Great African Kingdoms
 This series of books provides the reader with an intriguing visual history of ancient civilizations. Each book examines the civilization's history: the way people lived and worked, the structures they built and why, and their scientific and medical [... more]
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Africa Speaks - a continents' agony in poetic form
A must read book!!!: In a century where civilization rapidly takes over our time, people in search of what the future might be and rather ignoring the past, "Africa Speaks" is a collection of poems that travels back to the past in a time where [... more]
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Africa's Urban Past
This survey reveals a remarkable depth of urbanization in African history.Africa is witnessing dramatic urban growth on a massive scale which, in the space of this century, has reversed the rural - urban settlement patterns of the continent. Yet [... more]
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Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in ...
The first history in English of caravan porters, the main means of transportation in precolonial Africa.Much writing about nineteenth century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as more insidious racist [... more]
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Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa
Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the "failed" and " [... more]
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The Turks in World History
Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, [... more]
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Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in ...
The first history in English of caravan porters, the main means of transportation in precolonial Africa.Rockel's work illuminates a hitherto completely overlooked aspect of African history, and as such his work will remain the touchstone for any [... more]
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Africans and Their History
This updated version is an invaluable contribution to the ongoing discovery of Africa's central role in human history.Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of fire, food production [... more]
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Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in ...
Much writing about 19th-century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as by more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and [... more]
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Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in ...
Much writing about nineteenth century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and [... more]
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Africa and the Victorians: The climax of imperialism
The essential start to understanding imperialism in Africa: This is the classic book on the British annexation of Africa and although dated still provides some of the best analysis. The book explores the reasons for the partitions of Africa and the [... more]
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Cats of Africa: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
A 'must' for any collection serious about representing African natural history: Africa holds some of the most amazing cats on Earth but rarely are these given full-page embellishment and in-depth discussion as they are in Cats of Africa: Behavior, [... more]
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