Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875

Trevor Getz is associate professor of history at San Francisco State. University, where he regularly teaches courses in African and world history. Getz is the author of the monograph, Slavery and Reform in West Africa (2004) and is the co-author of Exchanges: A Reader in Global History (Pearson 2008), and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global History (Pearson 2011). He is extremely active in both the World History Association and the African Studies Association.

• Series Introduction ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds ; A Place to begin ; Spirit power and state power in Burganda ; Xhosa worlds: homestad, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors ; Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state ; Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies ; Imperial Tunis ; Reigning in greed and anarchy in BaKongo and Jaga state and society ; Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony ; Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era ; An Oceanic era ; Mediterranean Africa ; Atlantic Africa ; Indian Ocean Africa ; Feature: The Chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity ; Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa ; African <"world>" and African <"traditional>" religions ; African Islam in the eighteenth century ; African Christianity and Protestant evangelism ; Feature: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing ; Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution ; Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa ; Africans and the industrial revolution ; Settlers, peasants, and plantations ; Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt ; Chapter 5: Africans write back ; Men and women in the middle? ; Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam ; The Abbe Boilat ; James Africanus Horton ; The <"educated men>" of the Fante Confederation ; Jan Tzatzoe in Britain ; Towards colonialism?

Select Guide Rating