African history

The Copts of Egypt, who consist of 10-15 per cent of the population, have traditionally been viewed as a 'beleaguered and persecuted minority'.

How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire?

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.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with AfricaAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally.

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally.

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (18091897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe.

'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington PostWinner of the 2023 Templeton PrizeImprisonment.

A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely watched transitions away from minority rule.

The Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa brings together a multidisciplinary team of international experts to reflect on the history, politics, societies, and cultures of French-speaking parts of Africa.

Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise.

In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world.

Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent emigres, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land.

The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of Paul Theroux.

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history ebook.

'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.

'A delicious, important novel' The Times'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world.

HarperCollins is proud to present this shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom which became an award-winning motion picture in our range of timeless literary classics.

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations.

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence.

Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures.

Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but international society too.

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt.

Spanning more than two millennia, Reflections of Osiris opens a small window into a timeless world, capturing the flavor of life in ancient Egypt through vivid profiles of eleven actual people and the god Osiris.

'A superb book.