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  • Fighting the Mau Mau

    The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency

    by Dr Huw Bennett ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • The Great Boer War

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the Scottish author best known for creating the legendary stories of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle also was a prolific writer in other genres such as fantasy and romance. This edition of The Great Boer War includes a table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drink the Bitter Root

    A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa

    by Gary Geddes ...
    Drink the Bitter Root is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint world nations are leaving in Africa in their determined efforts to destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Gary Geddes sets out in search of justice, healing and reconciliation. He begins his journey at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, then ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Helpers: An International Tale of Espionage and Corruption

    by S. E. Nelson ...
    On the surface, Congo seems to be having the usual rebel conflict. Behind the scenes is a different story. "The Helpers" - a very powerful underground organization whose members include international businessmen and high priests, are determined to maintain a stronghold on the natural resources of Congo. When American journalist, Jenny Osborne, and her photojournalist, John Spencer, arrive in ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

    by Amy Jacques Garvey ...
    First published in 2004. Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for true liberty and political recognition. This book discusses his philosophy and opinions.This series comprises reprints as well as original ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • South Africa - The Present as History

    From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana

    by John S. Saul, John S. Saul, Patrick Bond, Patrick Bond ...
    In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in the world - underscored by the police shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012 - regions ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival

    A History of Dissent, c.1935–1972

    by Derek R. Peterson ...
    Series Book 122 - African Studies
    Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Bitter Roots

    The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

    by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare ...
    For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt

    An Environmental History

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Mediterranean Modernism

    Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development

    Edited by Adam J. Goldwyn, Renée M. Silverman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions**.** The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Harmattan

    A Philosophical Fiction

    by Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds.Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD