History
Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo,...
$52.00
$40.00
Argonauts of the Stone Age: Early Maritime Activity from the First Migrations from Africa to the End of the Neolithic
This is an important book. Too often in the past archaeologists have ignored or underestimated sea travel in early prehistory but the evidence has been growing and now it is presented to us in full in this thought provoking study....
$94.00
$72.00
Are We There Yet?: Chasing a Childhood Through South Africa
In 2003 David Smiedt traveled to South Africa and found a very different country from the one he left in 1989 at the age of 19. This stirring memoir covers Smiedt’s travels across a post-Apartheid nation full of confusion and...
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Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa's Deep History
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
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Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa's Deep History
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
$52.00
$40.00
Archives of Empire: Volume 2. the Scramble for Africa
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of...
$215.00
$165.00
Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of...
$54.00
$41.00
Archival Theory, Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape, South Africa
Since absolute dating of rock art is limited, relative chronologies remain useful in contextualising interpretations of ancient images. This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to...
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$80.00
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen...
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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen...
$156.00
$120.00
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800
An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic historySome of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo,...
$85.00
$65.00
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community...
$332.00
$255.00
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community...
$102.00
$78.00
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with...
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$80.00
Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company
2026 Architectural Book Award, History CategoryThis open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).From...
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$35.00
Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company
2026 Architectural Book Award, History CategoryThis open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).From...
$156.00
$120.00
The Ancient Gold Fields Of Africa: From The Gold Coast To Mashonaland (1891)
The Ancient Gold Fields of Africa: From the Gold Coast to Mashonaland is a book written by John M. Stuart and first published in 1891. The book provides a detailed account of the gold fields of Africa, including the Gold...
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Ancient Egypt in Africa
Geographically, Egypt is clearly on the African continent, yet Ancient Egypt is routinely regarded as a non-African cultural form. The significance of Ancient Egypt for the rest of Africa is a hotly debated issue with complex ramifications. This book considers...
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$67.00
Ancient Egypt in Africa
Geographically, Egypt is clearly on the African continent, yet Ancient Egypt is routinely regarded as a non-African cultural form. The significance of Ancient Egypt for the rest of Africa is a hotly debated issue with complex ramifications. This book considers...
$344.00
$265.00
The Ancient Distribution of Ungulate Mammals in the Middle East: Fauna and Archeological Sites in Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa
The distribution of ancestor forms of goat, sheep, cattle, pig, horse, donkey, camel and dog are depicted on eight partial maps (A VI 16 1-8). The recent remaining areas of the wild ancestors (that still exist), as well as the...
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