ENGLISH 240: Studies in World Literature

 

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Exploration of Africa
Books | Journal Articles | Websites

Selected Books

Age of Exploration
G80.H2

Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 v.)
REF DT3.A249

Africa: A New Geographical Survey
DT12.2.M66

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience (5 v.)
REF DT14.A37435

The African Experience
DT20.O386

The African Genius
DT4.D38

Discovery of Africa
DT3.H32

Tales of the African Frontier
DT365.H85

Unrolling the Map
G80.O8

Why in the World
G116.D48

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Selected Journal Articles

Behrendt, Stephen D., David Eltis,and David Richardson. "The costs of coercion: African agency in the pre-modern Atlantic world.." Economic History Review 54.3 (Aug. 2001): 454-476.

Bruce Jr., Dickson D. "National identity and African-American colonization, 1773-1817." Historian 58.1 (Autumn 1995): 15.

Casson, Lionel. "Setting the Stage for Columbus.." Archaeology 43.3 (May 1990): 50-55.

Harmon, Daniel E., and Richard E. Leakey. "The Dark Continent.." (0-7910-5453-5). 7. Facts on File, 2002.

Hoffman, Bernard G. "Account of a Voyage Conducted in 1529 to the New World, Africa, Madagascar, and Sumatra, Translated from the Italian, with Notes and Comments." Ethnohistory 10.1 (Winter 1963): 1.

Mazrui, Ali A. "The Re-invention of Africa: Edward Said, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond." 68-82. Indiana University Press, 2005.

Sisay, Hassan Bailey. "African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries." American Historical Review 110.3 (June 2005): 762-763.

Wilson, Samuel M. "The emperor's giraffe." Natural History 101.12 (Dec. 1992): 22.

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Websites

African Explorers

European Exploration: Africa

European Voyages of Exploration: Africa

Exploring Africa

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Contact: Rob Walsh, Reference & Instruction Librarian
Updated: October 2007