African history books

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A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition

A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition

Author: Leonard Thompson ,  Lynn Berat
ISBN: 9780300189353
Format: Paperback
$34.95

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present....  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Aid and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Budget Support in Tanzania

The Political Economy of Aid and Accountability: The...

Author: Helen Tilley
ISBN: 9781409464426
Format: Hardback
$79.99

The provision of aid is increasingly under scrutiny with increasing demands for results. This raises the question:...  Read More >>

Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism

Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism...

Author: E a Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9781499680775
Format: Paperback
$15.81

E.A. Wallis Budge was an English philologist and writer who worked for the British museum. Budge wrote a lot on...  Read More >>

Churchill and the Montgomery Myth

Churchill and the Montgomery Myth

Author: R. W. Thompson
ISBN: 9781590773963
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This is perhaps the most revealing case history of the politics of modern warfare ever set down. It is a story of...  Read More >>

Liberalism in Twentieth Century Egyptian Thought: The Ideologies of Ahmad Amin and Husayn Amin

Liberalism in Twentieth Century Egyptian Thought: The...

Author: Makoto Mizutani
ISBN: 9781780767277
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The role of Islam in the modern state and the interpretation and implementation of Shari'a law are widely debated....  Read More >>

Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798

Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798

Author: Michael Winter
ISBN: 9780415755122
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Comprehensive social history, drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, of the years from the overthrow...  Read More >>

Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial...

Author: Andrew Arsan
ISBN: 9781849042970
Format: Hardback
$79.95

First comprehensive history of Lebanese communities of Francophone West Africa in the colonial period.  Read More >>

The Battle of Paardeberg: Lord Roberts' Gambit

The Battle of Paardeberg: Lord Roberts' Gambit

Author: Martin Marais
ISBN: 9780957401143
Format: Hardback
$126.69

The Boer War (1899-1902) was fought between the tiny South African Boer republics and the might of the British Empire....  Read More >>

The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration

The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual...

Author: Xolela Mangcu
ISBN: 9780796921642
Format: Paperback
$34.19

A collection of lectures that brings together the renowned African and African-American scholars to reflect on the...  Read More >>

The Fannin Papers

The Fannin Papers

Author: Judy Aldrick
ISBN: 9789966720429
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Katharine Fannin is chiefly remembered for her two journeys in 1938 and 1939 across Italian East Africa. Armed with...  Read More >>

Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary

Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the...

Author: James G. Keenan (Loyola University, Chicago) ,  J. G. Manning (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9780521874526
Format: Hardback
$364.84

This book introduces the reader to the field of legal papyrology through numerous translated documents accompanied...  Read More >>

Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity

Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir: Tracking Emerging...

Author: Amanda Fields ,  Emily Golson
ISBN: 9781443856461
Format: Hardback
$103.47

How do we understand current events in Egypt? Prior to January 25, 2011, when asked about unusual images, sights,...  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: 9780807007464
Format: Hardback
$85.00

"Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multi-racial democracy in South Africa...  Read More >>

A History of Czechoslovak Involvement in Africa: Studies from the Colonial Through the Soviet Eras

A History of Czechoslovak Involvement in Africa: Studies...

Author: Jan Zahorik ,  Linda Piknerova
ISBN: 9780773400870
Format: Hardback
$284.50

A scholarly exploration into the Czech-African relationship. It brings together several aspects of Czechoslovak-African...  Read More >>

The Carthaginians 6th–2nd Century BC

The Carthaginians 6th–2nd Century BC

Author: Andrea Salimbeti ,  Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781782007760
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Carthage, the port-city in Tunisia first settled by Phoenicians from Tyre, grew to extend a competitive maritime...  Read More >>

A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation

A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation...

Author: John S. Saul
ISBN: 9780745334790
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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Slave Narratives: Listening To the Voices of the Ancestors: Slavery's Disintegration of the Black Family Structure

Slave Narratives: Listening To the Voices of the Ancestors:...

Author: Janice R Swinton
ISBN: 9781482338041
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Slavery was more than a state of physical bondage and chains, it was a state of mind, because slavery not only made...  Read More >>

The Legacy of Egypt, 3rd Edition: The bloodstock of the EAO, 1983-84

The Legacy of Egypt, 3rd Edition: The bloodstock of...

Author: Emily Webster Love ,  James F Brownfield
ISBN: 9781499603156
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Photos taken in their natural state of the stallions and mares at the Egyptian Agricultural Organization's El-Zahraa...  Read More >>

Africa, Fourth Edition

Africa, Fourth Edition

Author: Maria Grosz-Ngaté ,  John H. Hanson
ISBN: 9780253012920
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. This book emphasizes contemporary culture-civil and...  Read More >>

Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300

Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the...

Author: David W. Phillipson
ISBN: 9781847010889
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia.  Read More >>

Monrovia - A City on Fire

Monrovia - A City on Fire

Author: Alain Kassa
ISBN: 9789187751066
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The summer of 2013 was particularly deadly in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city, already disfigured by fourteen years...  Read More >>

A History of Zimbabwe

A History of Zimbabwe

Author: Alois S. Mlambo (University of Pretoria)
ISBN: 9781139128919
Format: Undefined
$594.00

There is currently no single-volume history of Zimbabwe that provides detailed coverage of the country's experience...  Read More >>

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