African history

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious institutions.

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Leopold von Rankes Buch 'Politische Schriften, Historiografische Werke & Biografien' bietet einen tiefgreifenden Einblick in das Leben und die Werke dieses renommierten Historikers des 19.

For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century.

Was sagt die mediale Rede über den muslimischen Anderen eigentlich über uns aus?

Joseph Conrads Werk 'Das Herz der Finsternis' ist ein zeitloses Meisterwerk, das tiefgründige Themen wie Imperialismus, Kolonialismus und die Abgründe der menschlichen Natur erforscht.

Des Kaisers Platz an der Sonne: die Kolonie KamerunDie deutschen Kolonien (offiziell Schutzgebiete genannt) wurden vom Deutschen Reich ab den 1880er Jahren erworben und es bestand aus den überseeischen Kolonien, Dependenzen und Territorien des Deutschen Reiches.

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.

A 1960s German perspective of the World War II battle in Libya and how the Allied and Axis commanders shaped the course of the action.

An indispensable study of the Egyptian economy from 1952 to the present day, new in paperbackWhat are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy?

Examines local transitional justice processes in post-conflict Sierra Leone to explain how these programs work in practice.

Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has.

Based on a series of detailed case studies, this book presents the history of genocide in Africa within the specific context of African history, examining conflicts in countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Rwanda, and Sudan.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

"e;Lean men, brown men, men from overseas,Men from all the outer world; shy and ill at easeThere were Canadian Mounties, American cowboys, Arctic explorers, adventurers, rogues, big game hunters and sportsmen.

The transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages continue to demand explanation; in the case of Egypt there is the added question of why the Coptic language died out following the Arab conquests.

After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty.

This book investigates Afrikaner anticommunism in South Africa in the twentieth century, focusing on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC).

Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman.

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Seit Jahrhunderten beflügeln Einhörner die Fantasie der Menschheit.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "e;wageless life,"e; proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality.

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers.

Studies on the history of the Blantyre Mission in Malawi often suggest that 1881 marked a turning point in the mission's tradition, following a crisis triggered by a series of scandals that resulted in the dismissal of its top leadership.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

"e;L'oracle des Grands Lacs"e; donne un apercu particulier de la guerre des Grands Lacs en livrant des eclaircissements sur son histoire et sur la vie doucement en cours, des souvenirs romances.

This book explores the profound intellectual legacy of the late Ntongela Masilela, a groundbreaking literary historian whose analytical significance surged following his death in 2020.

This book explores the profound intellectual legacy of the late Ntongela Masilela, a groundbreaking literary historian whose analytical significance surged following his death in 2020.

Global health experts are optimistic that the end of AIDS is within reach.

This book considers the formation of South Africa's universities, more specifically those that evolved as colleges, taking a panoramic view over two centuries, from colonialism to democracy.

This book considers the formation of South Africa's universities, more specifically those that evolved as colleges, taking a panoramic view over two centuries, from colonialism to democracy.

The struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde was shaped by a multiplicity of interactions and connections.

Return of the Black Knight presents an intersectional inquiry into the global medieval.

Return of the Black Knight presents an intersectional inquiry into the global medieval.

The struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde was shaped by a multiplicity of interactions and connections.

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J.

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J.

This book highlights the transdisciplinary legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop's epistemology, demonstrating its continuing impact on contemporary Africology, which is also known as Black Studies.

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century.

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century.

This book highlights the transdisciplinary legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop's epistemology, demonstrating its continuing impact on contemporary Africology, which is also known as Black Studies.