Past and presentism: the 'precolonial' and the foreshortening of African history

This article considers the marginalization of precolonial history from mainstream Africanist scholarship in recent decades, and argues that this can be understood in the context of a scholarly culture that attributes an exaggerated significance to the history of the twentieth century. The article hi...

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Tác giả chính: Reid, R
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Cambridge University Press 2011