History of Africa

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This first book about stone tools written specifically for Eastern African archaeology by an expert stoneworker, teaches students how to 'read' sto...

Reducere. Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.Illustrations: 3 Line ...

For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories of their creation, ownership, ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): A. G. (University of Cambridge) HopkinsIllustration(s): 17 Maps; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Tabl...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy I was born in Africa sprouted into being when the author asked herself, amidst her deepest dark night of the soul in 2004, why she h...

In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, published in 2006, David Wengrow provides an interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynast...

Reducere. DescriptionHow West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval worldThe Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of excha...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History...

This book is designed to inform, engage, and stimulate discussions among its readers. Collins and his collaborators have included authoritative sta...

Reducere. Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history....

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Reducere. The last several decades have seen the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a Jewish rebirth that is occurring throughout Africa. A variety of dif...

DescriptionCo-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa i...

This book presents a unique and multi-faceted history youth development in South Africa through the lens of a South African NGO prominent in youth ...

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigeno...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume II of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all o...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Eivind Heldaas SelandIllustration(s): 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africa...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume I of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all ov...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

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Speke returned to London first and broke an agreement with Burton to withhold his report to the Royal Geographical Society until Burton returned.Pu...

Reducere. Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Euro...

Reducere. A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treas...

This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregat...

Reducere. Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provoc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. EbyAuthor: Fred MortonThis game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World T...

Reducere. The map of world Christianity has changed dramatically, with a large number of Christians living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This text is a...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the hi...

Reducere. Every single person occupies a point in the planet earth. Everyone belongs to a community of persons which starts with one's family and roots. This...

A new investigation into Hammarskjoeld's role in the decolonisation of Africa during the Cold War offers startling conclusions.

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott MaceachernFor the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations f...

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on t...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

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In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslave...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

Reducere. This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

Looking at how French colonial rule invented the concept of the Maghreb, carving it out as something distinct from sub-Saharan African and the Midd...

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume inve...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Reducere. The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois, Paperback

This is the third in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the first two volumes which have sold well, Black Sta...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Susan WilliamsIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 400Publication da...

Reducere. A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsAuthor(s): Philip BeaverIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 546Pub...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

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Reducere. The great struggle for imperial dominance in the ancient worldAlthough this history of Carthage covers events from the earliest days of that state,...

This book-ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent-takes readers on a journey through the d...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Thula SimpsonNumber of pages: 632Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 232 x 53Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. This dramatic story spans 122 years and highlights challenges faced by four generations of an initially British aristocratic family in Kenya, with ...

Reducere. African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa, ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given ri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one b...

The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more tha...

A Concise History of South Africa - Robert Ross