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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War 

byHoward French

Born in Blackness is Howard French's biographical portrait of africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Liveright

Publication date

2021-10-12

Format

Print edition

Pages

512

ISBN

9781631495823