Trans-Saharan Africa in World History by Ralph A. Austen
Call Number: DT333 .A94 2010
ISBN: 0195157311
Publication Date: 2010-04-19
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic - the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold,slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trading. Perhaps the mostenduring impact of this trade and the common cultural reference point of trans-Saharan Africa was Islam. Austen traces this faith in its various forms--as a legal system for regulating trade, an inspiration for reformist movements, and a vehicle of literacy and cosmopolitan knowledge. He alsoanalyzes the impact of European overseas expansion, which marginalized trans-Saharan commerce in global terms but stimulated its local growth. Indeed, trans-Saharan culture not only adapted to colonial changes, but often thrived upon them, remaining a potent force into the twenty-firstcentury.
Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Africana Studies by Marion Azevedo
ISBN: 089089485X
Publication Date: 2005, available through interlibrary loans
The third edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora is an update of the second edition (1998) and incorporates new chapters that include expanded coverage of issues on women, health, terrorism, the African Union, and many others, as well as the most recent theories and methods in Africana studies. To date, Africana Studies remains the most comprehensive and most suitable text for both teachers and students interested in Africa and the Diaspora in the US, the Caribbean, Afro-Latin-America, and elsewhere. The book is divided into five parts: the state of the art of Africana studies; the evolution of the history of black people; analysis of the contributions of the black world; the present and future status of these peoples; and the societies and values of black people. The book also includes a chronology of significant events in the history of peoples of African descent and a number of maps.
Azevedo, Mario Joaquim, ed. Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora. 2nd ed. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1998.
Click the link above to request this book through Interlibrary Loan.
Bohannan, Paul, and Philip D Curtin. Africa & Africans. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1964.
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert O. Collins; James McDonald Burns
ISBN: 052168708X
Publication Date: 2007 -- available through Interlibrary loan
In a trawl through the entire sweep of sub-Saharan history, the authors have written an accessible introduction for students and general readers. The opening chapter on geography and climate frames the discussion, demonstrating how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of those living in the region. Thereafter they describe the rise of states and empires in the classical period, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, and the European conquest. The concluding section focuses on Africa in the twentieth century as it gains independence and searches for a new identity beyond colonialism. While the authors mull over the debates which have shaped the study of African history, at the center of this story are the tragedies, triumphs and the resilience of the African people. The book is illustrated with photographs, maps, and sidebars which feature the salient points on either side of the debates.
Collins, Robert O., and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Call Number: DT20 .A619 1995
ISBN: 0582050707
Publication Date: 1995
Long established as a standard work, this famous survey explores the history of Africa from earliest times to the end of the colonial period. It is exceptional in its breadth (it provides systematic coverage of the entire continent, including the North), in its range (it establishes a clear political framework, but is still more concerned with social, economic and intellectual trends), and in its quality. Now in this major revision -- the first since 1979 -- its four distinguished authors have reworked, updated and expanded the text, which has also been redesigned and reset.
Curtin, Philip D, Steve Feierman, Jan Vansina, and Leonard Thompson, eds. African History: From the Earliest Times to Independence. London: Longman, 1978.
See Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa - Aga Khan Museum
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa. Dr. Mark V. Campbell, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC);
agakhanmuseum.org
Mali Bibliography
http://africaaccessreview.org/mali-bibliography/
9-12 Lesson Plans
https://agakhanmuseum.org/learn/pdf/CaravansOfGoldCurriculum2019.pdf
Below, please find K-12 worksheets that we can use for the professional development workshop.
http://chicagohistoryresources.org/greatchicagostories/pdf/worksheets/highschool/artifact_wk_hs_edited2.pdf
https://archiveseducate.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/archival-artifact-analysis-worksheet2.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/worksheets/artifact_analysis_worksheet.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/worksheets/artifact_analysis_worksheet_former.pdf
Trans-Saharan Africa in World History by Ralph A. Austen
Call Number: DT333 .A94 2010
ISBN: 0195157311
Publication Date: 2010-04-19
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic - the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold,slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trading. Perhaps the mostenduring impact of this trade and the common cultural reference point of trans-Saharan Africa was Islam. Austen traces this faith in its various forms--as a legal system for regulating trade, an inspiration for reformist movements, and a vehicle of literacy and cosmopolitan knowledge. He alsoanalyzes the impact of European overseas expansion, which marginalized trans-Saharan commerce in global terms but stimulated its local growth. Indeed, trans-Saharan culture not only adapted to colonial changes, but often thrived upon them, remaining a potent force into the twenty-firstcentury.
Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
ISBN: 089089485X
Publication Date: 2005, available through interlibrary loans
The third edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora is an update of the second edition (1998) and incorporates new chapters that include expanded coverage of issues on women, health, terrorism, the African Union, and many others, as well as the most recent theories and methods in Africana studies. To date, Africana Studies remains the most comprehensive and most suitable text for both teachers and students interested in Africa and the Diaspora in the US, the Caribbean, Afro-Latin-America, and elsewhere. The book is divided into five parts: the state of the art of Africana studies; the evolution of the history of black people; analysis of the contributions of the black world; the present and future status of these peoples; and the societies and values of black people. The book also includes a chronology of significant events in the history of peoples of African descent and a number of maps.
Azevedo, Mario Joaquim, ed. Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora. 2nd ed. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1998.
Click the link above to request this book through Interlibrary Loan.
Bohannan, Paul, and Philip D Curtin. Africa & Africans. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1964.
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert O. Collins; James McDonald Burns
ISBN: 052168708X
Publication Date: 2007 -- available through Interlibrary loan
In a trawl through the entire sweep of sub-Saharan history, the authors have written an accessible introduction for students and general readers. The opening chapter on geography and climate frames the discussion, demonstrating how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of those living in the region. Thereafter they describe the rise of states and empires in the classical period, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, and the European conquest. The concluding section focuses on Africa in the twentieth century as it gains independence and searches for a new identity beyond colonialism. While the authors mull over the debates which have shaped the study of African history, at the center of this story are the tragedies, triumphs and the resilience of the African people. The book is illustrated with photographs, maps, and sidebars which feature the salient points on either side of the debates.
Collins, Robert O., and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Call Number: DT20 .A619 1995
ISBN: 0582050707
Publication Date: 1995
Long established as a standard work, this famous survey explores the history of Africa from earliest times to the end of the colonial period. It is exceptional in its breadth (it provides systematic coverage of the entire continent, including the North), in its range (it establishes a clear political framework, but is still more concerned with social, economic and intellectual trends), and in its quality. Now in this major revision -- the first since 1979 -- its four distinguished authors have reworked, updated and expanded the text, which has also been redesigned and reset.
Curtin, Philip D, Steve Feierman, Jan Vansina, and Leonard Thompson, eds. African History: From the Earliest Times to Independence. London: Longman, 1978.