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  • The Scramble for Africa

    by M. E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia – was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the ‘scramble’ or ‘race’ for Africa, the period of around 20 years during which European powers carved up the continent with little or no consultation of its inhabitants.In her classic overview, M.E. Chamberlain ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by Harper Lee ...
    Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent ... Read more

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  • Mandela

    The Authorised Biography

    by Anthony Sampson ...
    Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.Long after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remained an inspirational figure to millions – both in his homeland and far beyond. He has been, without doubt, one of the most important figures in ... Read more

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  • Through the Dark Continent

    Volume 1

    by Henry M. Stanley ...
    Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, ... Read more

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  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Imagining Serengeti

    A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

    by Jan Bender Shetler ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

    by James L. A. Webb, Jr ...
    The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors, parasites and malarial disease that have shaped the programs of malaria control and altered the transmission of malarial infections. It examines the history of malaria control and eradication in the contexts of racial thought, population movements, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Sudan under Wingate

    Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1916

    by Gabriel Warburg ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1971: The purpose of this book is to describe and to analyse the administrative policies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan during the formative years of the Condominium. The period chosen for this purpose corresponds with the governor-generalship of Sir Reginald Wingate, whose seventeen years as governor-general so the Sudan had a lasting effect on later development. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Liberian Civil War

    by Mark Huband ...
    The civil war in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship; instead the seeds of Liberia's devastation were sown. Mark Huband's account of the conflict is a portrayal of the war as it unfolded, drawing on the author's experience of living amongst the fighters. ... Read more

    $79.99 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

  • West African Studies

    by Mary Kingsley ...
    Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Africa and the West

    A History and Reparations

    by Odi Moghalu ...
    The rise of Western powers to global dominance is understood without excluding the relationship of Western Europe and the Americas with Africa between the 1400s and late 1800s. The industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries Europe rests significantly on the labour, intellect and overall industry of Africans. The forced migration of about 12 million Africans to three different continents ... Read more

    $3.99 USD