African Histories: New Sources and New Techniques for Studying African Pasts

by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia and Trevor R. Getz

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A multidisciplinary study of African pasts: method, content, ethics and philosophy come together in one place.


African Histories gives readers a rich understanding of Africa's complex history through a wide variety of sources while exposing them to the African voice. The text offers examples of how scholars have, over the past 60 years, demonstrated Africa's detailed history. It is about how historians interpret the past by giving full and adequate attention to the stories of Africans in ways that can be meaningful and acceptable to Africans and researchers alike. The text is titled African Histories in recognition of the diversity of sources and ways in which they are examined.

  • ISBN10 0136155588
  • ISBN13 9780136155584
  • Publish Date 3 November 2011
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Pearson
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 312
  • Language English