Modern History & Politics
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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 -
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)
Regular Price: $50.00
Special Price: $9.98
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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 -
The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on the People and Government in the Southern Sudan [Hardback]
C A Willis (Author)
Regular Price: $90.00
Special Price: $14.98
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 -
The Early Farmers of Transkei, Southern Africa before AD 1870 [Paperback]
J. M. Feely (Author)
$40.00Out of stock
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Letters from Ethiopian Rulers [Hardback]
D. L. Appleyard (Author); A. K. Irvine (Author); R. K. P. Pankhurst (Author)
Regular Price: $41.00
Special Price: $9.98
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 -
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 -
A State of Intrigue [Paperback]
D. C. Conrad (Author)
Regular Price: $48.00
Special Price: $9.98
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