African history

In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain.

The question was: would he hang?

Tausret reveals the relatively unknown story of one of the only women to ever rule ancient Egypt as a king.

The Philokalia (literally "e;love of the beautiful or good"e;) is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church.

Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire.

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked.

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa.

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "e;African"e; but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban.

In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts.

In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "e;world's greatest humanitarian crisis.

Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity.

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population.

Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds.

Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus.

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time.

Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada.

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.

Although Apollonius of Rhodes' extraordinary epic poem on the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece has begun to get the attention it deserves, it still is not well known to many readers and scholars.

The Philokalia (literally "e;love of the beautiful or good"e;) is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church.

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.

Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.

Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized.

How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?

The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World.

"e;Operation Solomon"e; was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day.

For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south.

For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south.

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan.

Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence.

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid.

The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

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

Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus.

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan.

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media.

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World.

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night.

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa.

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population.

In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts.

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch?

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "e;bitter gene"e; that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival.