African history books

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The Encyclopaedia of Egypt During the Reign of the Mehemet Ali Dynasty 1798-1952 - The People, Places and Events That Shaped Nineteenth Century Egypt

The Encyclopaedia of Egypt During the Reign of the Mehemet...

Author: Patrick Richard Carstens
ISBN: 9781460248973
Format: Hardback
$195.33

Patrick Richard Carstens' interest in researching, compiling and writing The Encyclopaedia of Egypt during the Reign...  Read More >>

Language and Identity in Modern Egypt

Language and Identity in Modern Egypt

Author: Reem Bassiouney
ISBN: 9780748697083
Format: Undefined
$316.80

How is language used in Egyptian public discourse to express the collective identity of Egyptians? How does this...  Read More >>

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern...

Author: Edward William Lane ,  Jason Thompson (Bates College)
ISBN: 9781617975516
Format: Undefined
$79.07

"Few works about the Middle East have exerted such influence as Edward William Lane's ""An Account of the Manners...  Read More >>

Amistad: A Hidden Network of Slavers and Merchants

Amistad: A Hidden Network of Slavers and Merchants

Author: Michael Zeuske ,  Steven Rendell
ISBN: 9781558765931
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Originally published as: Geschichte der Amistad. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012.  Read More >>

Bushmen Soldiers: The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90

Bushmen Soldiers: The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions...

Author: Ian Uys ,  Delville Linford
ISBN: 9781909384583
Format: Paperback
$87.99

The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous...  Read More >>

The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean...

Author: Marilyn Booth ,  Anthony Gorman
ISBN: 9780748670123
Format: Hardback
$232.88

13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence and,...  Read More >>

Nihazasigare N'uwo Kubara Inkuru/ Leave None To Tell The Story: Genocide in Rwanda

Nihazasigare N'uwo Kubara Inkuru/ Leave None To Tell...

Author: Human Rights Watch ,  Alison des Forges
ISBN: 9781569024027
Format: Paperback
$80.19

The genocide in Rwanda of 1994 was one of the most horrific episodes of late twentieth century history. As such,...  Read More >>

The man with many names von Pekka Masonen. Die Person des Leo Africanus: Ein Vergleich mit den Werken von Natalie Zemon Davis und Dietrich Rauchenberger

The man with many names von Pekka Masonen. Die Person...

Author: Simon Schmitz
ISBN: 9783656731474
Format: Paperback
$45.28

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, Note: 2,3, Universitat Duisburg-Essen (Geschichte),...  Read More >>

Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live...

Author: Idowu Koyenikan
ISBN: 9780990639701
Format: Paperback
$31.46

Wealth for All Africans is a powerful call to action that takes you on a journey through self-discovery, self-improvement,...  Read More >>

Understanding Statebuilding: Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland

Understanding Statebuilding: Traditional Governance...

Author: Rebecca Richards
ISBN: 9781472425898
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone...  Read More >>

From Superman to Man

From Superman to Man

Author: J a Rogers
ISBN: 9781614276760
Format: Paperback
$23.63

An Unabridged Printing of the Second Edition, to include the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Day, with opening...  Read More >>

Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid

Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over...

Author: M. Feld
ISBN: 9781137029713
Format: Paperback
$145.17

A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa.  Read More >>

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela...

Author: Nelson Mandela ,  Richard Stengel
ISBN: 9781478987086
Format: Audio
$369.57

"""Now a major motion picture""--Container."  Read More >>

Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid

Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over...

Author: M. Feld
ISBN: 9781137029706
Format: Hardback
$145.17

A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa.  Read More >>

Egypt: The Holy Land: The Quintessential Book

Egypt: The Holy Land: The Quintessential Book

Author: Frederick Michael Monderson
ISBN: 9781610230452
Format: Paperback
$131.87

"EGYPT - The ""Holy Land' Updated and expanded, Egypt: The Holy Land is a ""novel of sorts"" about some 48 African-Americans...  Read More >>

Once Upon a White Man: A Memoir of War & Peace in Africa

Once Upon a White Man: A Memoir of War & Peace in Africa...

Author: Graham Atkins
ISBN: 9781500906863
Format: Paperback
$26.35

"From a colonial childhood, to the front-line of Rhodesia's vicious civil war, to the final disintegration of Mugabe's...  Read More >>

Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France...

Author: Frederick Cooper
ISBN: 9780691161310
Format: Hardback
$84.99

"Examines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in a time of acute...  Read More >>

Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures

Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures...

Author: William Carruthers (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9780415843690
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others....  Read More >>

State of the nation: South Africa 1994-2014: A twenty-year review of freedom and democracy

State of the nation: South Africa 1994-2014: A twenty-year...

Author: Thenjiwe Meyiwa ,  Muxe Nkondo
ISBN: 9780796924612
Format: Paperback
$59.38

2014 is a year of celebration on 20 years of freedom and democracy in South Africa. Simultaneously it is a time...  Read More >>

Party Coalitions in Nigeria. History, Trends and Prospects

Party Coalitions in Nigeria. History, Trends and Prospects...

Author: Anthony A Akinola
ISBN: 9789788431619
Format: Paperback
$62.10

This book is a comprehensive appraisal of the political history of Nigeria since colonisation, with emphasis on...  Read More >>

African Cultures, Memory and Space. Living the Past Presence in Zimbabwean Heritage

African Cultures, Memory and Space. Living the Past...

Author: Munyaradzi Mawere ,  Tapuwa R Mubaya
ISBN: 9789956792979
Format: Paperback
$75.04

African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage...  Read More >>

Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth...

Author: Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Professor)
ISBN: 9780511803376
Format: Undefined
$594.00

A fascinating study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Her story reveals the world she...  Read More >>

Kilimanjaro and Its People: A History of Wachagga, their Laws, Customs and Legends, Together with Some

Kilimanjaro and Its People: A History of Wachagga, their...

Author: Charles Dundas
ISBN: 9781138010895
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First published in 1924, this account was written by a Senior Commissioner of the Tanganyika Territory.  Read More >>

Truth About the West African Land Question

Truth About the West African Land Question

Author: J.E. Casely Hayford
ISBN: 9780415760782
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Hayford, an African Nationalist, argues that the preservation of the indigenous land tenure system was vital if...  Read More >>

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