African history books

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Life after Guns: Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia

Life after Guns: Reciprocity and Respect among Young...

Author: Abby Hardgrove
ISBN: 9780813573489
Format: Hardback
$266.51

Explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape...  Read More >>

Better Than Some, Worse Than Others: The Way It Was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980's and 90's.

Better Than Some, Worse Than Others: The Way It Was:...

Author: Wayne Webster ,  Nicole Webster and Ribyn Thorne
ISBN: 9781525503542
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative...  Read More >>

The Scramble for Africa: The History and Legacy of the Colonization of Africa by European Nations during the New Imperialism Era

The Scramble for Africa: The History and Legacy of the...

Author: Charles River
ISBN: 9781548048600
Format: Paperback
$29.41

"*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography...  Read More >>

Four Months Besieged the Story of Ladysmith

Four Months Besieged the Story of Ladysmith

Author: Henry Hiram Steere Pearse
ISBN: 9781548013035
Format: Paperback
$34.29

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY The declaration of war-Sir George White and the defence of Natal-The force at Glencoe-Battle...  Read More >>

Modern South Africa in World History: Beyond Imperialism

Modern South Africa in World History: Beyond Imperialism...

Author: Dr Rob Skinner (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781441122728
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication....  Read More >>

The Boys Book of Explorations: True Stories of the Heroes of Travel and Discovery in Africa, Asia, and Australia; From the  dark Ages  to the  wonderful Century  (Classic Reprint)

The Boys Book of Explorations: True Stories of the Heroes...

Author: Tudor Jenks
ISBN: 9781334300141
Format: Paperback
$32.58

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Better Than Some, Worse Than Others: The Way It Was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980's and 90's.

Better Than Some, Worse Than Others: The Way It Was:...

Author: Wayne Webster ,  Nicole Webster and Ribyn Thorne
ISBN: 9781525503535
Format: Hardback
$75.01

Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative...  Read More >>

Mining Africa: Law, Environment, Society and Politics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Mining Africa: Law, Environment, Society and Politics...

Author: Artwell Nhemachena ,  Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa
ISBN: 9789956764327
Format: Paperback
$69.86

This book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal...  Read More >>

Alger Historique

Alger Historique

Author: Mo Bacha
ISBN: 9780692876848
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Pour arriver a comprendre le Maghreb, il faut passer par Alger, Tunis et Marrakech. Ce premier livre Alger Historique,...  Read More >>

The people’s war: Reflections of an ANC cadre

The people’s war: Reflections of an ANC cadre

Author: Charles Nqakula
ISBN: 9780620756334
Format: Paperback
$284.63

The People’s War is an outstanding contribution to the historiography of our revolutionary struggle. It is well-written,...  Read More >>

Divided country: The history of South African cricket retold - 1914-1960

Divided country: The history of South African cricket...

Author: A. Odendaal ,  K. Reddy
ISBN: 9781928246169
Format: Paperback
$87.85

Divided Country explains how segregation and apartheid became entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa...  Read More >>

Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing

Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing...

Author: Andrew van der Vlies
ISBN: 9780198793762
Format: Hardback
$129.38

This book asks how a selection of South African writers have responded to the period since the end of apartheid....  Read More >>

Jan Smuts: Afrikaner sonder grense

Jan Smuts: Afrikaner sonder grense

Author: Richard Steyn
ISBN: 9781868427420
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Jan Christiaan Smuts was 'n soldaat, staatsman, intellektueel en een van Suid-Afrika se grootste leiers. Tog word...  Read More >>

S.E.K. Mqhayi: Volume 4: Iziganeko zesizwe: Occasional poems (1900–1943) publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa literature

S.E.K. Mqhayi: Volume 4: Iziganeko zesizwe: Occasional...

Author: Jeff Opland ,  Peter T. Mtuze
ISBN: 9781869143343
Format: Paperback
$82.67

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875-1945) was the most prominent South African imbongi of his day, a Xhosa oral poet...  Read More >>

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint in South Africa

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint...

Author: Juliette Leeb-Du Toit
ISBN: 9781869143145
Format: Paperback
$168.19

The cross-cultural usage of a particular cloth type - blueprint - is central to South African cultural history....  Read More >>

Ubuntutu: Tributes to Archbishop Desmond and Leah Tutu by Quilt Artists from South Africa and the United States

Ubuntutu: Tributes to Archbishop Desmond and Leah Tutu...

Author: Marsha MacDowell ,  Aleia Brown
ISBN: 9780944311264
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This book, which accompanies an exhibition by the same name, is a collaborative project of the Michigan State University...  Read More >>

Guide to Sieges of South Africa

Guide to Sieges of South Africa

Author: Nicki von der Heyde
ISBN: 9781775842019
Format: Paperback
$42.24

In this companion volume to the highly successful Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, the pivotal sieges...  Read More >>

The Lone-Star of Liberia: Being the Outcome of Reflections on our own People

The Lone-Star of Liberia: Being the Outcome of Reflections...

Author: Frederick Alexander Durham
ISBN: 9783337031381
Format: Paperback
$78.92

The Lone-Star of Liberia - Being the Outcome of Reflections on our own People is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...  Read More >>

First Blood in North Africa: Operation Torch and the U.S. Campaign in Africa in WWII

First Blood in North Africa: Operation Torch and the...

Author: Jon Diamond
ISBN: 9780811717779
Format: Paperback
$52.99

In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the United States launched Operation Torch, the invasion of...  Read More >>

"Obeah"" and Other Martinican Stories"

"Obeah"" and Other Martinican Stories"

Author: Marie-Magdeleine Carbet ,  E. Anthony Hurley
ISBN: 9781611862379
Format: Paperback
$34.10

This volume comprises French versions and English translations of seven short stories written by Marie-Magdeleine...  Read More >>

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and...

Author: Candice Millard
ISBN: 9780307948786
Format: Paperback
$47.52

At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England...  Read More >>

The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity

The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and...

Author: Gavin Murray-Miller
ISBN: 9780803290648
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization...  Read More >>

Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination

Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and...

Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
ISBN: 9780813054407
Format: Hardback
$197.87

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Colors of Africa

Colors of Africa

Author: James Kilgo
ISBN: 9780820352190
Format: Hardback
$221.63

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