African History

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

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

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terraina repository for outsiders wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has h...

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia ...

This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. ...

This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. ...

This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's indus...

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia ...

This book explores Czechoslovakia's diplomatic relations with African states and places them within a wider Cold War historiography, providing cont...

This book analyses the reform movement in Iran and the Egyptian opposition movement since the early 1990s in their historical contexts. It argues t...

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy...

In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in ...

Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats ap...

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic com...

This book is a story of success, of the triumph of man over a wilderness; of the triumph of science over disease; of the conversion of a Valley of ...