African history books

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Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

Author: Iris Berger (State University of New York, Albany)
ISBN: 9780521517072
Format: Hardback
$269.10

During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual...  Read More >>

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

Author: Sandy Prita Meier ,  Prita Meier
ISBN: 9780253019158
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others...  Read More >>

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and...

Author: Giacomo Macola
ISBN: 9780821422120
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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The Belgian Congo and the Berlin ACT

The Belgian Congo and the Berlin ACT

Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
ISBN: 9781354500552
Format: Hardback
$71.15

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Under Devil's Peak: The life and times of Wilfrid Cooper, an advocate in the age of apartheid

Under Devil's Peak: The life and times of Wilfrid Cooper,...

Author: Gavin Cooper
ISBN: 9781928230366
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Wilfrid Cooper was a rare man during the dark days of apartheid: An advocate whose career coincided almost perfectly...  Read More >>

The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical

The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified...

Author: Peter Hogg ,  Peter Hogg
ISBN: 9781138966284
Format: Paperback
$92.99

A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified...  Read More >>

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and...

Author: Giacomo Macola
ISBN: 9780821422113
Format: Hardback
$170.78

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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

Author: Sandy Prita Meier ,  Prita Meier
ISBN: 9780253019097
Format: Hardback
$151.95

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A Colony of Heaven: Bishop Hannington and Freretown - Early Christian Mission in East Africa

A Colony of Heaven: Bishop Hannington and Freretown...

Author: Dr Warren S Smith ,  REV Kennedy Ofundi
ISBN: 9781478774013
Format: Paperback
$147.71

By 1875, the institution of slavery in East Africa was winding down, after a series of treaties with the Sultan...  Read More >>

With Both Armies in South Africa

With Both Armies in South Africa

Author: Richard Harding Davis
ISBN: 9781354372555
Format: Hardback
$71.15

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The keeper of the Kumm

The keeper of the Kumm

Author: Sylvia Vollenhoven
ISBN: 9780624063087
Format: Paperback
$36.10

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U.S.–Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama

U.S.–Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama

Author: Cassandra Rachel Veney ,  Rita Kiki Edozie
ISBN: 9780739195819
Format: Paperback
$113.00

U.S.-Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama examines political, economic, and cultural relations between the United...  Read More >>

Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo

Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development...

Author: Zoë Marriage
ISBN: 9781138672307
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Global security is defined by the interests of powerful northern countries and systematically exacerbates insecurity...  Read More >>

Algeria Modern: From Opacity to Complexity

Algeria Modern: From Opacity to Complexity

Author: Luis Martinez ,  Rasmus Boserup
ISBN: 9781849045872
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Algeria is noteworthy for its geopolitical position and the fact it has avoided destabilisation from grassroots...  Read More >>

South Africa - The Present as History: From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana

South Africa - The Present as History: From Mrs Ples...

Author: John S. Saul (Customer) ,  Patrick Bond
ISBN: 9781847011350
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Analyses on-going movements against inequality and injustice in South Africa to show how these are rooted in its...  Read More >>

Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya

Political Rationale and International Consequences of...

Author: Dag Henriksen (Professor of Modern History/Military Studies, and Head of the Airpower Department, The Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy) ,  Ann Karin Larssen (Assistant Professor, The Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy)
ISBN: 9780198767480
Format: Hardback
$112.95

This volume examines the political rationale for the various actors in the lead-up and conduct of the military intervention...  Read More >>

Les peuples de l'Afrique sont comme un mendiant assis sur une montagne d'or: En realite, certains Africains sont de bons paresseux, negligents et fossoyeurs !

Les peuples de l'Afrique sont comme un mendiant assis...

Author: Jean-Pierre Honla
ISBN: 9781533353566
Format: Paperback
$76.12

Demandez-vous qu'est ce que vous faites pour votre communaute? Qu'est ce que vous faites pour faire avancer les...  Read More >>

Three Women, Two Days, and a Night

Three Women, Two Days, and a Night

Author: Jude Lawson
ISBN: 9780997550511
Format: Paperback
$30.33

The Bermuda Triangle has always been a mysterious and alluring place in the Atlantic Ocean. Could the same mystery...  Read More >>

Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya: The Untold Story of Senior Chief Waruhiu Wa Kung'u, 1890–1952

Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya: The Untold Story...

Author: Evanson N. Wamagatta
ISBN: 9781498521475
Format: Hardback
$222.00

This book documents the life of Senior Chief Waruhiu, one of colonial Kenya’s most controversial chiefs, from his...  Read More >>

The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976

The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16...

Author: Julian Brown
ISBN: 9781847011411
Format: Hardback
$116.44

A new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform...  Read More >>

English in Modern Times

English in Modern Times

Author: Joan C Beal
ISBN: 9781138144064
Format: Hardback
$284.00

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that...  Read More >>

Fire from Timbuktu: A Dialogue with History

Fire from Timbuktu: A Dialogue with History

Author: Karamoh Kabba
ISBN: 9789991054353
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Fire From Timbuktu: A Dialogue With History is a short account of Africa-pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial,...  Read More >>

One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast

One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast

Author: Aristide R. Zolberg
ISBN: 9780691648750
Format: Hardback
$280.00

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Christian Missionaries and the Creation of Northern Rhodesia 1880-1924

Christian Missionaries and the Creation of Northern...

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
ISBN: 9780691651071
Format: Hardback
$165.00

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