African History

The war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire for possession of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania was a crucial event both for Italian domestic and foreign...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African...

This work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa by South African authors. Beginning with an historical context for dance in...

The intention of this work is to present perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa by South African authors. Beginning with an historica...

The HerStory Project is a stirring kaleidoscope of thirty-three exemplary women from different backgrounds, temperaments, passions, and achievement...

This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the...

A compelling account of South Africas post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won ...

This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By exami...

In an important addition to the Jacana Pocket Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of...

An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisin...

Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies m...

In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official Britis...

This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge...

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was on...