African history

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today.

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought.

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage.

Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood.

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr.

Utilizing narratives of seven different people-soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician-I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade.

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe.

Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials.

This book examines the role of the UN in conflict resolution in Africa in the 1960s and its relation to the Cold War.

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations.

This fourth edition of this best-selling core history textbook offers a richly illustrated, single volume, narrative introduction to African history, from a hugely respected authority in the field.

This textbook offers a critical introduction to the study of Africa, drawing on scholarship from a range of academic disciplines.

The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood, ancient people.

The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day.

This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future.

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state.

Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope.

Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today.

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots.

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement.

No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa is an exploration of the ongoing struggles faced by families whose lives have been upended by the relentless expansion of coal mining operations in the Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.

The West and China in Africa: Civilization without Justice is an outcome of Dr.

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone.

A biography of the "e;Cinderella"e; of Egyptian cinema-the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society.

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I.

Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures.

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority.

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory.

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story.

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed.

In the mid-nineteenth century, as European navies learned to neutralize piracy, new patterns of circulation and settlement became possible in the western Mediterranean.

Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton.

The story of the one great artist's exit from the stage just as another was beginning his career in the theater.

Africa is a big but very magical place.

Out, Out, Brief Candle!

Kids, welcome to Africa!

Is your child constantly asking you about things they see on TV?

World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch-a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa.

Africa is a continent of growing strategic importance in the global war on terrorism.

Zimbabwe is known for its rich culture and traditions.

In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution.

This extraordinary biography of the Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader (1807/8-1883), shows his dazzling spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities.

Portuguese paratroopers or “paras” began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955.

In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony’s Schutztruppe defenders.

While the first volume in this mini-series spanned the first decade of confrontations between Libya and several of its neighbors, but foremost the USA and France, between 1973 and 1985, the second is to cover the period of less than a year – between mid-1985 and March 1986, when this confrontation reached its first climax.

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, has remained a military powerhouse of that continent until the present day.

Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes,/i> explains the operational and strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War.