African history books

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Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto

Author: Olúfémi Táíwò
ISBN: 9780253012722
Format: Hardback
$138.95

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

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid...

Author: Tiffany Fawn Jones
ISBN: 9780415754484
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book is an examination of South African mental institutions and policy from 1939-1994. It examines how racial,...  Read More >>

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325-1354: Volume IV

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325-1354: Volume IV...

Author: H.A.R. Gibb ,  C.F. Beckingham
ISBN: 9781472441096
Format: Undefined
$1056.00

This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment...  Read More >>

A History of Zimbabwe

A History of Zimbabwe

Author: Alois S. Mlambo (University of Pretoria)
ISBN: 9781107684799
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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

Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs

Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community...

Author: C. Onwumechili ,  G. Akindes
ISBN: 9781137355805
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top...  Read More >>

The Historical Figures of the New African Movement

The Historical Figures of the New African Movement

Author: Ntongola Masilela
ISBN: 9781592219001
Format: Paperback
$75.01

The New African Movement stretched over a century from about 1862 to 1960. It consisted of writers, political and...  Read More >>

African Conquests of Europeans Have Been Hidden Mysteriously: King Menelik Triumphant Over Italians, British Beating by Africans, French Fear Haitians

African Conquests of Europeans Have Been Hidden Mysteriously:...

Author: Dan Edward Knight Sr
ISBN: 9781499385427
Format: Paperback
$787.20

The greatest warrior on the planet is the African. This is case in point in Haiti over the French. Ethiopia over...  Read More >>

A History of Zimbabwe

A History of Zimbabwe

Author: Alois S. Mlambo (University of Pretoria)
ISBN: 9781107021709
Format: Hardback
$194.04

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

A Concise History of the Arabs

A Concise History of the Arabs

Author: John McHugo
ISBN: 9781595589507
Format: Electronic book text
$71.15

An accessible and essential introduction to the history of the Arab world for the general reader, covering fourteen...  Read More >>

Drought at Dawn: Eclipse of a Daunting People

Drought at Dawn: Eclipse of a Daunting People

Author: Mazi Ngozi Ottih
ISBN: 9781499343502
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Drought at the Niger and Benue rivers may have adversely affected the population of Southeastern Nigeria, but their...  Read More >>

V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism

V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism

Author: Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781781381083
Format: Undefined
$263.87

VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves...  Read More >>

First in, Last out: The South African Artillery in Action: 1975–1988

First in, Last out: The South African Artillery in Action:...

Author: Clive Wilsworth
ISBN: 9781920143404
Format: Paperback
$79.07

From the 25–pounder to the devastating G5 and G6 guns, to the Valkirie 127mm multiple-rocket launcher and M5 mortar,...  Read More >>

Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo

Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic...

Author: Reem A. Meshal
ISBN: 9789774166174
Format: Hardback
$128.08

In this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand...  Read More >>

Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation

Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity,...

Author: Drucilla Cornell
ISBN: 9780823257584
Format: Paperback
$45.95

The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after...  Read More >>

The Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa

Author: M E Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781306344654
Format: Electronic book text
$208.93

This is the second major revision of this key Seminar Study which was originally published in 1974. The book contrasts...  Read More >>

Colours the Love

Colours the Love

Author: Maria Delcarme
ISBN: 9781480909427
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Colours the Love by Maria Delcarme Colors the Love chronicles the author's extraordinary perspectives having been...  Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of Burundi

Historical Dictionary of Burundi

Author: Ellen K. Eggers ,  Warren Weinstein
ISBN: 9780585103013
Format: Book
$135.96

Containing entries on important national figures, political parties, and the military, this text aims to give the...  Read More >>

Zimbabwe: Mired in Transition

Zimbabwe: Mired in Transition

Author: Eldred V Masunungure ,  Jabusile M Shumba
ISBN: 9781779222022
Format: Paperback
$80.21

"Three years after the advent of Zimbabwe's Inclusive Government in February 2009, the country still awaits the...  Read More >>

Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation

Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity,...

Author: Drucilla Cornell
ISBN: 9780823257577
Format: Hardback
$166.95

The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after...  Read More >>

Amisom: The Battle for Somalia 2006-2013

Amisom: The Battle for Somalia 2006-2013

Author: Andrew Stewart
ISBN: 9781909384675
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading

Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its...

Author: Thomas Norman Dewolf
ISBN: 9781299562875
Format: Electronic book text
$44.88

In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history,...  Read More >>

Tunisia - Culture Smart!

Tunisia - Culture Smart!

Author: Gerald Zarr
ISBN: 9781299563841
Format: Undefined
$26.27

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring...  Read More >>

Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa's Cultural and Educational Exchange with the United States, 1960–1999

Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa's...

Author: Daniel Whitman ,  Daniel Whitman
ISBN: 9781438451213
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Inspiring oral history of the impact of cultural and educational exchange between South Africa and the United States...  Read More >>

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