A history of West Central Africa to 1850 /

A history of West Central Africa to 1850 /

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Author / Creator:	Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xx, 365 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New approaches to African history ; 15 New approaches to African history ; 15.
Subject:	Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- To 1884. Africa, Central -- History -- To 1884. Central Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12317905

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ISBN:	9781107127159 1107127157 9781107565937 1107565936 9781316411568
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"For purposes of this study, I am defining West Central Africa largely by the watershed of the Congo River. If the region has a hydrographic center, it is the Lunda Plateau in eastern Angola, a relatively flat region at roughly 1000 meters elevation, origin of many of the largest effluents of the Congo. This highland continues eastward until it reaches the great range of mountains that define the Rift Valley, and separate it from the Nile system. Because human geography is not always identical to natural geography, there are additions to this defined space. An important addition is the rivers that drain from the low mountains that define the western end of the Congo watershed that flow westward into the Atlantic Ocean which are included in the study because many political units had borders that straddled the two, like the kingdoms of Ndongo and Kasanje which were regularly engaged on both sides of the Kwango watershed, or the Luyana Kingdom which lay squarely in the Zambezi River watershed but was in substantial communication with the Lunda Empire. I have also left out the river systems that flow southward into the Congo from the Central African Republic, and the great northern bend of the Congo that they nourish because there was very little engagement by areas lying south of that with them or that is identified in the present historiography"--
Other form:	Online version: Thornton, John K., 1949- A history of west central Africa to 1850 Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 9781316411568

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