapter 17 Slave trades; Chapter 18 The scramble for Africa; Chapter 19 Colonial Africa; Chapter 20 The advance of independence; Chapter 21 Further reading; partC Political; Chapter 22 The states of modern Africa; Chapter 23 Boundary problems; Chapter 24 Land-locked states; Chapter 25 A political pecking order; Chapter 26 Africa must unite!; Chapter 27 Libya and its neighbours; Chapter 28 Coups d'étatand military rule; Chapter 29 Zaire: the threat of secessionism; Chapter 30 Nigeria: strength through unity; Chapter 31 Uganda: ravaged Garden of Eden; Chapter 32 Liberia: a civil war spills over; Chapter 33 Somalia: irredentism to civil war; Chapter 34 Angola: a cold war killing field; Chapter 35 The French connection; Chapter 36 Kamerun, Cameroun, Cameroon; Chapter 37 African imperialism: Ethiopia and Eritrea; Chapter 38 African imperialism: Morocco and Western Sahara; Chapter 39 Further reading; partD Economics; Chapter 40 Poverty; Chapter 41 National economies; Chapter 42 Traditional economic systems; Chapter 43 Causes of famine; Chapter 44 Cash crops and colonialism; Chapter 45 War, disaster and refugees; Chapter 46 Development and population growth; Chapter 47 International development aid; Chapter 48 Debt, the IMF and restructuring; Chapter 49 Ghana and Ivory Coast: different development paths; Chapter 50 Minerals and mining; Chapter 51 Zambia: a mining economy; Chapter 52 Manufacturing; Chapter 53 Wildlife and tourism; Chapter 54 Kenya: capitalism and tourism; Chapter 55 Migrator

O autorze

Ieuan Ll. Griffiths is Reader in Geography at the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.