An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to Ad 400

by Christopher Ehret

Book Overview

In An African Classical Age, Christopher Ehret brings to light 1,400 years of social and economic transformation across Africa from Uganda and Kenya in the north to Natal and the Cape in the south. The book offers a much-needed portrait of this region during a crucial period in which basic features of precolonial African societies and cultures emerged.

Combining the most recent findings of archaeology and historical linguistics, the author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920574
• ISBN13: 9780813920573
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"