The Golden Rhinoceros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Rhinoceros write by François-Xavier Fauvelle. This book was released on 2021-02-09. The Golden Rhinoceros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist, the author reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. He looks at ruined cities found in the mangrove, exquisite pieces of art, rare artifacts like the golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe, ancient maps, and accounts left by geographers and travelers
Medieval Africa, 1250-1800
Medieval Africa, 1250-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Africa, 1250-1800 write by Roland Anthony Oliver. This book was released on 2001-08-16. Medieval Africa, 1250-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revised edition of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800, ideal for University and college teaching.
Rupert the Rhinoceros
Rupert the Rhinoceros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rupert the Rhinoceros write by Carl Memling. This book was released on 1960. Rupert the Rhinoceros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rupert, a young rhino, charges everything because he has bad eyes and can't see things clearly. Everyone is afraid of him until a doctor fits himwith glasses.
Clara's Grand Tour
Clara's Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clara's Grand Tour write by Glynis Ridley. This book was released on 2005-11. Clara's Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.
A Fistful of Shells
A Fistful of Shells - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fistful of Shells write by Toby Green. This book was released on 2019-03-21. A Fistful of Shells available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
