Modern History & Politics

ISBN: 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

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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781900971126
Published by : Silphium Press
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration. This collection of extracts from classical authors on subjects relating... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900549
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern "Southern Sudan". It gives an account of how the animistic ritual performances of the divine chief-pries... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971096
Published by : Silphium Press
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the “War in the Desert”, that epic struggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and German) and Allied (principally British Commonwealth) forces for contro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971089
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Libya Archaeological Guides
This is the first in a new series of guides to the archaeology of Libya, from prehistoric times until the invasion of the Bani Hilal in AD 1051. It deals with a region which offers the visitor not only the classical splendours of UNESCO World H... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971065
Published by : Silphium Press
Forty years ago (September 1969) Moammar Gadafi seized power in Libya in a military coup. To mark this event, John Wright has made this selection from his own shorter writings which examine and explain Libya's complex and troubled... .... Learn More

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