Africa
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Whites and Democracy in South Africa [Hardback]
Roger Southall(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012890
Published by : James Currey
How have whites adjusted to, contributed to and detracted from democracy in South Africa since 1994? Engaging with the literature on 'whiteness' and the current trope that the democratic settlement has failed, this book provides a study of how whi... .... Learn More -
The Rwandan Genocide & the Christian Churches: Between Grief and Denial [Hardback]
Philippe Denis(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012906
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: 10
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of 800,000 people in three months between April and July 1994? What prevented the churches' acceptance that the... .... Learn More -
Marikana: A People's History [Hardback]
Julian Brown(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012845
Published by : James Currey
In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and with the support of the political state - intervened to end a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in South Africa's NorthWest Province. On ... .... Learn More -
West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860-1960 [Hardback]
Timothy Stapleton(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9781648250255
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: 94
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Early Symbolic Culture and the Evolution of Behavioral Modernity [Hardback]
Nicholas J. Conard(Editor); Ewa Dutkiewicz(Editor)
$56.00ISBN: 9783935751315
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
Publication of results from the conference on early symbolic culture and the evolution of behavioral modernity, held as part of the Hugo Obermaier Meeting in Heidenheim, Germany. .... Learn More -
Pieces of a Nation: South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections [Paperback]
Dr. Zoe Cormack(Editor); Dr. Cherry Leonardi(Editor)
Regular Price: $45.00
Special Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9789464260120
Published by : Sidestone Press
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitall... .... Learn More -
Pieces of a Nation: South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections [Hardback]
Dr. Zoe Cormack(Editor); Dr. Cherry Leonardi(Editor)
Regular Price: $135.00
Special Price: $130.00
ISBN: 9789464260137
Published by : Sidestone Press
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitall... .... Learn More -
Ceramic Exchange and the Indian Ocean Economy (AD 400–1275): Volume I: Analysis [Paperback]
Seth M.N. Priestman(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592234
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 223
From AD 500–1000, the Indian Ocean emerged as a global commercial center, and by around 750–800 a sophisticated trade network had been established involving the movement of goods from Japan and China in the east, to southern Africa and... .... Learn More -
From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State [Hardback]
Paul Naylor(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012708
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: 6
Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored by the jihad's leaders: Usman dan Fodio... .... Learn More -
Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities [Paperback]
Miles Larmer(Editor); Enid Guene(Editor); Benoît Henriet(Editor); Amandine Lauro(Contributor); Benoît Henriet(Contributor); Iva Pesa(Contributor); Enid Guene(Contributor)
$25.95ISBN: 9781847012661
Published by : James Currey
The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. This volume expands upon earlier studies of... .... Learn More
