Africa
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Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny [Hardback]
Cécile Bishop (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781909662018
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 41
The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cl... .... Learn More -
Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema [Hardback]
Lizelle Bisschoff (Editor); David Murphy (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975516
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 5
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various cons... .... Learn More -
Prehistory of the Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 [Paperback]
Jo Clarke (Author); Nick Brooks (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781782971726
Published by : Oxbow Books
Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for human evolution, with human habitatio... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4: Excavations at Old Jarma (Ancient Garama) [Hardback]
£95.00Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 9
This is the concluding volume of the Archaeology of Fazzān series, bringing to press the combined results of two Anglo-Libyan projects in southern Libya: the pioneering work of Charles Daniels between 1958 and 1977 and the Fa... .... Learn More -
Complexities and Dangers of Remembering and Forgetting in Rwanda [Paperback]
Olivier Nyirubugara (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £25.00
ISBN: 9789088901102
Published by : Sidestone Press
Can a society, a culture, a country, be trapped by its own memories? The question is not easy to answer, but it would not be a bad idea to cautiously say: ‘It depends’. This book is about one society – Rwanda &nd... .... Learn More -
Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford [Paperback]
Claud Williams (Author); Russell McGuirk (Editor)
£24.99ISBN: 9781900971157
Published by : Silphium Press
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation o... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology [Hardback]
Peter Mitchell (Editor); Paul Lane (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9780199569885
Published by : Oxford University Press
Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed ... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa [Paperback]
Antonieta Jerardino (Author); Antonia Malan (Author); David Braun (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9781407311449
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2526
This work presents contributions from South African, European, and North American authors working in academic and governmental institutions. Chapters provide latest regional syntheses and discuss diverse topics, such as Acheulean ... .... Learn More -
The Meroë Head of Augustus [Paperback]
Thorsten Opper (Author)
£5.00ISBN: 9780714150918
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: Objects In Focus
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true ... .... Learn More -
Cyrenaica [Paperback]
Philip Kenrick (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781900971140
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Libya Archaeological Guides
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western Turkey. It was s... .... Learn More