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"Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz's interpretation of a ""cosmopolitan Africa"" is based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural perspectives, Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, helps students to re-envision African societies in the time before colonization."

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<br> This is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. Cosmopolitan Africa encourages students to think not just about a key period in the history of Africa, but in doing so, it allows a rethinking of key concepts that have not been traditionally used in our perceptions of the African past. --Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Montclair State University<br><p><br> By emphasizing the cosmopolitan nature of many African societies during the formative period for modernity, Getz succeeds in shredding some of the old and tired stereotypes that habitually removed Africa from the grand narrative of world history. --Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University<br><p><br>

This is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. Cosmopolitan Africa encourages students to think not just about a key period in the history of Africa, but in doing so, it allows a rethinking of key concepts that have not been traditionally used in our perceptions of the African past.--Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Montclair State University By emphasizing the cosmopolitan nature of many African societies during the formative period for modernity, Getz succeeds in shredding some of the old and tired stereotypes that habitually removed Africa from the grand narrative of world history.--Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University

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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.

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