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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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    African History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...

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    4 hora 47 minutos

    This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond. The author illustrates important aspects of Africa's history with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over five millennia across this vast continent. The multitude of topics that the listener will learn about in this succinct work ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Fortunes of Africa

    A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

    de Martin Meredith ...
    A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Continent for the Taking

    The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

    de Howard W. French ...
    In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, Frenchsearches ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    de Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    de Frederick Cooper ...
    A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD

  • Assia Djebar's L'Amour La Fantasia and the historiographic approach

    de Laura Aletti ...
    This essay will discuss Hutcheon's theory about “historiographic metafiction” in order to explain the meanings of Djebar's work; it will introduce Djebar's approach to history from a gender and post-colonized point of view; finally, issues related to language and history will be addressed. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Settler Colonialism

    A History

    de W. Hixson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance. ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Dr Philip’s Empire

    One Man’s Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa

    de Tim Keegan ...
    Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered.From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of the day, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Free French Africa in World War II

    The African Resistance

    de Eric T. Jennings ...
    Only in recent years have historians rediscovered the critical role that French colonial troops played in the twentieth century's two world wars. What is perhaps still deeply under-appreciated is how much General de Gaulle's Free France drew its strength from 1940 to the middle of 1943 from fighting men, resources, and operations in French Equatorial Africa rather than London. Territorially, Free ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Engaging Colonial Knowledge

    Reading European Archives in World History

    Edición de R. Roque, K. Wagner ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Namibia's Red Line

    The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border

    de G. Miescher ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century and ended with the construction of a continuous two-metre-high fence by the South African ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD