African history books

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A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Routledge Revivals)

A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Routledge...

Author: Edwyn Bevan
ISBN: 9781138775572
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel

Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel

Author: Andrew Humphreys
ISBN: 9789774167195
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This book tells the stories of Egypt’s historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard’s, the Mena House, Gezira...  Read More >>

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century...

Author: Robert H. Bates
ISBN: 9781107569805
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa

The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment...

Author: Toyin Falola ,  Jessica Achberger
ISBN: 9781138952621
Format: Paperback
$92.99

While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case....  Read More >>

A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa (Classic Reprint)

A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa...

Author: Archibald Alexander
ISBN: 9781330270035
Format: Paperback
$51.66

Excerpt from A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa The best method of disposing of the free people...  Read More >>

The Sudan: A Short Compendium of Facts and Figures about the Land of Darkness (Classic Reprint)

The Sudan: A Short Compendium of Facts and Figures about...

Author: H Karl W Kumm
ISBN: 9781330381182
Format: Paperback
$35.82

Excerpt from The Sudan: A Short Compendium of Facts and Figures About the Land of Darkness This book was conceived...  Read More >>

The Destruction of Lagos (Classic Reprint)

The Destruction of Lagos (Classic Reprint)

Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781330890653
Format: Paperback
$21.04

Excerpt from The Destruction of Lagos Lord Palmerston's announcement at the opening of Parliament, that the Slave-trade...  Read More >>

A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Twentieth Century (Classic Reprint)

A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, Vol. 1 of 2:...

Author: William Walton Claridge
ISBN: 9781331342038
Format: Paperback
$54.30

Excerpt from A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Commencement of...  Read More >>

British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo (Classic Reprint)

British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan,...

Author: W H Treacher
ISBN: 9781331299011
Format: Paperback
$27.90

Excerpt from British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo Not only this, but the example...  Read More >>

The History of the South African Forces in France (Classic Reprint)

The History of the South African Forces in France (Classic...

Author: John Buchan (The Surgery, Powys)
ISBN: 9781330338117
Format: Paperback
$43.74

Excerpt from The History of the South African Forces in France In the autumn of 1916 I was asked by the Union Government...  Read More >>

Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Health: Of the Health Department of the City of New York, May 1, 1873, to April 30, 1874 (Classic Reprint)

Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Health: Of the...

Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781332250172
Format: Paperback
$52.72

Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Health: Of the Health Department of the City of New York, May...  Read More >>

State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa

State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa

Author: Arrigo Pallotti ,  Corrado Tornimbeni
ISBN: 9781472452405
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this volume leading European, American and African scholars explore in detail the relationship between state,...  Read More >>

The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy: Widespread Expectations of Widespread Corruption

The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy: Widespread Expectations...

Author: Dominic Burbidge
ISBN: 9781472467683
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic...  Read More >>

The Engineer in South Africa: A Review of the Industrial Situation in South Africa After the War and a Forecast of the Possibilities of the Country

The Engineer in South Africa: A Review of the Industrial...

Author: Stafford Ransome
ISBN: 9781343516342
Format: Hardback
$72.32

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

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten...

Author: Brian Kilmeade ,  Don Yaeger
ISBN: 9781101926727
Format: Audio
$79.20

Now with a new afterword: How the captivity of American sailors planted the seeds of America's antislavery movements....  Read More >>

Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa: Identity, Integration, Development

Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa: Identity,...

Author: Finex Ndhlovu
ISBN: 9781443877077
Format: Hardback
$216.35

Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa argues that language policy – whether formal or informal, micro...  Read More >>

Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change

Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical...

Author: Barbra Mann Wall
ISBN: 9780813566221
Format: Hardback
$187.31

The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth century has occurred in Africa, where Catholic missions...  Read More >>

Brief Book on a Song of Africa

Brief Book on a Song of Africa

Author: Vinson Ballard
ISBN: 9781518716843
Format: Paperback
$83.24

"This publication has been brought about to illustrate expressions of more in depth cultural reflections of the...  Read More >>

Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Religious Symbolism of the Scarabaeus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria. Also Remarks on the Learning, Philosophy, Arts, Ethics of the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Etc

Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Religious Symbolism...

Author: Isaac Myer
ISBN: 9781343380158
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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

The War in South Africa: Its Cause & Conduct

The War in South Africa: Its Cause & Conduct

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
ISBN: 9781343451995
Format: Hardback
$63.23

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

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its...

Author: Ibigbolade Aderibigbe ,  Alloy Ihuah
ISBN: 9781443878401
Format: Hardback
$216.35

This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa’s...  Read More >>

British Policy in South Africa

British Policy in South Africa

Author: Spenser Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781343266063
Format: Hardback
$60.59

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

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