African history

This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009.

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia.

This book meditates on the conceptual underpinnings of slavery and investigates its impact on other areas of Western culture.

This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire.

How long can a traditional religion survive the impact of world religions, state hegemony, and globalization?

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa.

Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade.

This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town.

Examining Islamic court records, this book sheds new light on Zanzibar''s history of gender, social and racial identity.

Empire forestry the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world.

First Published in 1973.

A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.

Le 25 juin 1940, l'armistice signé par la France avec l'Allemagne et l'Italie entre en vigueur.

In 1759 the botanist and scientist Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia, to acquire Egyptian antiquities for the Museum in Turin.

This important reference work offers students an accessible overview of the Rwandan Genocide, with more than 100 detailed articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and 20 key primary source documents.

This book uses money as a lens through which to analyze the social and economic impact of colonialism on African societies and institutions.

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies-from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers-fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets.

Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome.

This book captures the experience of the South African Air Force helicopter pilot as never before; from 'rookie' to seasoned combat aviator in one of history's most intense counterinsurgency conflicts - the South African Border War.

Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.

A revised edition of The African Middle Ages 1400–1800, ideal for University and college teaching.

By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people.

Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal.

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.

Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.

This book examines violence against the rural African population and Africans in general before apartheid became the justification for the existence of the South African state.

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the Historia da Ethiopia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr.

On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers.

In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives, Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores the personal saga of a family's lineage rooted in Zuka on Suspence Farm, Newcastle, in what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal.

This book, first published in 1974, is a study of the two states which dominated the northern and western regions of Sudan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the Funj kingdom of Sinnar and the Keira sultanate of Dar Fur.

On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia.

This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE.

Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires.

In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B.

Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "e;settlers"e; to "e;citizens"e;.

First Published in 1967.

Offers an coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006.

Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications.

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control.

In ancient Egypt, one of the primary roles of the king was to maintain order and destroy chaos.

The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy.

First Published in 1992.