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  • Julius Nyerere

    by Paul Bjerk ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of independent Africa’s most influential leaders. He pursued his own brand of African socialism, called Ujamaa, with unquestioned integrity, and saw it ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Washington

    A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Ron Chernow ...
    **From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    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 USD

  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Fortunes of Africa

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Algeria

    France's Undeclared War

    by Martin Evans ...
    Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    by 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 ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Zulu Warriors

    The Battle for the South African Frontier

    by John Laband ...
    Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus,” but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio’s anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Michael Marissen examines Handel’s masterwork and uncovers a disturbing message of anti-Judaism buried within its joyous celebration of the divinity of the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Dr Philip’s Empire

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

    by 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, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Free French Africa in World War II

    The African Resistance

    by 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 ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Thabo Mbeki

    by Adekeye Adebajo ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital.As a key liberation ... Read more

    $16.19 USD