Modern History & Politics
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A State of Intrigue [Paperback]
D. C. Conrad (Author)
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ISBN: 9780197260883
Published by : British Academy
This is the first English translation of a traditional history of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Bamana kingdom of Segu, which flourished in an area that was once part of the Mali Empire and which far outlasted its neighbors in resistan... .... Learn More -
An Expatriate Community in Tunis, 1648-1885: At George's Protestant Cemetery and its Inscriptions [Paperback]
Denys Pringle (Author)
$112.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781407302225
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A catalogue of the the epigraphic incriptions from the tombstones at the Anglican cemetery in Tunis, mostly of seamen, merchants, and the British consular families. Discussion centres on the language and style of the epitaphs, the form and decorat... .... Learn More -
Letters from Ethiopian Rulers [Hardback]
D. L. Appleyard (Author); A. K. Irvine (Author); R. K. P. Pankhurst (Author)
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ISBN: 9780197260463
Published by : British Academy
The first half of the nineteenth century saw the beginning of diplomatic communication between the rulers of Ethiopia and European governments, notably the British government. This collection contains twenty-nine letter, including the earliest ... .... Learn More -
The Early Farmers of Transkei, Southern Africa before AD 1870 [Paperback]
J. M. Feely (Author)
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The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on the People and Government in the Southern Sudan [Hardback]
C A Willis (Author)
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ISBN: 9780197261460
Published by : British Academy
This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of the first British officials to become conversant in t... .... Learn More -
Hate the Old and Follow the New. Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia [Hardback]
Tilman Dedering (Author)
$57.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515068727
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv (MGAr)
Volume: 2
The first comprehensive study of the interaction between the European missionaries and Africans in precolonial Namibia focusses on the expansion of the colonial frontier. Africans entered a new world of social relations where they faced the transf... .... Learn More -
Imperial Boundary Making: The Diary of Captain Kelly and the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission of 1913 [Hardback]
G H Blake (Author)
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ISBN: 9780197261545
Published by : British Academy
Captain Kelly's personal account of the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission of 1913 provides fresh and important insights into the process of imperial boundary-making. The Commission set out with good intentions but their desire to avoid dividing ... .... Learn More -
Diving up the Human Past: Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996 [Paperback]
Bruno E.J.S. Werz (Author)
$100.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780860549833
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certain developments which are in part focused on the region of South Africa and complemented with ... .... Learn More -
Archeologie du Diamare au Cameroun Septentrional: Milieux et peuplements entre Mandara, Logone, Benoue et Tchad pendant les deux derniers millenaires [Paperback]
Alain Marliac (Author)
$92.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841719788
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book is a presentation of North Cameroon, and, as required, the neighbouring regionsÆ prehistory, back to the most remote Palaeolithic times. It focuses on a region and mainly on the most recent period, from which grew the cultures of its ... .... Learn More -
Wheels Across the Desert: Exploration of the Libyan Desert by Motorcar 1916–1942 [Paperback]
Andrew Goudie (Author)
$19.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781900971072
Published by : Silphium Press
In between the search for the Poles, the climbing of Everest and the Space Race, the exploration of the Sahara - a huge swathe of terrain, the size of India - by motor car is one of the untold chapters in the story of twentieth-ce... .... Learn More