Böcker av Trevor R. Getz

This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500-present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.

An exploration of major historical developments of global significance the Atlantic slave trade, industrialization, colonialism, the World Wars, decolonization, and feminism from the perspectives of Africans who experienced them"

A Primer for Teaching African History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching African history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, and for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own African history syllabi.

By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, this book reveals the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, and also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations.