African history

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day.

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day.

Eine Weltreise auf den Spuren der sagenhaften Königin Ihre Entdeckung im ägyptischen Tell el-Armana war eine Sensation, ihre Präsentation 1924 in Berlin sorgte für Furore weit über Deutschland hinaus.

This book pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century.

Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies.

Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies.

First published in 1984, Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia is a study of Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, that argues that Islam played a vital role in the development of the Tunisian nationalist movement.

At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million.

A must read for any social historian of the region.

A must read for any social historian of the region.

First published in 1984, Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia is a study of Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, that argues that Islam played a vital role in the development of the Tunisian nationalist movement.

Spanning ancient Egyptian culture (ca.

This edited volume, including contributions from scholars with different areas of specialization, investigates a broad range of methodologies, ideologies and pedagogies focusing on the study of the art of Africa, using theoretical reflections and applications from primitivism to metamodernism.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

This edited volume, including contributions from scholars with different areas of specialization, investigates a broad range of methodologies, ideologies and pedagogies focusing on the study of the art of Africa, using theoretical reflections and applications from primitivism to metamodernism.

In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population.

The new edition of this comprehensive survey of African history provides an accessible overview of the continent's narrative, focusing on the autonomy and achievements of the African people.

Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s.

The new edition of this comprehensive survey of African history provides an accessible overview of the continent's narrative, focusing on the autonomy and achievements of the African people.

The Fayoum, a large and exceptionally fertile depression in Egypt's Western Desert, some 90 kilometers southwest of Cairo, is a region both rich in history and outstanding in natural beauty.

Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the many ramifications of Covid-19 on societies, politics, and the economies of Africa.

This authoritative work examines 500 years of interaction between the races in a country that during the apartheid era became a byword for racial disharmony.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe.

Between 1960 and 1989 in South Africa, more than 130 people were executed for crimes that had a political motive.

Originally published in 1969, this was the first standard work on Nigerian federal finance ever published.

Originally published in 1969, this was the first standard work on Nigerian federal finance ever published.

Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique-a naturally rich country-into the world's poorest nation.

The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906.

Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies.

Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who-fearing government disapproval-may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get.

Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves.

The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers.

Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique-a naturally rich country-into the world's poorest nation.

The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906.

Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies.

Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who-fearing government disapproval-may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get.

Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves.

The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers.

On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain.

The experiences of a young soldier on the frontlines of the Rhodesian Bush War are vividly recounted in this personal memoir.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

Discover Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, in this thematic encyclopedia that covers everything from geography and economics to etiquette and pop culture.

For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated.