African history books

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I Wonder: The Village Years

I Wonder: The Village Years

Author: Debrah Mowlem
ISBN: 9781503013919
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Having lived in the village (Read..I Wonder, The Village Years) all her life, this book sees the transition from...  Read More >>

Conflict in the Colonies: East Africa and the First World War

Conflict in the Colonies: East Africa and the First...

Author: Gordon Shepherd
ISBN: 9781840336788
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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Building Colonialism: Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa

Building Colonialism: Archaeology and Urban Space in...

Author: Daniel T. Rhodes (Area Archaeologist at the National Trust for Scotland, UK)
ISBN: 9781472512598
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques...  Read More >>

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves...

Author: Manuel Barcia (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780198719038
Format: Hardback
$323.95

Presents an account of West African slavery in Cuba and Bahia from 1790, arguing that the large numbers of slaves...  Read More >>

Initiation Into Candomble: Introduction to African-Brazilian Religion

Initiation Into Candomble: Introduction to African-Brazilian...

Author: Zeca Ligiero
ISBN: 9781937306298
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Candomblé is an African-Brazilian religion that has over two million adherents throughout Brazil, but also in the...  Read More >>

A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature

A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature

Author: Keith Moser ,  Geraldine Enjelvin
ISBN: 9780739190098
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Railways Along the Nile and the Renaissance of Modern Egypt (1798-1879)

Railways Along the Nile and the Renaissance of Modern...

Author: Osama Ettouney
ISBN: 9781500901820
Format: Paperback
$52.80

On July 1, 1798, when Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Alexandria, Egypt was in a state of suspended stagnation. But...  Read More >>

Lucan's Egyptian Civil War

Lucan's Egyptian Civil War

Author: Jonathan Tracy (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781107072077
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Nigeria Civil War: The Country Biafra

Nigeria Civil War: The Country Biafra

Author: Ignatius Chukwuka Onyejekwe
ISBN: 9781634480444
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This is only a snap shot of the events in Nigeria during the civil war. I felt duty bound to share my experience...  Read More >>

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in...

Author: Patrick Bond ,  Ana Garcia
ISBN: 9780745334783
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Fully updated edition of best-selling work of political analysis. Released to coincide with 20th anniversary of...  Read More >>

Good Morning, MR Mandela: A Memoir

Good Morning, MR Mandela: A Memoir

Author: Zelda La Grange
ISBN: 9781467687393
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$197.97

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Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula

Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of...

Author: S. Pooley
ISBN: 9781137415431
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the...  Read More >>

Lord Lugard's Nigeria: A Century of Myopia and Acerebral Waste - A Perspective of a Post-Independence Nigerian (1914-2014)

Lord Lugard's Nigeria: A Century of Myopia and Acerebral...

Author: Yinka Kolawole
ISBN: 9781631352010
Format: Hardback
$58.68

"Nigerians are the most enduring and the most important natural resource of their country. Affordable electricity,...  Read More >>

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water...

Author: Jessica Barnes
ISBN: 9780822357568
Format: Paperback
$71.15

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores...  Read More >>

The Muslim Brothers in Pursuit of Legitimacy: Power and Political Islam in Egypt Under Mubarak

The Muslim Brothers in Pursuit of Legitimacy: Power...

Author: Hesham Al-Awadi
ISBN: 9781780764306
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Argues that the growing impact of the Muslim Brotherhood on Egyptian politics and society is part of the movement's...  Read More >>

Careysburg: Freed Negro American Settlers' Quest for Freedom and the Impact on the Social and Cultural Relationship with Indigenou

Careysburg: Freed Negro American Settlers' Quest for...

Author: Benjamin G Freeman, IV
ISBN: 9781478734413
Format: Paperback
$30.92

Careysburg recounts the story of the freed blacks from America, who settled in the West African St. Paul River settlement...  Read More >>

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water...

Author: Jessica Barnes
ISBN: 9780822357414
Format: Hardback
$271.79

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores...  Read More >>

Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal

Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South...

Author: Lindsay F. Braun
ISBN: 9789004272330
Format: Paperback
$256.08

In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the...  Read More >>

The Last Boer War

The Last Boer War

Author: Sir H Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781502856142
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Reprinted from the 1900 revised and expanded edition of a work originally published in 1882. Haggard is best known...  Read More >>

Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond

Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry,...

Author: Andrew Balaam
ISBN: 9781909982772
Format: Paperback
$49.99

From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from...  Read More >>

The Greatest Safari: In the Beginning Was Africa: the Story of Evolution Seen from the Savannah

The Greatest Safari: In the Beginning Was Africa: the...

Author: Mr Søren Rasmussen
ISBN: 9781928211518
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Why does the zebra have stripes and the elephant a long trunk? How did the giraffe acquire a long neck and why does...  Read More >>

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

Author: Sir H Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781502842336
Format: Paperback
$29.04

A sequel soon followed entitled Allan Quatermain, followed by She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure...  Read More >>

Hermann Giliomee: Historian - An autobiography

Hermann Giliomee: Historian - An autobiography

Author: Hermann Giliomee
ISBN: 9780624066804
Format: Paperback
$59.38

Internationally renowned historian Hermann Giliomee recounts the turbulent times he has lived through. Packed with...  Read More >>

The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples

The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence relating...

Author: Colin de B. Webb ,  John Wright
ISBN: 9781869142643
Format: Hardback
$71.50

James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

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