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  • Slavery and Slaving in African History

    by Sean Stilwell ...
    Series Book 8 - New Approaches to African History
    This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Looting Machine

    Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

    by Tom Burgis ...
    A searing exposé of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots, and corporate raiders pillaging Africa’s vast natural wealth.**“A brave, defiant book.” —**The New York TimesAfrica is the world’s poorest continent and yet, arguably, its richest. Its abundance of natural resources has attracted foreign oilmen, oligarchs, and jet-setting executives, as well as local despots and militiamen ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets

    Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past

    by Max du Preez ...
    South African history will never be the same again … Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written in an engaging and lively style. Instead of regurgitating the story of Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Last Slave Market

    Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade

    by Alastair Hazell ...
    John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous, tragic expedition up the Zambezi river between 1859 and 1863. Three years later, Kirk returned to Africa, to the notorious island of Zanzibar, ancient post of the slave trade between Africa and the Middle East.Half a century after the abolition of slavery in Britain, slave traffi cking persisted ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • William Charles Baldwin, Another African Hunter, Illustrated

    by A H Guernsey ...
    A Brief Illustrated look at Baldwins adventures as a big game hunter in equatorial Africa during the mid 19th century. ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

  • Tinderbox

    How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

    by Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin ...
    In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Apartheid

    Racial Segregation in South Africa

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of apartheid in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of apartheid in South Africa. For over 40 years, South Africa maintained a white supremacist regime which denied black citizens the same rights and opportunities as their white counterparts. The regime, which was established and ... Read more

    $18.66 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain

    1820 Settler

    by Ralph Goldswain ...
    This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the borders being pushed ever farther into the hinterland by successive governors. As a result, there ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tunisia Since the Arab Conquest

    The Saga of a Westernized Muslim State

    by Jacob Abadi ...
    This comprehensive history of Tunisia covers an essential period in the country's development, from the Arab conquest of the seventh century to the Jasmine Revolution and the fall of Ben Ali's regime in 2010. Tunisia since the Arab Conquest describes the evolution of the Tunisian state, its place in the Mediterranean basin and its contacts with the civilizations of that region. Beginning with the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slaves into Workers

    Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan

    by Ahmad Alawad Sikainga ...
    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Series
    Unlike African slavery in Europe and the Americas, slavery in the Sudan and other parts of Africa persisted well into the twentieth century. Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on a larger, institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898, they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Understanding the City through its Margins

    Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

    Edited by André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist without its margins, both materially, ideationally, and socially. In this book the margins are, first, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten People

    Restoring a Missing Segment of Plaquemines Parish History

    by Rev. Tyronne Edwards ...
    The Forgotten People: Restoring a Missing Segment of Plaquemines Parish History chronicles the little-known but inspiring achievement of African Americans in dismantling institutional racism in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, located at the end of the United States. Rev. Tyronne Edwards, a lifelong resident and spiritual leader of the parish, introduces the reader to people cultivating a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD