History
Africa in Urban History
This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial...
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Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
The study of African languages in Germany, or Afrikanistik, originated among Protestant missionaries in the early nineteenth century and was incorporated into German universities after Germany entered the “Scramble for Africa” and became a colonial power in the 1880s. Despite...
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Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
The study of African languages in Germany, or Afrikanistik, originated among Protestant missionaries in the early nineteenth century and was incorporated into German universities after Germany entered the “Scramble for Africa” and became a colonial power in the 1880s. Despite...
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$90.00
Africa in Transition: Witness to Change
Godfrey Mwakikagile looks at the major changes Africa has gone through since the end of colonial rule including some of the events he witnessed in his home country Tanganyika – later Tanzania – since the late 1950s, the dawn of...
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Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State
At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had...
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Africa In The West
"Africa In The West: Its State" by William Charles Dowding examines the multifaceted conditions and influences of Africa, offering insights into its historical, social, and political dimensions. This work provides a crucial perspective on Africa's interactions with Western societies and...
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Africa In The West
"Africa In The West: Its State" by William Charles Dowding examines the multifaceted conditions and influences of Africa, offering insights into its historical, social, and political dimensions. This work provides a crucial perspective on Africa's interactions with Western societies and...
$35.00
$27.00
Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal,...
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Africa in the Time of Cholera
Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal,...
$148.00
$114.00
Africa in the Nineteenth Century
In this book, Edgar Sanderson provides an overview of the history and events in Africa during the nineteenth century. The book covers topics such as exploration, discovery, colonization, and trade. It also discusses the various kingdoms, empires, and peoples that...
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Africa in the Nineteenth Century
In this book, Edgar Sanderson provides an overview of the history and events in Africa during the nineteenth century. The book covers topics such as exploration, discovery, colonization, and trade. It also discusses the various kingdoms, empires, and peoples that...
$33.00
$25.00
Africa in the Middle Ages: A Captivating Guide to Medieval African History, Including the Ghana Empire, Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire
Unlock the Secrets of Africa's Golden Age - A Journey Through the Empires That Shaped the World Four manuscripts in one book: Medieval Africa: A Captivating Guide to African Civilizations, Empires, and History during the Middle Ages The Ghana Empire:...
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Africa in the Mediterranean On Afro-Turks and Black Greeks: The Last Remnants
In Africa In The Mediterranean, VKY explores the deep origins of the Black minorities found in Avato, Grecce and the Afro-Turks. Though described as the descendants of African Zanj slaves brought in the area by the Ottomans, they are the...
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Africa in the Market
While many publications focus on the aesthetics and symbolism of African art, few explore the historical dynamics and exchanges that have informed the way people in Africa have created, preserved, collected, and sold their artworks to local and foreign patrons....
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Africa in the Iron Age: C. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
Africa in the Iron Age is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to African history between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 1400. The authors are not so much concerned with a particular technological revolution as the enormous changes - political, social...
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Africa in the Indian Ocean: Islands in Ebb and Flow
The four sovereign Indian Ocean states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, the two French overseas departments of Mayotte and Reunion, as well as the British colony of BIOT (Chagos), all form part of Africa. As insular nations and territories...
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Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender,...
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Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender,...
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Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire: Slavery, Capitalism, Racism, Colonialism, Decolonization, Independence as Recolonization, and Beyond
Words like "colonialism" and "empire" were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didn't fit reality. Not anymore! Tatah Mentan observes that a growing chorus of right-wing ideologues, with close ties...
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Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture
the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit...
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