African history books

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The Fatimid Empire

The Fatimid Empire

Author: Michael Brett
ISBN: 9780748640768
Format: Paperback
$77.60

From its foundation at the beginning of the tenth to its final disappearance towards the end of the twelfth century,...  Read More >>

The Ignorant Bystander?: Britain and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

The Ignorant Bystander?: Britain and the Rwandan Genocide...

Author: Dean White
ISBN: 9781526107473
Format: Paperback
$56.99

The Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events in the late twentieth century and the international community's...  Read More >>

God, Man and Domesticated Animals: The Birth of Shepherds and Their Descendants in the Ancient Near East

God, Man and Domesticated Animals: The Birth of Shepherds...

Author: Yutaka Tani
ISBN: 9781925608922
Format: Hardback
$112.00

Provides a fascinating exploration into how European attitudes that measure human achievements by their extent of...  Read More >>

Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts

Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts...

Author: Leslie Witz ,  Gary Minkley
ISBN: 9780472073344
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Examines how South African society and its public pasts were constructed and presented from Nelson Mandela's release...  Read More >>

African Medical Pluralism

African Medical Pluralism

Author: William C. Olsen ,  Carolyn Sargent
ISBN: 9780253024916
Format: Paperback
$56.95

The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of...  Read More >>

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race,...

Author: Melissa Cooper
ISBN: 9781469632674
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing...  Read More >>

Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa

Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial...

Author: Martin Plaut
ISBN: 9780821422762
Format: Paperback
$86.99

The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South...  Read More >>

The Fatimid Empire

The Fatimid Empire

Author: Michael Brett
ISBN: 9780748640775
Format: Hardback
$258.75

From its foundation at the beginning of the tenth to its final disappearance towards the end of the twelfth century,...  Read More >>

African Medical Pluralism

African Medical Pluralism

Author: William C. Olsen ,  Carolyn Sargent
ISBN: 9780253024770
Format: Hardback
$151.95

The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of...  Read More >>

Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa

Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial...

Author: Martin Plaut
ISBN: 9780821422755
Format: Hardback
$211.20

The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Soldiers

The Forgotten Soldiers

Author: Elliam Moses Mulenga
ISBN: 9781480972049
Format: Paperback
$73.92

The Forgotten Soldiers gives information about African Soldiers who served with the British Army in the Second World...  Read More >>

Kente Cloth: History and Culture

Kente Cloth: History and Culture

Author: Ernest Asamoah-Yaw
ISBN: 9781524596835
Format: Paperback
$98.09

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Narrating Itsembabwoko: When Literature Becomes Testimony of Genocide

Narrating Itsembabwoko: When Literature Becomes Testimony...

Author: Josias Semujanga
ISBN: 9783034324106
Format: Electronic book text
$208.43

In this study, the mecanisms by which literature, fiction, and other narratives could become testimonial of genocide...  Read More >>

From Independence to Revolution: Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

From Independence to Revolution: Egypt's Islamists and...

Author: Gillian Kennedy
ISBN: 9781849047050
Format: Paperback
$65.00

An important account of the vicissitudes of Egypt's Islamists, informed by first-hand interviews and deep historical...  Read More >>

A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's...

Author: James Copnall
ISBN: 9781849048309
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A lively and comprehensive guide to the fraught shared destinies of Sudan and South Sudan in the years after separation...  Read More >>

The Egyptian Oracle Project: Ancient Ceremony in Augmented Reality

The Egyptian Oracle Project: Ancient Ceremony in Augmented...

Author: Robyn Gillam (Lecturer in Religious and Classical Studies, York University, Canada) ,  Jeffrey Jacobson (Executive Director, PublicVR, Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9781780932163
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This is the only book to provide detailed background, historical context and rationale for the Egyptian Oracle Project,...  Read More >>

Popular Media in Kenyan History: Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

Popular Media in Kenyan History: Fiction and Newspapers...

Author: George Ogola
ISBN: 9783319490960
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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Histoire de la R publique de C te d'Ivoire

Histoire de la R publique de C te d'Ivoire

Author: Lassy Mbouity ,  Editions Edilivre
ISBN: 9782414051113
Format: Paperback
$79.20

La C te d'Ivoire est un pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest limit au nord par le Mali et le Burkina Faso, au sud par l'oc...  Read More >>

Mbre: Abstract African Masquerades Adult Color Book

Mbre: Abstract African Masquerades Adult Color Book...

Author: Joseph B Nya
ISBN: 9781534628793
Format: Paperback
$44.80

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A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State

A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to...

Author: Vincent Hiribarren
ISBN: 9781849044745
Format: Hardback
$95.00

A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency....  Read More >>

Mesdames Messieurs Bienvenue En Egypte: Souvenirs et anecdotes de vos voyages en groupes

Mesdames Messieurs Bienvenue En Egypte: Souvenirs et...

Author: Olivier Mayeux
ISBN: 9781520395210
Format: Paperback
$41.71

Les voyages de touristes en Egypte vécus par leur accompagnateur-guide. Ces anecdotes véridiques, pleines de rebondissements,...  Read More >>

Between two fires: Holding the liberal centre in South African politics

Between two fires: Holding the liberal centre in South...

Author: John Kane-Berman
ISBN: 9781868427697
Format: Undefined
$58.22

John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken...  Read More >>

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