Contents Series Foreword Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling ix Preface xiii Acknowl­edgments xix Acronyms and Abbreviations xxi Timeline of Historical Events xxv 1 An Overview of Geography, Earliest ­Peoples, States, and Socie­ties to the Seventh ­Century BCE 1 2 Traders, Merchants, and Invaders, Seventh ­ Century BCE–16th ­ Century CE 19 3 The Italian Colonial Conquest, 1911–1912 39 4 Colonial Rule, Anticolonial Strug­gles, and World War II, 1912–1950 53 5 In­de­pen­dence and Nation-Building, 1951–1968 75
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