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  • Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World

    The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885

    From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercialrelations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the trade in ivory and agricultural produce: Hula, known to European traders as ... Leer más

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  • Biographies Between Spheres of Empire

    Life History Approaches to Colonial Africa

    Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history. This is particularly true of Africa, where empires competed with one another and colonial society was characterised by rigid divisions. In this book, five biographical studies explore how, in the course of their lives, interpreters, landowners, students and traders navigated the boundaries between the various spaces of the ... Leer más

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • John A. Costello The Reluctant Taoiseach

    A Biography of John A. Costello

    John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise choice who battled against taking the job, Costello was the Reluctant Taoiseach. Historian and political correspondent David McCullagh charts the life of ... Leer más

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  • Sharpeville

    An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

    de Tom Lodge ...
    On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's ... Leer más

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  • Recalling the Belgian Congo

    Conversations and Introspection

    Series Libro 9 - New Directions in Anthropology
    When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely held in present-day Belgium: these officers were not the "baddies" she had expected to meet.Exploring ... Leer más

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  • The American Crucible

    Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

    The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave ... Leer más

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  • In Idi Amin’s Shadow

    Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda

    Series Libro 28 - New African Histories
    In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the violence of Amin’s militarism resulted in both opportunities and challenges for women. Some assumed ... Leer más

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  • No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky

    The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74

    Series series African History Archive
    No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Though perhaps less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an ... Leer más

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  • 50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation

    Standing by the Republic

    de John Drennan ...
    From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this essential book finally traces the fall of the first Republic via the tragic-comic dénouement of the Cowen ... Leer más

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  • Xenophobia in South Africa

    A History

    Series series History (R0)
    This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went to Alexandra and undertook an ethnographic study of why this violence occurred. Presented here, his ... Leer más

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  • The Common Wind

    Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

    This widely acclaimed and influential work of African American history traces the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era.“An important part of the tradition of scholarship that puts the end of modern slavery in a global perspective.” —Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams and Race RebelOut of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind ... Leer más

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