African history books

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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (1819)

Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (1819)

Author: T.E. Bowdich
ISBN: 9780415760829
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Immigrant a Journey of Good Hope

The Immigrant a Journey of Good Hope

Author: Jennie Gungiah
ISBN: 9781460265970
Format: Hardback
$65.97

When South Africa ended its policy of racial segregation and peacefully transitioned to a democracy in 1994, Jennie...  Read More >>

If You Get Yourself Killed, You're Fired!: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Reporter on the Front Lines of Africa

If You Get Yourself Killed, You're Fired!: The Extraordinary...

Author: Wilf Nussey
ISBN: 9781909982543
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This is the story of a most unusual life from beginnings in the South African wilderness to a career reporting on...  Read More >>

A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot and from Letters Written to Friends at Home.

A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal...

Author: Elizabeth Helen Melville
ISBN: 9780415760881
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First published in 1849, this is an account of the public and private lives of the Sierra Leoneans at that time....  Read More >>

Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State

Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of...

Author: Cherry Leonardi
ISBN: 9781847011145
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Essential reading for scholars of Sudan, of Africa and of local governance, as well as policy-makers and practitioners,...  Read More >>

Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times

Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries...

Author: Aron Rodrigue
ISBN: 9780295997797
Format: Hardback
$180.95

Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until the modern period when European colonialism and the...  Read More >>

The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits

The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing...

Author: James C. McCann
ISBN: 9780821421475
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating...  Read More >>

The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule...

Author: Wendy Urban-Mead
ISBN: 9780821421581
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through...  Read More >>

Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975

Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African...

Author: Todd Cleveland
ISBN: 9780821421345
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from the commencement of...  Read More >>

The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule...

Author: Wendy Urban-Mead
ISBN: 9780821421574
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits

The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing...

Author: James C. McCann
ISBN: 9780821421468
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating...  Read More >>

Africa

Africa

Author: Alexis Roumanis
ISBN: 9781489630223
Format: Hardback
$75.37

Introduces readers to the history, sights, and people of Africa.  Read More >>

Re-Viewing Resistance in Namibian History

Re-Viewing Resistance in Namibian History

Author: Jeremy Silvester
ISBN: 9789991642277
Format: Paperback
$77.63

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Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General

Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce,...

Author: Anthony Benezet
ISBN: 9781516858064
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Guinea affords an easy living to its inhabitants, with but little toil. The climate agrees well with the natives,...  Read More >>

Shining the Boot of a Nation

Shining the Boot of a Nation

Author: Susan Balderstone
ISBN: 9780994346421
Format: Paperback
$23.29

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Many Rivers to Cross: Selected Readings on the African American Experience: Vol 1, Preliminary Edition

Many Rivers to Cross: Selected Readings on the African...

Author: Andrew Rosa
ISBN: 9781465280596
Format: Paperback
$288.20

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Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959

Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959...

Author: Jon Cowans (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781421416410
Format: Hardback
$124.00

The first truly transnational history of cinema's role in decolonization, this powerful book weaves a unified historical...  Read More >>

Angola's Colossal Lie: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977

Angola's Colossal Lie: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation,...

Author: Jeremy Ball
ISBN: 9789004301740
Format: Paperback
$192.72

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Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance

Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance...

Author: Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781107696976
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Only months after France's defeat in 1940, a new army was raised in Africa to fight the Nazis. Eric T. Jennings...  Read More >>

Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship

Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship...

Author: Branko van Oppen de Ruiter
ISBN: 9781137494610
Format: Hardback
$237.57

Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III...  Read More >>

Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism

Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement,...

Author: M. el-Nawawy ,  S. Khamis
ISBN: 9781137543561
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the...  Read More >>

The Level Playing Field: How the Aurora Cricket Club Stumped Apartheid

The Level Playing Field: How the Aurora Cricket Club...

Author: Mike Hickson ,  Chris Nicholson
ISBN: 9781515382225
Format: Paperback
$23.73

On the 13th October 1973 a dozen South African Security Branch policemen descended on a cricket match being played...  Read More >>

African Heroes and Heroines

African Heroes and Heroines

Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
ISBN: 9781626541474
Format: Paperback
$38.68

"""The rich and complex political, military, and economic history of the African continent""--"  Read More >>

Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa: Legacies of Liberation

Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa:...

Author: Carolyn Bassett (University of New Brunswick, Canada) ,  Marlea Clarke (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138913448
Format: Hardback
$194.00

National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled...  Read More >>

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