African history

This book studies the role of Christian churches in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century.

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present.

Looking at protests from Senegal to Kenya, Lisa Mueller shows how cross-class coalitions fuel contemporary African protests across the continent.

Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal.

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE.

First published in 1981, Libya: A Modern History traces the history of Libya from 1900 to 1980, showing how its first monarchic constitution was modelled by the UN Commission, and survived precariously until the military coup of 1969.

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James.

Cultured States is a vivid account of the intersections of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

[A] vivid travelogue.

The Study of Prosimian Behavior aims to provide as complete coverage as possible to the field of prosimian behavior.

Universal ideas of freedom are to be found throughout the world's diverse intellectual and political traditions, spread by the global trade in ideas which has grown exponentially during the past 200 years.

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California.

Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.

For hundreds of years, the biblical story of the Curse of Ham was marshalled as a justification of serfdom, slavery and human bondage.

The most definitive account of the Suez affair to date, based on newly opened archives.

Women in the Modern History of Libya features histories of Libyan women exploring the diversity of cultures, languages and memories of Libya from the age of the Empires to the present.

Kolonisation: Brückenkopf in eine Zivilisation der Barbarei, aus der jederzeit die schiere Negation der Zivilisation hervorbrechen kann.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

Looking at protests from Senegal to Kenya, Lisa Mueller shows how cross-class coalitions fuel contemporary African protests across the continent.

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world.

Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure.

Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion.

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch.

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa.

This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery.

A revised history of Egypt''s doctrine of the unity of the Nile Valley, tracing its struggle from monarchy to revolution.

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

WITS: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939.

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "e;alone"e;?

Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide.

This account of an evangelical initiative at Lake Tanganyika was first published in 1892.

In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions.

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Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa's wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives.

Examining the slave trade between Angola and Brazil, Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural ties between the two countries.

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions.

Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era.

Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years.

Argues that the historical primacy of youth politics in Limpopo, South Africa has influenced the production of generations of nationally prominent youth and student activists - among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, and Peter Mokaba.

This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.

An important and wide-ranging collection of legal texts from ancient Egypt in translation with full elucidation by experts.

An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated ebook maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civilization to the present day.

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories.

Explores the history of the ''Madagascar Youths'', young people trained by the British, and their impact on Malagasy-British relations.