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Oliver Dunn and James Kelley, Jr., The Diario of Christopher Columbus's
First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1989).
As an antidote to this book's mostly dispassionate account of how peoples
conquered or slaughtered other peoples, read the classic account of
the destruction of the Yahi tribelet of northern California and the emergence
of Ishi, its solitary survivor: Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961). The disappearance of
native languages in the Americas and elsewhere is the subject of Robert
Robins and Eugenius Uhlenbeck, Endangered Languages (Providence:
Berg, 1991), Joshua Fishman, Reversing Language Shift (Clevedon: Multilingual
Matters, 1991), and Michael Krauss, "The world's languages in
crisis," Language 68:4-10 (1992).
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Books on the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the African continent
include Roland Oliver and Brian Fagan, Africa in the Iron Age (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1975), Roland Oliver and J. D. Fage,
A Short History of Africa, 5th ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), J. D.
Fage, A History of Africa (London: Hutchinson, 1978), Roland Oliver,
The African Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991), Thurstan
Shaw et al., eds., The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals, and Towns
(New York: Routledge, 1993), and David Phillipson, African Archaeology,
2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Correlations
between linguistic and archaeological evidence of Africa's past are summarized
by Christopher Ehret and Merrick Posnansky, eds., The Archaeological
and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1982). The role of disease is discussed by Gerald Hartwig
and K. David Patterson, eds., Disease in African History (Durham:
Duke University Press, 1978).
As for food production, many of the listed further readings for Chapters
4-10 discuss Africa. Also of note are Christopher Ehret, "On the antiquity
of agriculture in Ethiopia," Journal of African History 20:161-77 (1979);
J. Desmond Clark and Steven Brandt, eds., From Hunters to Farmers: The
Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1984); Art Hansen and Delia McMillan, eds.,