African history

This study examines the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material.

This text was the first full-length study using network analysis to concentrate on the ancient world.

This book examines the causes of women''s unprecedented success in African politics after the 1990s.

A synthesis of the record left by Africa''s earliest inhabitants combining archaeology, genetics and palaeo-environmental science.

In this book, Ward examines the Dutch East India Company''s control of migration as an expression of imperial power.

Focusing on South Africa from 1650–2000, Meierhenrich examines how law structures democracy in changing societies.

Analyses the capacity of the indigenous business community in Africa to shape economic policy.

A study of the Acta Alexandrinorum and its links to contemporary literature.

This undergraduate textbook offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy.

An exploration of Nigeria''s pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood.

Definitive, broad-ranging reference work on Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoids).

This book looks at how public authority and the state are formed throughout Africa in land struggles and debates over property.

The evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era.

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A thought-provoking study of the relationship between verbal and oral texts and their role in society.

The first volume of a comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960–2000.

First published in 1816, Robert Adams''s story is here examined in its historical context.

This book gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present.

An updated edition of the successful A Short History of Modern Egypt.

A unique, multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest.

This is a powerful comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom.

Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

Reviews the reasons for and the nature of great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

Sexual Selection in Primates is a comprehensive summary of primate sexual interactions.

This book examines the processes of Islamization, Arabization, and Africanization in the Muslim societies of Africa.

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

The fifth revised edition of this well-known introductory text-book on Africa.

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

This book examines the relationships between humans and other primates and the implications for primate conservation.

Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.

A comprehensive and comparative reference work on the permanent and deciduous dentitions of extant primates.

A book about Duala ''middlemen'', intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland over three centuries.

Pottier examines how a persuasive analysis of the situation in Rwanda exacerbated the original crisis.

This book explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans.

A fascinating text describing the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees and bonobos (the pygmy chimpanzee).

A unique multidisciplinary volume offering truly comparative perspective on gorilla populations.

Offers an coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy.

This interesting 1999 study sets gorilla and orangutan cognitive abilities in context with the other great apes and humans.

Draws together exciting new and controversial findings from field research on a wide variety of primates including humans.

A revised and updated edition of Manning''s widely acclaimed Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1985 (1988).

This 1999 book is a cultural interpretation of South Africa''s colonial history, specifically the Cape Colony, between 1750 and 1870.

Comprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.

Stahl explores the theoretical and methodological issues confronting our understanding of Africa''s past.

A definitive perspective on the development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century.

A revised edition of The African Middle Ages 1400–1800, ideal for University and college teaching.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the heart of southern Africa with Frederick Courteney Selous' Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia.

In his long academic career, historian Andre Raymond has been one of the foremost scholars of urban history in the Arab world, and in particular of Cairo during the Ottoman period.

This book is an introduction to the war machine of New Kingdom Egypt from c.

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home.

Unravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians.