"Solid, well-written introduction to the ancient East African civilization named in the title.... An excellent resource for young researchers."--Booklist

Great Zimbabwe (Digging for the Past)

Hall, Martin

Stefoff, Rebecca

History

Oxford University Press

In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement of the earliest farmers nearly two thousand years ago, Hall tracks the emergence of precolonial states such as Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Farmers, Kings, and Traders concludes with the devastating effects of colonialism. Through a close reading of the accounts of early travelers, colonialists, archaeologists, and historians, Hall places in context the often contradictory histories that have been written of this region. The result is an illuminating look at how ideas about the past have themselves changed over time.

Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860

Africa

University of Chicago Press

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades (Crusade Texts in Translation)

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between holy war and financial gain. Caffaro’s main composition, the ’Annals’ of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also covers the city’s dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire, Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa itself. Sections from Caffaro’s continuators take the story down to the Third Crusade. Caffaro’s two other texts are exclusively about the crusades: ’The Liberation of the Cities of the East’ and ’The Capture of AlmerÃa and Tortosa’, while associated with him but of a later date is the ’Short History of Jerusalem’. Alongside these narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their own right. Placed alongside Caffaro’s narratives they can show the blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the medieval Mediterranean.

Phillips, Jonathan

Europe

Routledge

Archaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In this study the author places an emphasis on material culture and the recent past to bring to light a picture of an unstable and violent early colonial world in which material culture played a crucial mediating role.

Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and Chesapeake

Archaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In this study the author places an emphasis on material culture and the recent past to bring to light a picture of an unstable and violent early colonial world in which material culture played a crucial mediating role.

Archaeology and the Modern World

Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books Table of Contents Archaeology in AfricaThe Scope of ArchaeologyPublic ArchaeologyQuestionsSurveying &amp; SamplingExcavationTimePeople &amp; their EnvironmentMaking ItFoodNetworksIn the MindWriting the PastPast Tense

Archaeology Africa

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

BOYE6

The changing past: Farmers, kings, and traders in southern Africa, 200-1860 (The People of southern Africa)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

D. Philip

Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present.  South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books

David Philip, Publishers

Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition

Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks

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Great Zimbabwe (Digging for the Past)

Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades (Crusade Texts in Translation)

Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and Chesapeake

Archaeology and the Modern World

Archaeology Africa

The changing past: Farmers, kings, and traders in southern Africa, 200-1860 (The People of southern Africa)

Archaeology Africa

Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition

Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks