African history

"e;As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, .

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule.

Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence.

The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe.

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean.

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe.

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings.

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

Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide.

Moses E.

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt.

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of RebirthIn the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors.

Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, NigeriaIn Capitalism in the Colonies, A.

In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras T f ri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 to form his empire's royal brass band.

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beiträge zur meroitischen Grammatik" verfügbar.

Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa.

The purpose of this book is to understand how and why "e;liberators"e; of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence.

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World.

Alexander G.

'This is a desperately needed book.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

Discover how European colonization across the many regions in Africa dramatically altered the continent and the daily lived experiences of its peoples.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Asien und Afrika im revolutionären Weltprozess, Teil 1: Ausgewählte sowjetische Beiträge" verfügbar.

What were the kingdoms in Central Africa during the ancient times?

The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar-a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "e;last million"e; escaping the Second World War.

Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology-the cassette tape-to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt.

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Geschichte der Sintflut und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesem zeitlosen Mythos.

In "Kleopatras Ringen um Macht und Identität: Die letzte Pharaonin und die hellenistische Welt" entführt uns Elizabeth R.

Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries.

"e;London men at war against the BoersThe turn of the 19th century to 20th was a time of popularity for the military volunteer movement in the British Empire.

AFRICAN HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts.

Delve into the ways Africa has transformed since the continent was freed from colonial rule.

In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members without ever sending missionaries from the United States.

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958-1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa.

The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.

Georg Schweinfurth's Buch 'Im Herzen von Afrika' entführt den Leser auf eine faszinierende Expedition durch den unerforschten Kontinent.