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  • A History of Nigeria

    by Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heaton ...
    Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Black Skin, White Coats

    Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry

    by Matthew M. Heaton ...
    Series Book 23 - New African Histories
    Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the psychological inferiority of Africans with a universal and egalitarian model focusing on broad psychological similarities across cultural and racial ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Decolonising the Hajj

    The pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca under empire and independence

    by Matthew Heaton ...
    Series Book 208 - Studies in Imperialism
    Muslims from the region that is now Nigeria have been undertaking the Hajj for hundreds of years. But the process of completing the pilgrimage changed dramatically in the twentieth century as state governments became heavily involved in its organization and management. Under British colonial rule, a minimalist approach to pilgrimage control facilitated the journeys of many thousands of mostly ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Nigeria

    by Toyin Falola, Ann Genova, Matthew M. Heaton ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria: Second Edition introduces Nigeria’s rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on pre-20th century history, Nigeria under British colonial rule, and important post-independence issues while providing greater attention to Nigeria’s role in international relations, diaspora, and contributions to arts, film and culture in particular. This ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History

    by Toyin Falola, Matthew Heaton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group ... Read more

    $191.99 CAD

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    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

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  • The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James L. Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? And what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-and-answer format, ... Read more

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

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    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Battle for the Arab Spring

    Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

    by Lin Noueihed, Alex Warren ...
    This "lucidly written" account of the 2011 wave of revolutions "includes a wealth of astute analysis on the politics of the region, from Morocco to Oman" (Paul Hockenos, The National).Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to be called the Arab Spring of 2011. Millions took to the streets in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

    Engaging with Others in a Changing World

    by Ronald Fischer, Peter B Smith, Vivian L. Vignoles, Michael H. (Harris) Bond ...
    Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes, self and identity, intergroup relations. Themes of contemporary relevance including migration, ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

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    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Read more

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  • Nothing About Us Without Us

    Disability Oppression and Empowerment

    by James I. Charlton ...
    James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a ... Read more

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