African history

Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism.

Between 1961 and 1974 Portugal fought a war to retain its African colonies of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Alten Ägyptens mit Antoine de Jussac's meisterhaftem Werk, das die Anfänge und das Vermächtnis der ersten ägyptischen Dynastien erforscht.

Warum unterwirft sich der Mensch immer wieder Autoritäten?

Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time.

In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests.

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.

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.

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at women's football in Africa.

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.

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 includes a historic overview of urban planning in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco from 700 AD until the 20th century.

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.

A gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance.

This book offers a historical-anthropological study of Swedish Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled ';Christian nation'In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to ';actualize' the country's constitutional declaration that it was a ';Christian nation.

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled ';Christian nation'In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to ';actualize' the country's constitutional declaration that it was a ';Christian nation.

This book offers a historical-anthropological study of Swedish Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.