Books by John (University of Cambridge) Iliffe

Over twenty years this book has become the standard single-volume history of Africa for both students and general readers. Following the overarching theme of population changes, causes and consequences, it has been fully updated to incorporate developments and research findings for all periods to 2016.

John Iliffe's extensively researched 1998 history of the training and work of East African doctors since modern medicine began in the region during the 1870s discusses recruitment, education, the practice of modern medicine, and the struggle to secure professional status and to preserve it amidst recent political and economic decline.

This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour.