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African Archaeology
ISBN: 9780521832366 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Phillipson presents an illustrated account of African prehistory, from the origins of humanity through European colonization in this revised and expanded edition of his original work. Phillipson considers Egypt and North Africa in their African context, comprehensively reviewing the archaeology of West, East, Central and Southern Africa. His book demonstrates the relevance of archaeological research to understanding contemporary Africa and stresses the continent's contribution to the cultural heritage of humankind.
David Phillipson presents an illustrated account of African prehistory, from the origins of humanity through European colonization in this revised and...
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600,89 |
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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire
ISBN: 9780521839358 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar examines the island's role in the burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. It reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and, through the exploitation of its human and natural resources, develop the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, their failure (due to imperial forced labor policies and natural disasters) caused the nefarious consequences, attributed to external capitalist and French...
This comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar examines the island's role in the burgeoning international economy and the rise of mode...
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486,55 |
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Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780521893268 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to "legitimate" commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at the core of relations between Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth century, and of immense importance to the economies of large parts of West Africa. Filling a major gap in the literature, Martin Lynn's authoritative study of the trade covers the whole of this critical period for all of West Africa.
A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to "legitimate" commerce, and its sign...
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266,87 |
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State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante
ISBN: 9780521894326 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. T.C. McCaskie gives a detailed and nuanced historical portrait of precolonial Asante. The book is both a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory.
Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. T.C. McCaskie gives a detailed and nuanced historical...
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239,73 |
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Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana
ISBN: 9780521894340 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginnings to the present, paying particular attention to the complex relations between the Muslim and non-Muslim elements in the population. He also examines the impact of Zabrima, Samorian, British, and French intrusions into Wala affairs. By the use of orally transmitted traditions and recensions of these in both Arabic and Hausa, he is able to show how the Wala themselves view thier past. Ivor Wilks analyzes the periodic eruptions of communal...
In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginn...
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307,58 |
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Modern Africa: A Social and Political History
ISBN: 9780582212886 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the Third Edition of a famous book first published in 1983. Written in the shadow of the many crises that face Africa's institutions and society today, Basil Davidson considers the origins of these problems, the fragility of Africa's nation states, and the emerging solutions she is finding to her present troubles. The book starts in the early years of the 20th century, with Africa still the property of colonial powers; moves on through the processes of decolonization and independence through to the late 1980s, and concludes with an overview, much extended for this new edition, of the...
This is the Third Edition of a famous book first published in 1983. Written in the shadow of the many crises that face Africa's institutions and socie...
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279,97 |
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West Africa before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850
ISBN: 9780582318533 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting...
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275,14 |
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United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa Since 1960
ISBN: 9780582382534 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive analysis of all UN peacekeeping in Africa combines broad theoretical ideas with careful historical narrative. The book explores the entirety of United Nations military intervention in Africa since its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.
This comprehensive analysis of all UN peacekeeping in Africa combines broad theoretical ideas with careful historical narrative. The book explores the...
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275,14 |
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Genocide in the Congo (Zaire): In the Name of Bill Clinton, and of the Paris Club, and of the Mining Conglomerates, So It Is!
ISBN: 9780595139385 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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37,82 |
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The Ghanaian Revolution
ISBN: 9780595146277 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,63 |
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The New Ghana: The Birth of a Nation
ISBN: 9780595149155 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,42 |
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Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War
ISBN: 9780595263660 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterparts. Sensing that their safety could no longer be guaranteed, the easterners fled to the eastern region and established an independent nation called Biafra.
In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterp...
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72,03 |
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Migration And The Economy: Igbo Migrants And The Nigerian Economy 1900 To 1975
ISBN: 9780595279104 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores that nature of internal migration in Nigeria. It debunks the concept that Igboland and its people lived in a 'closed society'. The book looks at the basic issues influencing the trends of Igbo movement to other parts of the country. With historical insights, the author examines aspects of the socio-economic character of the Igbo in other ethnic regions, and the reactions of the host communities.
The purpose of this book to bring into focus and perspectives issues juxtaposing ethnic relations in Nigeria. It further seeks to advance knowledge about the Igbo, their... This book explores that nature of internal migration in Nigeria. It debunks the concept that Igboland and its people lived in a 'closed society'. The ...
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53,03 |
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Short History of Sudan
ISBN: 9780595314256 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This "Short History of Sudan" is a summarized necessary reference for everyone who would like to acquire well-basic knowledge about the largest country Africa's in it is cultural, geographical, ethnical and religious structure and the political and economical situation in a easy understandable form.
This "Short History of Sudan" is a summarized necessary reference for everyone who would like to acquire well-basic knowledge about the largest countr...
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60,63 |
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Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture
ISBN: 9780595326785 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture" critically examines the political and cultural landscape of the putatively primal continent since the advent of the post-colonial era. It is a scholarly but non-academic critique, thus rendering its contents readily accessible to the general reader. In the final analysis, Okoampa-Ahoofe concludes that there is an urgent need for altruistic and constructive leadership on the continent, in order to promptly lift Africa out of the raging morass of abject materialism and crass corruption in official circles.
"Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture" critically examines the political and cultural landscape of the putatively primal continent s...
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56,83 |
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In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda
ISBN: 9780595344116 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda" deepens understanding of the violence--the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese war--that engulfed Central Africa in the midnineties, and America's policy response to the crises. Author Robert E. Gribbin draws on his thirty years of diplomatic experience in the region to analyze U.S. perceptions of Rwanda in the years before the genocide and to recount the unfolding of the terrible event itself. Most important, he describes what happened afterwards--how the new government and people of Rwanda, together with their international partners,...
"In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda" deepens understanding of the violence--the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese war--that engulf...
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91,04 |
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Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War
ISBN: 9780595655861 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterparts. Sensing that their safety could no longer be guaranteed, the easterners fled to the eastern region and established an independent nation called Biafra.
In 1966, several waves of rioting in northern Nigeria culminated in the brutal massacre of thousands of easterners by their northern Nigerian counterp...
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110,04 |
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Gendered Colonialisms in African History
ISBN: 9780631204763 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.
Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the inco...
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115,62 |
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The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa
ISBN: 9780631207672 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.
The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.
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218,27 |
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The Ethiopians: A History
ISBN: 9780631224938 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanity."
The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle ...
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197,95 |
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