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PaperbackEngels9780521101431
13-11-2008
The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half century has been a chieftaincy dispute in the northern kingdom of Dagomba, known as the Yendi skin dispute. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521271011
1-1-1983
This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? Meer
GebondenEngels9780521333542
17-9-1987
This academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful companies ever to have been established in Africa. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521863308
9-4-2012
This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521864381
13-8-2007
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521595919
13-5-1997
Eritrea, the newest nation state in Africa, gained independence from the Ethiopian state after a prolonged and bitter conflict. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521113823
7-9-2009
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521788830
30-3-2006
The literature of Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis and gloom. But Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521052689
11-2-2008
Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521379946
29-9-1989
Originally published in 1975, and reprinted with additional introductory material in 1989, this book provides an in-depth account of Asante history during the nineteenth century. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521632720
27-8-1998
John Iliffe's 1998 book is a history of the African medical profession in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from the earliest training of modern medical staff in the 1870s to the present day. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521121248
15-10-2009
This important study sheds light on the history of the South African interior during the eighteenth century, a time in which South Africa's specific variant of social discrimination first evolved. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521523097
6-6-2002
In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521523103
11-7-2002
In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521894326
30-10-2003
Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521440677
17-6-1993
The Basotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. In this 2003 book, Elizabeth Eldredge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the Basotho to the challenges of drought and famine, and explaining the dynamics of the competition for land. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521893268
2-5-2002
A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521621229
1-7-1999
In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521272247
26-8-2004
The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521470599
11-5-1995
Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Meer