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A Concise History of South Africa

A Concise History of South Africa

  • 2nd Edition
  • Robert Ross
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521720267)
  • Publication date: December 2008
  • Subject: Regional and world history: general interest

A Southern African history from the introduction of agriculture to the government of Thabo Mbeki.

Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
  • In stock
  • £18.99
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800

  • 2nd Edition
  • John Thornton
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521627245)
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  • Publication date: July 1998
  • Subject: African history

This 1998 book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.

Series: Studies in Comparative World History
  • In stock
  • £26.99
Africans

Africans

The History of a Continent

A vast and all-embracing history of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the aids epidemic, first published in 2006.

Series: African Studies
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  • £17.99
Africa since 1800

Africa since 1800

  • 5th Edition
  • Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521544740)
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  • Publication date: April 2005
  • Subject: Regional history after 1500

The fifth revised edition of this well-known introductory text-book on Africa.

  • In stock
  • £20.99
Africa since 1940

Africa since 1940

The Past of the Present
  • Frederick Cooper
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521776004)
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  • Publication date: October 2002
  • Subject: African history

Bridges colonial and post-colonial history to explain the effects of political independence on the populace.

Series: New Approaches to African History
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  • £18.99
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960

A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960

Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali.

Series: African Studies
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  • £65.00
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Robert O. Collins, James M. Burns
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521687089)
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  • Publication date: February 2007
  • Subject: African history

An accessible introduction to the history of sub-Saharan Africa for students and general readers.

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  • £19.99
Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980

Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980

  • Guy Vanthemsche
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521194211)
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  • Publication date: July 2012
  • Subject: Twentieth century European history

This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was affected by its colonial activities in the Congo.

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  • £60.00
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World

Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade
  • Roquinaldo Ferreira
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521863308)
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  • Publication date: June 2012
  • Subject: Regional history after 1500

Examining the slave trade between Angola and Brazil, Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural ties between the two countries.

Series: African Studies
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  • £60.00
Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya

Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization
  • Daniel Branch
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521130905)
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  • Publication date: November 2009
  • Subject: African history

This 2009 book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and its legacies for the post-colonial state.

Series: African Studies
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  • £18.99
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