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	1 Burns, Robert; Smith, Sydney Goodsir (Introduction by) A Choice of Burns' Poems and Songs London and Boston Faber and Faber 1966 0571068359 / 9780571068357 First edition thus Trade Paperback Good  155 pp., index; 20 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning.  Price: 3.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Collins, Robert O., and Burns, James M. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007 052168708X / 9780521687089 Soft Cover Good  xii, 406 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 26 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. "Robert O. Collins is Emeritus Professor of History in the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books are The Nile (2002), and with Millard Burr, Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 (2003), and Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World (2006)." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. The historical geography of Africa; 2. Kingdoms on the Nile; 3. The peoples of sub-Saharan Africa: society, culture and language; 4. Crops, cows and iron; 5. North-East Africa in the age of Aksum; 6. Empires of the plains; 7. East Africa and the Indian Ocean world; 8. The lake plateau of East Africa; 9. Societies and states of the West African forest; 10. Kingdoms and trade in Central Africa; 11.The peoples and states of Southern Africa; 12. The arrival of the Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa; 13. Diseases and crops: old and new; 14. Slavery in Africa; 15. The Atlantic slave trade; 16. The Asian slave trade; 17. Prelude to the European conquest of Africa; 18. The European conquest of Africa; 19. Africans, Dutch and the British in South Africa, 1480-1910; 20. European colonial rule in Africa; 21. The colonial legacy; 22. Nationalism and the independence of colonial Africa; 23. The union of South Africa and the apartheid state; 24. A decade of hope; 25. Cold War Africa; 26. Africa at the beginning of the twenty-first century.  Price: 11.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart