African History

This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking i...

Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous nation...

Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time. Although we have been living with these phenomena for ce...

On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe executed a bloody coup that put an end to the Americo-Liberian minority...

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between A...

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your stu...

In this comprehensive picture of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, Lewis Gann and Peter Duignan trace the formation of the colonial state that beca...

This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed...

Reading African arts impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements...

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing states governed in parallel in Angola (19791991) and Sudan (19902002), each with competing conc...

Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is s...

Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive s...

This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South...

The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, ...

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat...

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat...

A survey of South African history from the formation of early human communities to the present. The Making of South Africa provides a detailed und...

Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), ...

Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban nationa...

Ruthless revolutionary; passionate womaniser; activist; hothead. Meet the young Mandela.Nelson Mandela has been mythologised as a flawless hero of ...

Kenya is one of the most politically dynamic and influential countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, it is known in equal measure as a country that...

A groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United States The collection of African art at the Virgi...

A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicagos extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a select...

Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores...

Romano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a pro...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to y...