History of Africa

A Concise History of South Africa - Robert Ross

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

Publisher: Andesite PressAuthor(s): James Horne MorrisonNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 22Cover type: HardbackRed...

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

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

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

Reducere. Jack Malloch was Rhodesia's principal pioneer in aviation. He was an aviator and entrepreneur who left his mark on Rhodesia in a number of ways. He...

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Reducere. This history of Carthage takes us through the earliest legends, to the peak of the civilization, and finally to the wars with the ascendant Roman R...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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. Underneath the desert sands, a forgotten culture awaits your discovery...Its pyramids jut like wind-ravaged arrowheads from the ground, dominating ...

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...

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...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

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...

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

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...

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. 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. This book is the sequel to J.A. Rogers' book: From Superman to Man and is an introduction to the field of African Studies. Also published as From M...

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

This is the fascinating and important story of how God's Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo...

Reducere. The Herero campaign from the perspective of one of the invadersGermany's late development as a modern nation meant it missed the opportunity to col...

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

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa, then keep reading... Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. T...

What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organization that represents and support...

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 ...

'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative...

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

Reducere. Ancient Africa holds a rich legacy of oral cultures, philosophies, and standards that reflect today's deep moral standards. For centuries, African ...

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...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

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

Reducere. The Yoruba speaking group inhabits Benin and Nigeria. This pioneering investigation, published in 1894, reveals the culture, history, spiritual bel...

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is t...

Reducere. Ibn Batt ta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated to English by celebrated sch...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

Asweeping, provocative and very timely new history of Africa seen through the context of wealth

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

A century of South African military history in a single volume, the first of its kind. Includes the Second Anglo-Boer War, the two world wars, and ...

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

Reducere. "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, ...

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

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

On August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American r...

Reducere. Although the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eas...

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

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

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

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

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

DescriptionThe 2018/19 Premier League season was a historic one for African players in English football. More than 130 years after Arthur Wharton b...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle...

Reducere. A bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.About the AuthorDavid B...

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

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla wa...