Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture - Paperback

by Eugenia W. Herbert (Author)

The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa
A finalist for the 1985 Herskovits Prize
First Paperback Edition

Author Biography

Eugenia W. Herbert is the E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College and book review editor of the African Studies Review. Among her recent publications are Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies and Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.