This textbook provides students with a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the history of West Africa from the earli......more

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Winner of the Bloomsbury and World History Association Diversity in World History First Monograph Prize Exploring the hi......more

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their......more

The Malagasy World integrates the archaeology of Madagascar within linguistic, historic, and genetic inquiry and present......more

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This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It lo......more

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Alongside the diplomatic struggles of the early Cold War, European politicians worked to shape emotions about the postwa......more

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa...more

The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technologica......more

An exploration of how Jihadist forces are responsible for instigating and escalating conflicts in countries across Afric......more

In Ghana, much like in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the est......more

In Ghana, much like in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the est......more

For over a century, filmmakers in West and Central Africa have been making documentaries. This region included the colon......more

Finnish Journalist and film-maker Taina Tervonen, author of the award-winning book, The Bone Whisperers, returns to her ......more

International stabilization interventions in so-called fragile states have failed everywhere they have been tried. The U......more

International stabilization interventions in so-called fragile states have failed everywhere they have been tried. The U......more

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa Printed books did not reach West Africa until th......more

This book explores late colonial Zimbabwe s troubled transition from colony to independent state from a financial and ec......more

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British colonialists invariably saw Africa protest, resistance, and even rebellion as forms of criminality: Africans who......more

The African diaspora is widely recognized as one of the world’s major diasporas. Most of the existing studies of it have......more

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The moving story of two boys, brought together by childhood magic in a world divided by race​. A kaleidoscopic account o......more

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial pe......more

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa. There are many books about......more

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who g......more

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who g......more

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In this second edition of Norms in International Relations, Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid a......more

In this second edition of Norms in International Relations, Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid a......more

After Barbary explores the connection between the United States and North Africa between the Barbary Wars of the early n......more

Between 1830 and 1850 what it meant to be a child changed in fundamental ways across Britain’s expanding empire. This bo......more

Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impo......more

A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman history The ......more

The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval Europe In 1387, a young Muslim woman from Nor......more

The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statisti......more

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, team of African scholars to investigate the concept ......more

Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert ......more

60 years on from Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, this book brings together its most important......more

A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s ......more

Admire stunning Christian imagery of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art in this lavishly illustrated volume with informative ......more

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The AmaNdebele War was part of the expansion of the British Empire in Africa in the late Nineteenth Century and part of ......more

In autumn 1951, a diverse array of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students from clubs like the Muslim Brotherhood and the......more

An extraordinary personal account of the LRDG commander of a Rhodesian Patrol on Leros. A poignant and gripping read.’ -......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Af......more

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Now in its seventy-first edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic informat......more

Fifty years after the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who’s-who of modern Ethiopian studies ......more

Leading Horn of Africa expert Charlotte Touati exposes the role played by Canadian gold mining company Nevsun and other ......more

The first long-durée history of large-scale violence in the Congo Basin Since the early nineteenth century, political an......more

Beautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of African nations and peoples, highlighting the roo......more

Drawing on the latest archaeological research, a brief and comprehensive guide to the ancient Ethiopian world. Ethiopia ......more

Tells the extraordinary story of seventeenth-century West African slave trader Crispina Peres to explore the shifting, s......more

Explores the pivotal 1941 desert war in Libya, detailing the British and Axis forces’ intense clashes. As 1941 dawned, t......more

The story of the Mahdi of Sudan is generally related from the British point of view, though it was more an African event......more

Textual Life is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial na......more

Reflections on African Art: Insights on Rare Pieces from the Bamana, Senufo, Dogon, and Baule Tribes shares Robert Workm......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Among the many communities of mem......more

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first hal......more

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explor......more

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explor......more

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In Living Law, Rosemary Admiral provides a groundbreaking history of women’s legal engagement in Marinid Morocco between......more

A concise history of the enormously powerful and influential Shi’i caliphate. The Fatimids (909-1171) built an empire th......more

This book is a testament to the importance of historical institutional analysis for understanding the reform of Africa’s......more

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Stu......more

Journeying across Ghana’s savannahs and cities, John Nott investigates how nutrition and capitalism have intersected to ......more