African history books

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The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism

The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism...

Author: Marwan Muasher
ISBN: 9780300212631
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Veneration of Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Proceedings of the International Workshop Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Literary Sources and Veneration, Hamburg, April 28-29, 2012

Veneration of Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Proceedings...

Author: Denis Nosnitsin
ISBN: 9783447103992
Format: Paperback
$124.08

"The essays gathered in this volume evolved from papers that were delivered at the Second International Workshop...  Read More >>

Balondo Through the Ages 1100-2013

Balondo Through the Ages 1100-2013

Author: Aja Oro, PhD
ISBN: 9781634981248
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Within the pages of Balondo Through the Ages 1100‒2013, author and Balondo expert Aja Oro properly documents the...  Read More >>

The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya

The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the...

Author: Myles Osborne
ISBN: 9781558765979
Format: Paperback
$71.15

This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious...  Read More >>

External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

Author: Stephen Ellis
ISBN: 9781849045063
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Award-winning book looking at the complicated history of the ANC.  Read More >>

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice?

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity:...

Author: Peter Wagner ,  David Casassas
ISBN: 9781474400404
Format: Hardback
$258.75

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest...  Read More >>

The Akan Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora: A Historical Reader

The Akan Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora: A Historical...

Author: Kwasi Konadu
ISBN: 9781558765863
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This is a collection of key essays about the Akan Peoples, their history and culture. The Akans are an ethnic group...  Read More >>

The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons

The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons...

Author: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo ,  António Costa Pinto
ISBN: 9781137394057
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing...  Read More >>

Africa's Past, Our Future

Africa's Past, Our Future

Author: Kathleen R Smythe
ISBN: 9780253016614
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

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Pursuit: Freedom Revelations

Pursuit: Freedom Revelations

Author: Penemue
ISBN: 9781478740155
Format: Paperback
$28.33

Penemue is a contemporary artist who champions the liberty movement and speaks on social issues unique to the human...  Read More >>

The Kalahari Killings: The True Story of a Wartime Double Murder in Botswana, 1943

The Kalahari Killings: The True Story of a Wartime Double...

Author: Jonathan Laverick
ISBN: 9780750964593
Format: Electronic book text
$50.00

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The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Context

The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngugi wa Thiong’o in...

Author: Oliver Lovesey
ISBN: 9781409409007
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, the author examines the figure of the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Uhuru Revisited: Interviews with African Pro-democracy Leaders

Uhuru Revisited: Interviews with African Pro-democracy...

Author: Ron Singer
ISBN: 9781592219698
Format: Paperback
$99.00

A thorough consideration of all of the many attempts at democracy that have occurred on the African continent since...  Read More >>

My Cattle Look Thin - A Story of Life on a Farm in Zimbabwe

My Cattle Look Thin - A Story of Life on a Farm in Zimbabwe...

Author: David Wilding-Davies
ISBN: 9781927506417
Format: Paperback
$60.59

My Cattle Look Thin is a story about a farm in Africa. David Wilding-Davies travelled with his young family from...  Read More >>

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

Author: Dexter Hoyos (Retired Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780199860104
Format: Hardback
$49.14

A tour de force of military history that recounts a critical turning-point in the history of Rome  Read More >>

Portugal'S Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon'S Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portugese Guinea 1961-74

Portugal'S Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon'S Three Wars...

Author: Al J. Venter
ISBN: 9781910294734
Format: Paperback
$75.00

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guine-Bissau today) lasted almost 13...  Read More >>

After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation...

Author: Katherine S. Newman ,  Ariane De Lannoy
ISBN: 9780807047507
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but...  Read More >>

The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia

The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia...

Author: Dane Kennedy
ISBN: 9780674503861
Format: Paperback
$55.95

The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional...  Read More >>

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African...

Author: Luise White
ISBN: 9780226235196
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire...

Author: Raymond Jonas
ISBN: 9780674503847
Format: Paperback
$71.28

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Social Movements in Egypt and Iran

Social Movements in Egypt and Iran

Author: T. Povey
ISBN: 9781137378996
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book analyses the reform movement in Iran and the Egyptian opposition movement since the early 1990s in their...  Read More >>

Walking by Faith: A Historical Summary of Teasley, Saddler, Bradley, Hargro and Davis Families

Walking by Faith: A Historical Summary of Teasley, Saddler,...

Author: Thara McGuire ,  Valerie J Lewis Coleman
ISBN: 9780996299107
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Know your history, know your worth! From the fertile lands of the Ivory Coast, the ancestors of Thara Davis McGuire...  Read More >>

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African...

Author: Luise White
ISBN: 9780226235059
Format: Hardback
$172.95

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain,...  Read More >>

Africa in the Age of Globalisation: Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities

Africa in the Age of Globalisation: Perceptions, Misperceptions...

Author: Edward Shizha ,  Lamine Diallo
ISBN: 9781472436702
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African...  Read More >>

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