African history books

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Air Wars Over Congo, Volume 1: 1960-1968: From Belgian Congo Force Publique Air Wing to the Mercenary Revolts

Air Wars Over Congo, Volume 1: 1960-1968: From Belgian...

Author: Daniel Kowalczuk
ISBN: 9781911628644
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Volume I of Air Wars over The Congo provides detailed coverage of the aircraft and air forces involved in an entire...  Read More >>

A History Of South Africa To 1870

A History Of South Africa To 1870

Author: Monica Wilson ,  Leonard Thompson
ISBN: 9780367169459
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This book is aimed towards advancing an understanding of the South African past essential to an appreciation of...  Read More >>

Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making

Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making...

Author: Kathleen Klaus (University of San Francisco)
ISBN: 9781108726467
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Across much of the democratizing world, land and natural resource conflict are increasingly common sources of political...  Read More >>

France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization...

Author: Nathaniel K. Powell (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781108738620
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad's civil wars in the first two decades of its independence...  Read More >>

Egypt

Egypt

Author: Sloane Gould ,  Kate Shoup
ISBN: 9781502663924
Format: Paperback
$32.10

Egypt is a country that has existed for many centuries. It is a land of pyramids, pharaohs, and history. This book...  Read More >>

Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970

Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale...

Author: Terje Østebø (University of Florida)
ISBN: 9781108813563
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Discussing an armed insurgency in south-eastern Ethiopia from 1963-1970, a time when a range of liberation struggles...  Read More >>

Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975

Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse...

Author: Natalia Telepneva
ISBN: 9781469665863
Format: Paperback
$63.80

An innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of...  Read More >>

Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS

Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention, and Social...

Author: Koreen M. Reece (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009150224
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours and community, this offers an intimate...  Read More >>

The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region

The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military...

Author: Gwyn Campbell (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781316511718
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities...  Read More >>

Egypt

Egypt

Author: Sloane Gould ,  Kate Shoup
ISBN: 9781502663948
Format: Hardback
$83.53

Egypt is a country that has existed for many centuries. It is a land of pyramids, pharaohs, and history. This book...  Read More >>

Islam Before Modernity: Aḥmad al-Dardīr and the Preservation of Traditional Knowledge

Islam Before Modernity: Aḥmad al-Dardīr and the Preservation...

Author: Walead Mosaad
ISBN: 9781463243807
Format: Hardback
$382.80

This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ‘ulamā’,...  Read More >>

Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975

Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse...

Author: Natalia Telepneva
ISBN: 9781469665856
Format: Hardback
$152.90

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Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century...

Author: Christopher Silver
ISBN: 9781503631687
Format: Paperback
$50.95

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant...  Read More >>

Augustine's Preached Theology: Living as the Body of Christ

Augustine's Preached Theology: Living as the Body of...

Author: J Patout Burns
ISBN: 9780802880222
Format: Hardback
$118.80

"""A survey and discussion of the core thematic elements of Augustine's sermons as they developed over his lifetime""--"...  Read More >>

Africa's Gold Coast Through Portuguese Sources, 1469-1680

Africa's Gold Coast Through Portuguese Sources, 1469-1680...

Author: Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University)
ISBN: 9780197267066
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Konadu provides a unique collection of sources written in Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish for Africa's...  Read More >>

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid...

Author: Evan Lieberman
ISBN: 9780691203003
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracy At a time when many democracies are under strain...  Read More >>

The Dutch Rediscover the Dutch-Africans (1847–1900): Brother Nation or Lost Colony?

The Dutch Rediscover the Dutch-Africans (1847–1900):...

Author: Andrew Burnett
ISBN: 9789004521223
Format: Hardback
$332.64

By exploring and connecting original sources in Dutch, Afrikaans and English this work illuminates an ignored and...  Read More >>

Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century...

Author: Christopher Silver
ISBN: 9781503630567
Format: Hardback
$170.95

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant...  Read More >>

Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries

Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries

Author: Paul S. Landau
ISBN: 9780821424704
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto...  Read More >>

Illegaler Waffenhandel in imperialen Grenzregionen: Randfiguren im sudlichen Afrika und Nordamerika im spaten 19. Jahrhundert

Illegaler Waffenhandel in imperialen Grenzregionen:...

Author: Yves Schmitz
ISBN: 9783412525736
Format: Hardback
$188.86

The systematic comparison of two border regions in southern Africa and North America in the second half of the 19th...  Read More >>

Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations of South Africa’s Constitution

Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations...

Author: André Odendaal
ISBN: 9781776096688
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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