Tippu Tip. Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa, Hardback - Stuart Laing

Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19t...

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a p...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Th...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The British S...

In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, ...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balan...

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part...

Contributor(s): Author: Mostafa MinawiThe Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist effo...

3rd edition. Second major revision of this key study, originally published in 1974, fully revised and updated in the new Seminar Studies in History...

*the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa

This book reveals how the illegal ivory trade is tied to corruption, conflicts, colonialism and local livelihoods.

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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...

DescriptionFrom the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mas...

This book reveals how the illegal ivory trade is tied to corruption, conflicts, colonialism and local livelihoods.

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

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...

Africa de Sud a trecut recent prin cea mai extraordinara transformare a unei natiuni, instaurand pacea si democratia intr-o tara macinata de razboa...

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Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conve...

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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James IvoryPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): James IvoryIllustration(s): I...

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

Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s...

The book helps consolidate a line of research that focuses on the relationship between Africa and Europe reason why the whole work is recommended t...

College presidents lead taxing and complex, though enormously fulfilling and rewarding, lives. The story that unfolds in College Presidents Reflect...

Reducere. Almost seventy years ago, historian and then Trinidadian Prime Minister Eric Williams published his classic Capitalism and Slavery (re-titled for t...

The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard...

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Reducere. The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one an...