Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a "cosmopolitan Africa" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural perspectives, Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, helps students to re-envision African societies in the time before colonization.

About the Author
Trevor Getz is associate professor of history at San Francisco State. University, where he regularly teaches courses in African and world history. Getz is the author of the monograph, Slavery and Reform in West Africa (2004) and is the co-author of Exchanges: A Reader in Global History (Pearson 2008), and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global History (Pearson 2011). He is extremely active in both the World History Association and the African Studies Association.


Book Information
ISBN 9780199764709
Author Professor Trevor Getz
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 136g
Dimensions(mm) 137mm * 206mm * 10mm