African history books

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Better Together: Crossing the divide in South Africa

Better Together: Crossing the divide in South Africa...

Author: Roger Pearce
ISBN: 9780620723541
Format: Paperback
$39.57

For centuries the story of South Africa could not be told without reference to race, along with its two cousins...  Read More >>

Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters: And on the Eastern Coast of Africa. Narrative of Five Years' Experience in

Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters: And on the Eastern...

Author: Captain G.L. Sullivan
ISBN: 9781138990708
Format: Paperback
$96.99

A useful guide to the state of the slave trade in 1850 and how the trade increased from then until 1873 when up...  Read More >>

Alamein: Great Battles

Alamein: Great Battles

Author: Simon Ball (Professor of International History and Politics, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780199682034
Format: Hardback
$51.95

The story of Alamein - one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, but also one of the most hotly debated...  Read More >>

The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800

The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of...

Author: Bill Freund (University of Natal, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781137429063
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a refreshing account of the complex events in sub-Saharan...  Read More >>

Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth

Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth

Author: Charlotte Booth
ISBN: 9781781555460
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Hypatia was a female philosopher and mathematician during the early Christian era in Alexandria. She was brutally...  Read More >>

Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria,...

Author: Natalya Vince ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9781526106575
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most...  Read More >>

Iyare! Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theatre

Iyare! Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theatre...

Author: Kathy Curnow
ISBN: 9780692595046
Format: Paperback
$130.68

Catalogue of an exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology held in its William...  Read More >>

The Disturbances: The Untold Story of How Missionaries Saved Lives in a Time of Tribal Genocide

The Disturbances: The Untold Story of How Missionaries...

Author: Robert Parham
ISBN: 9780997892406
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"An untold story is finally being revealed after 50 years.Christian missionaries and Nigerian pastors intervened...  Read More >>

Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda

Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda...

Author: Michael Barnett
ISBN: 9781501746482
Format: Hardback
$150.35

Michael Barnett argues that the indifference of the UN to events in Rwanda was driven not by incompetence or cynicism...  Read More >>

The Helderberg Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction?

The Helderberg Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction?

Author: Steven Webb
ISBN: 9798332591839
Format: Paperback
$50.50

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Translating the Testament of God: A plea for the promotion of Bible translation and language development in Africa

Translating the Testament of God: A plea for the promotion...

Author: Napo Poidi
ISBN: 9781908860170
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War

West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War

Author: Mathilde Von Bulow (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781107088597
Format: Hardback
$186.30

Examining the clandestine and subversive activities of Algerian nationalists in West Germany and Europe, Mathilde...  Read More >>

Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War

Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda...

Author: Ron Nixon
ISBN: 9780745399140
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Tells the story of South Africa's shocking propaganda campaign which sold apartheid across the world  Read More >>

L'Égypte en 1858

L'Égypte en 1858

Author: Louis Delâtre
ISBN: 9781537748849
Format: Paperback
$24.29

"" Depuis quelques années, les pays musulmans préoccupent singulièrement le monde civilisé. La Turquie, l'Inde,...  Read More >>

Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White Insane

Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White...

Author: Will Jackson ,  John Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781526106551
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the...  Read More >>

Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling...

Author: Terence E. McDonnell
ISBN: 9780226382159
Format: Paperback
$62.95

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive,...  Read More >>

Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development

Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and...

Author: Adam J. Goldwyn ,  Renée M. Silverman
ISBN: 9781137589279
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions....  Read More >>

Decolonization in Africa

Decolonization in Africa

Author: John D. Hargreaves
ISBN: 9781138153578
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An examination of the post-war independence processes in more than forty colonies in Africa.  Read More >>

Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling...

Author: Terence E. McDonnell
ISBN: 9780226382012
Format: Hardback
$187.95

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive,...  Read More >>

Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship

Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist...

Author: Ezekiel Gebissa
ISBN: 9781569022801
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A team of historians and sociologists confront the scholarship of power' that dismisses politically engaged scholarship...  Read More >>

Birth Tusks: The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt 1800 BC: The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt 1800 BC

Birth Tusks: The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt...

Author: Stephen Quirke
ISBN: 9781906137496
Format: Hardback
$396.00

One highly distinctive ancient Egyptian product is the hippopotamus tusk section, incised with series of divine...  Read More >>

Return of the Medes: Based on the Ancient Astrology Prediction

Return of the Medes: Based on the Ancient Astrology...

Author: Hamma Mirwaisi
ISBN: 9781537687841
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Return of the Medes Why I Wrote This Book? The lands from India to Europe and from Egypt to Mongolia are setting...  Read More >>

Eskom: Electricity and technopolitics in South Africa

Eskom: Electricity and technopolitics in South Africa...

Author: Alain Dubresson ,  Sylvy Jaglin
ISBN: 9781775822158
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Evolution’s Chimera: Bats and the marvel of evolutionary adaptation

Evolution’s Chimera: Bats and the marvel of evolutionary...

Author: David Jacobs
ISBN: 9781775822127
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon

The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon

Author: John Brant ,  John Brant
ISBN: 9780553392159
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality...  Read More >>

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