African history books

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Politics in Congo: Decolonization and Independence

Politics in Congo: Decolonization and Independence

Author: Crawford Young
ISBN: 9780691649924
Format: Hardback
$430.00

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The Rulers of Belgian Africa, 1884-1914

The Rulers of Belgian Africa, 1884-1914

Author: Lewis H. Gann
ISBN: 9780691631813
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Zanzibar: Background to Revolution

Zanzibar: Background to Revolution

Author: Michael F. Lofchie
ISBN: 9780691650876
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This book gives a detailed analysis of the causes of the revolution of January 1964 in Zanzibar, and provides a...  Read More >>

Almohad Movement in North Africa in the 12th and 13th Centuries

Almohad Movement in North Africa in the 12th and 13th...

Author: Roger Le Tourneau
ISBN: 9780691648644
Format: Hardback
$135.00

This is an analysis of the powerful Islamic religious movement, initiated by Ibn T?mart among the Berber tribesmen...  Read More >>

Womunafu's Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community

Womunafu's Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century...

Author: David William Cohen
ISBN: 9780691643236
Format: Hardback
$145.00

This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized...  Read More >>

Liptako Speaks: History from Oral Tradition in Africa

Liptako Speaks: History from Oral Tradition in Africa...

Author: Paul Irwin
ISBN: 9780691642697
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate...  Read More >>

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State...

Author: Robert L. Tignor
ISBN: 9780691634944
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert...  Read More >>

Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period

Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and...

Author: James E. Hoch
ISBN: 9780691632025
Format: Hardback
$380.00

Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian...  Read More >>

The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages

The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages...

Author: Carl F. Petry
ISBN: 9780691642178
Format: Hardback
$310.00

This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about...  Read More >>

The Financial and Administrative Organization and Development of Ottoman Egypt: 1517-1798

The Financial and Administrative Organization and Development...

Author: Stanford Jay Shaw
ISBN: 9780691651903
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted...  Read More >>

The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy of Two Regimes

The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy...

Author: John Waterbury
ISBN: 9780691641287
Format: Hardback
$320.00

A balance sheet of thirty years of revolutionary experiment, this work is a comprehensive analysis of the failure...  Read More >>

Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941

Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization,...

Author: Eric Davis
ISBN: 9780691641362
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by...  Read More >>

The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay

The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay

Author: Abdallah Laroui ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691635859
Format: Hardback
$280.00

This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published...  Read More >>

Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco

Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco

Author: Janet L. Abu-Lughod
ISBN: 9780691642932
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Making provocative use of the term apartheid,"" Janet Abu-Lughod argues that French colonial policies in Moroccan...  Read More >>

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914...

Author: Robert L. Tignor
ISBN: 9780691650289
Format: Hardback
$260.00

In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since...  Read More >>

The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855

The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855

Author: L. Carl Brown
ISBN: 9780691645193
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Under the energetic but confused prodding of the activist ruler Ahmad Bey, Tunisia made its first effort to institute...  Read More >>

Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation...

Author: Jules Gerard-Libois ,  Benoit Verhaegen
ISBN: 9780691649825
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information...  Read More >>

Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation...

Author: Jules Gerard-Libois ,  Benoit Verhaegen
ISBN: 9780691650791
Format: Hardback
$390.00

This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom

The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the...

Author: Nadine Moeller (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781107079755
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It...  Read More >>

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras VIII: Proceedings of the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd International Colloquium Organized at Ghent University in May 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras...

Author: U. Vermeulen ,  U. Vermeulen
ISBN: 9789042932319
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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Fordsburg fighter: Journey of an MK volunteer

Fordsburg fighter: Journey of an MK volunteer

Author: Amin Cajee
ISBN: 9780994674425
Format: Paperback
$46.58

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The congress of the people and freedom charter: A people’s history

The congress of the people and freedom charter: A people’s...

Author: Ismail Vadi
ISBN: 9781928232124
Format: Paperback
$36.20

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Identity Problems of Black Africans: Myth or Reality

Identity Problems of Black Africans: Myth or Reality...

Author: Talanga P Nefwani Ma Med
ISBN: 9781478769156
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Since the 15th century, history has revealed a systematic dismantling of African history and culture, with changes...  Read More >>

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