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Giles, Bridget. Myths of West Africa. Austin, TX : Raintree
Steck-Vaughn, 2002. Examines the many different peoples
that have lived in West Africa and some of the myths that
reflect their beliefs.
398.2 NAR
Nardo, Don, 1947-. Monsters. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books,
c2002. Introduction: The dragons of the past -- Ancient
Greece : the beast with a woman's face -- Ancient Persia :
the battle between good and evil -- Ancient India : demonic
enemies of gods and humans -- Ancient Africa :
shape-shifters, imps, and river monsters -- Ancient
Scandinavia : dragons and giants in a bleak world -- Ancient
North America : in the belly of the sea monster.
916 BRO
Brooks, Lester. Great civilizations of ancient Africa. New
York, : Four Winds Press, [1971]. An account of the ancient
African civilizations of Kush, Ghana, Mali, Songhay,
Kanem-Bornu, Axum (Ethiopia) and Egypt.
930 MCI
McIntosh, Jane. Civilizations : ten thousand years of ancient
history. 1st US ed. London ; New York : DK, 2001. Maps
and color photos fill this overview of the world's early
civilizations, from prehistory to the empires of the New
World, including the societies of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt,
China, Greece, Rome, and the Americas.
930.1 MOL
Moloney, N. (Norah). The young Oxford book of archaeology.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1997. Defines
archaeology, examines how archaeologists work, surveys
excavation methods, and visits archaeology sites--from
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania to the Garbage Project in America.
960 DAV
Davidson, Basil, 1914-. African kingdoms,. New York, : Time,
inc., [1966]. Surveys the history, civilizations, culture
and people of ancient Africa and explains the influence of
the past on modern African life and customs.
960 NIC
Nicolson, Colin. The making of Africa. London, New York, :
Wayland; G. P. Putnam's, 1973. Presents the history of
Africa from ancient times to the present as recorded in the
letters, diaries, and memoirs of contemporary exploreres,
merchants, missionaries, slaves, and statesmen.
960.1 ADD
Addison, John. Traditional Africa. St. Paul : Greenhaven,
c1980. Briefly discusses Africa's early societies, west and
central kingdoms, and trading cities of the east African
coast.
967 C
Chu, Daniel. A glorious age in Africa; : the story of three
great African empires. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., :
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967 DAV
Davidson, Basil, 1914-. The African slave trade. A rev. and
expanded ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1980.
FE 398.3 DAM
D'Amato, Janet. African animals through African eyes. New York
: J. Messner, [1971]. Discusses the religious and practical
significance of animals as they appear in the artifacts,
rock paintings and carvings, and legends of ancient Africa.
R 909 BRO
Brooks, Philip, 1955-. Civilizations, exploration & conquest.
London : New York : Southwater Press ; Anness Pub., c2001.
Traces the history and development of human civilization,
exploration, and conquest, following a thematic path
throughout history.
R 911 HIS
Martin Greenwald Associates. Historical maps on file. Revised
ed. New York : Facts on File, c1984. Vol. I: Ancient
civilizations -- Medieval Europe -- Europe (from 1500 to
1815) -- Europe (from 1815 to the present) -- The United
States -- Vol. II: Western Hemisphere -- Africa and the
Middle East -- Asia -- Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Over 300 black and white maps in looseleaf form for easy
duplication are organized chronologically and
geographically, with a Table of Contents in the front.
R 956 CAM
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa,.
Cambridge Univ Pr, [c1988]. A one-volume account of all
aspects of North Africa and the Middle East include the
history and geography, people, societies and economies,
culture and interstate relations, and events of
international political importance of the region.
R 960 AFR
AFRICANA : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American
Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
V 960 BEN
Benin: An African Kingdom, 1994 (Video). New Jersey : Film for
the Humanities, Inc., l994. Surveys the history,
civilization, culture, and people of Benin, Africa.
V 960 BEN
Benin: an African Kingdom, 1996 (video). New Jersey : Films for
the humanities and sciences, 1994. There is still a king or
Oba of Benin today, and he still dispenses justice to his
people. He lives in a very traditional world but has
received a British university education. Contrasts like
these are commonplace in modern Nigeria: the children shop
in the tumult of traditional market and fo to a supermarket
to buy plastic toys made in China. Overseas trade is not new
to Binin; it was taking place long before the white man
arrived. By dramatizing one of the rare accounts by a slave
captured as a child, we bring home a small part of the
horror that was the slave trade.
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