African history books

25238 books were found.

Man of Good Hope

Man of Good Hope

Author: Jonny Steinberg
ISBN: 9781322574042
Format: Electronic book text
$213.44

In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city s population fled....  Read More >>

South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

Author: Edward Thomas
ISBN: 9781322576152
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

A remarkably comprehensive examination of the politics, history and economic development of contemporary South Sudan....  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: 9781322886060
Format: Electronic book text
$248.03

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

Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Author: Vincent Bakpetu Thompson
ISBN: 9781322889290
Format: Electronic book text
$124.05

Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and...  Read More >>

Democratic Renewal in Africa

Democratic Renewal in Africa

Author: Said Adejumobi
ISBN: 9781322967257
Format: Electronic book text
$274.53

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Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History

Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A...

Author: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch ,  Mary Baker
ISBN: 9781322982564
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism,...  Read More >>

Voices of the Arab Spring

Voices of the Arab Spring

Author: Asaad Al-Saleh
ISBN: 9781322954998
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals involved in the Arab Spring, this book documents the unprecedented...  Read More >>

Understanding Namibia: The Trials of Independence

Understanding Namibia: The Trials of Independence

Author: Henning Melber
ISBN: 9781322608785
Format: Electronic book text
$52.77

The book offers a frank account of an African state that shook off colonial rule but has yet to see the fruits of...  Read More >>

Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World

Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World

Author: Silke Strickrodt
ISBN: 9781322988849
Format: Electronic book text
$211.20

A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over...  Read More >>

HIV Exceptionalism

HIV Exceptionalism

Author: Adia Benton
ISBN: 9781322999845
Format: Electronic book text
$208.56

Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and...  Read More >>

John Brown

John Brown

Author: W E B Du Bois, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781336138261
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic....  Read More >>

Unpopular Sovereignty

Unpopular Sovereignty

Author: Luise White
ISBN: 9781336190122
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence...  Read More >>

Histories of the Jews of Egypt

Histories of the Jews of Egypt

Author: Dario Miccoli (Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia,Italy)
ISBN: 9781336196223
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

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Atlantic Slave Trade in World History

Atlantic Slave Trade in World History

Author: Jeremy Black (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781336196407
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

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Para-States and Medical Science

Para-States and Medical Science

Author: Paul Wenzel Geissler ,  Paul Wenzel Geissler
ISBN: 9781322879925
Format: Electronic book text
$263.87

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health...  Read More >>

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Author: Derek Peterson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) ,  Kodzo Gavua (University of Ghana)
ISBN: 9781336051560
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide...  Read More >>

Looting Machine

Looting Machine

Author: Tom Burgis
ISBN: 9781336201583
Format: Electronic book text
$73.89

The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil,...  Read More >>

Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania

Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania...

Author: Emma Hunter (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781316316801
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

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Gendering Ethnicity in African Women S Lives

Gendering Ethnicity in African Women S Lives

Author: Jan Bender Shetler ,  Jan Bender Shetler
ISBN: 9781336219632
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams....  Read More >>

Lion Songs

Lion Songs

Author: Banning Eyre
ISBN: 9780822375425
Format: Electronic book text
$92.27

In Lion Songs Banning Eyre tells the story of Zimbabwean singer, composer and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo who, like...  Read More >>

Bamako Sounds

Bamako Sounds

Author: Ryan Thomas Skinner
ISBN: 9781452944401
Format: Electronic book text
$231.00

Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of...  Read More >>

Biko's Ghost

Biko's Ghost

Author: Shannen L Hill
ISBN: 9781452944302
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

When you say, Black is Beautiful, what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look...  Read More >>

Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts, and Identities

Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Reshaping...

Author: Barbara Casciarri ,  Munzoul A M Assal
ISBN: 9781782386186
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

Based on fieldwork largely collected during the CPA interim period by Sudanese and European researchers, this volume...  Read More >>

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