Before the middle of the sixteenth century, the English derived their ideas of Africa from the Bible and the classical historians. These ancient sources continu

The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the dram

This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustain

Contributions from anthropology, history, political science, literature, the natural sciences, religion, and philosophy provide a comprehensive overview of the