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  • Crossing the Color Line

    Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana

    by Carina E. Ray ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and for contesting its ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Crazy River

    Exploration and Folly in East Africa

    by Richard Grant ...
    From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa.NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali

    by Peter Chilson ...
    Series series FP Borderlands
    A masterful blend of reportage and history from one of the world's newest front lines in the war on terror -- the endangered African country of Mali.What happens when a country suddenly splits in two? In 2012, Mali, once a poster child for African democracy, all but collapsed in a succession of coups and countercoups as Islamist rebels claimed control of the country’s north, making it a new safe ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sharpeville

    An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Devil Came on Horseback

    Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

    by Brian Steidle, Gretchen Steidle Wallace ...
    Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals, notebook after notebook and nearly 1,000 photographs. Gretchen Steidle Wallace, his sister, who wrote this book with Brian, corresponded with him ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Foreign Intervention in Africa

    From the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Elizabeth Schmidt ...
    Series Book 7 - New Approaches to African History
    Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and the former colonial ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • A Quotionary

    The ultimate collection of quotations about writing and writers

    by Jenny Hobbs ...
    The ultimate collection for quotations about writing and writers. Over 5000 quotations about writers and writing, storytelling, fiction, literature, novels and novelists. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Chocolate Islands

    Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

    by Catherine Higgs ...
    In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding

    The Continuing Crisis in Darfur

    by Johan Brosché, Daniel Rothbart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent resistance movements. Engulfed in the tumult, Darfurians experienced systematic slaughter, sexual violence, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War

    by Mathilde Von Bulow ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    An illuminating and provocative account of Germany's role as sanctuary for Algerian nationalists during their fight for independence from France between 1954 and 1962. The book explores key issues such as the impact of external sanctuaries on French counterinsurgency efforts; the part played by security and intelligence services in efforts to eliminate these sanctuaries; the Algerian War's ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Liberia

    by Elwood D. Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, Carl Patrick Burrowes ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. Today's Liberia is glimpsed in this second edition.Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 2, 1885–1994

    Edited by Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager, Bill Nasson ...
    Series series Cambridge History of South Africa
    This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual ... Read more

    $43.49 USD