African history books

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Slavery and Slaving in African History

Slavery and Slaving in African History

Author: Sean Stilwell (University of Vermont)
ISBN: 9781139034999
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from earliest times to the end of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

Libya: History and Revolution

Libya: History and Revolution

Author: Richard A. Lobban Jr. ,  Carlton W. Fulford, Jr.
ISBN: 9781440828843
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence,...  Read More >>

Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life: A Memoir of Music & Survival

Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life: A Memoir of Music & Survival...

Author: Greta Beigel
ISBN: 9780615940724
Format: Paperback
$34.85

In Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life, American journalist Greta Beigel looks back sometimes in horror, often with humor...  Read More >>

Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History

Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History

Author: Samera Esmeir
ISBN: 9780804783040
Format: Paperback
$47.95

This book explores Egypt's legal history under British rule, revealing the centrality of the ""human"" to Egyptian...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects

The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future...

Author: A. Novak
ISBN: 9781137438751
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

Author: W E B Du Bois, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781483000046
Format: Audio
$65.87

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Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945

Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy,...

Author: Andrew Hargreaves ,  Patrick Rose
ISBN: 9789004275232
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of...  Read More >>

An Egyptian Resurrection

An Egyptian Resurrection

Author: Frederick Michael Monderson
ISBN: 9781499514452
Format: Paperback
$52.67

AN EGYPTIAN RESURRECTION An Egyptian Nobleman creates a stir in New York City in love and intrigue when he resurrects...  Read More >>

A different kind of AIDS: Alternative explanations of HIV/AIDS in South African townships

A different kind of AIDS: Alternative explanations of...

Author: David Dickinson
ISBN: 9781920196981
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Explores how HIV/AIDS is understood in South African townships, where infection continues apace despite extensive...  Read More >>

Armed and dangerous: My undercover struggles against apartheid

Armed and dangerous: My undercover struggles against...

Author: Ronnie Kasrils
ISBN: 9781431407958
Format: Paperback
$41.27

Now in its fourth edition, Armed and Dangerous is the first-hand account of Kasrils's years in both the liberation...  Read More >>

Half a Piece of Cloth: The Courage of Africa's Countless Widows

Half a Piece of Cloth: The Courage of Africa's Countless...

Author: Jane L Crane
ISBN: 9780615971254
Format: Paperback
$29.76

From dirt-floor huts to refugee camps to halls of power, Jane L. Crane traveled across Africa to see if the plight...  Read More >>

Zambia Then And Now: Colonial Rulers and their African Successors

Zambia Then And Now: Colonial Rulers and their African...

Author: William Grant
ISBN: 9781138789456
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place...  Read More >>

Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt

Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt...

Author: Koenraad Donker van Heel
ISBN: 9789774166341
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of Egypt, and using many sources dealing with ordinary women...  Read More >>

Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (Ne

Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black...

Author: Jean Muteba Rahier ,  Percy Hintzen
ISBN: 9781306580700
Format: Electronic book text
$478.37

This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and...  Read More >>

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United...

Author: W E Burghardt Du Bois
ISBN: 9780674280717
Format: Hardback
$102.96

"No detailed description available for ""The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America,...  Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of Congo

Historical Dictionary of Congo

Author: Samuel Decalo ,  Virginia McLean Thompson
ISBN: 9780585101187
Format: Book
$185.01

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Civil War and Democracy in West Africa: Conflict Resolution, Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Civil War and Democracy in West Africa: Conflict Resolution,...

Author: David Harris
ISBN: 9781780767758
Format: Paperback
$64.99

David Harris uses the examples of Sierra Leone and Liberia to examine the nexus of international and domestic politics...  Read More >>

Selous & the Bulawayo Field Force: Tribal Conflict in East Africa 1895-1896-Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia by Frederick Courteney Selous & The Matabele Rebellion, 1896 by D. Tyrie Laing

Selous & the Bulawayo Field Force: Tribal Conflict in...

Author: Frederick Courteney Selous ,  D Tyrie Laing
ISBN: 9781782822929
Format: Paperback
$36.22

Originally published separately in 1896 under the titles Sunshine and storm in Rhodesia, and The Matabele Rebellion,...  Read More >>

Egypt, 1798-1952 (RLE Egypt): Her Advance Towards a Modern Identity

Egypt, 1798-1952 (RLE Egypt): Her Advance Towards a...

Author: J.C.B. Richmond
ISBN: 9780415754354
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River

Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River...

Author: Robert Twigger
ISBN: 9781780220932
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS....  Read More >>

Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

Author: Olúfémi Táíwò
ISBN: 9780253012753
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social...  Read More >>

What's Gone Wrong?: South Africa on the Brink of Failed Statehood

What's Gone Wrong?: South Africa on the Brink of Failed...

Author: Alex Boraine ,  The Most Reverend Desmond M Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus
ISBN: 9781479854974
Format: Hardback
$60.99

""Originally published in South Africa in 2014 by Jonathan Ball Publishers (pty) Ltd, A division of Media24 Limited.""...  Read More >>

Selous & the Bulawayo Field Force: Tribal Conflict in East Africa 1895-1896-Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia by Frederick Courteney Selous & The Matabele Rebellion, 1896 by D. Tyrie Laing

Selous & the Bulawayo Field Force: Tribal Conflict in...

Author: Frederick Courteney Selous ,  D Tyrie Laing
ISBN: 9781782822912
Format: Hardback
$56.93

Originally published separately in 1896 under the titles Sunshine and storm in Rhodesia, and The Matabele Rebellion,...  Read More >>

Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Author: Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9781107007758
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. This book illuminates how state-formation...  Read More >>

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