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We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria
ISBN: 9781526106759 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste AlgErien - it explores the Party's complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. Algeria's de facto colonial relationship with France was critical. During international crises, such as the Popular Front and Second World War years, the PCA remained close to its French counterpart, but from the late 1940s, as the national liberation struggle intensified, the PCA's concern with political and social justice attracted growing... This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the P... |
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127,84 |
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Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa
ISBN: 9781107146945 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the quantity and harshness of...
In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between pract...
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438,90 |
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Sudan's Nuba Mountains People Under Siege: Accounts by Humanitarians in the Battle Zone
ISBN: 9781476667225 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of first-person accounts chronicles the experiences of 12 humanitarians who entered Sudan illegally to provide food, medical care and spiritual support to the besieged people of the Nuba Mountains. A diverse group of men and women of various ages, professions and religious beliefs, the chroniclers describe in detail the tragedies of the current war in the state of South Kordofan, their own close calls with death, and why they are committed to helping a little known group of people--Nuba civilians--as the United Nations, the African Union and all nongovernmental organizations...
This collection of first-person accounts chronicles the experiences of 12 humanitarians who entered Sudan illegally to provide food, medical care and ...
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218,89 |
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American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820
ISBN: 9781349443536 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work...
Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Re...
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201,24 |
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Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia
ISBN: 9781784532222 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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437,21 |
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Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
ISBN: 9781349472789 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papers from a conference Kings & Queens: Power, Politics, Patronage and Personalites held at Corsham Court in conjunction with Bath Spa University in April 2012.
Papers from a conference Kings & Queens: Power, Politics, Patronage and Personalites held at Corsham Court in conjunction with Bath Spa University in ...
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523,30 |
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The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349464982 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.
Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.
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201,24 |
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The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future
ISBN: 9781349455829 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2011 Libyan Uprisings is a thematic investigation of how pre-existing social, regional, tribal, and religious fissures influenced the trajectory of the 2011 Libyan Uprisings and an analysis of what this means for the post-Qadhafi future.
The 2011 Libyan Uprisings is a thematic investigation of how pre-existing social, regional, tribal, and religious fissures influenced the trajectory o...
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201,24 |
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French Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919-1939
ISBN: 9781349455416 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenophobia directed at the Jewish population and local Muslims. It demonstrates that fascism helped to construct a racial hierarchy to preserve European hegemony and a pool of cheap labor.
This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenopho...
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201,24 |
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Slavery in the Sudan: History, Documents, and Commentary
ISBN: 9781349449118 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves and masters. Thoroughly documented, it provides valuable context to current issues of global concern and combats persistent myths about African slavery.
This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves...
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442,79 |
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José Díaz-Fernández: The Blockhouse: El Blocao
ISBN: 9781910572283 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First collection in English of a series of short stories by an influential but not well-known early 20th century Spanish author.
First collection in English of a series of short stories by an influential but not well-known early 20th century Spanish author.
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585,50 |
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The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
ISBN: 9780190655228 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's most important province, Egypt, to explain how human interactions with livestock, dogs, and charismatic megafauna changed more in a few centuries than they had for millennia. The human world became one in which...
Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conce...
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181,14 |
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Aybil
ISBN: 9780998394015 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the North African country Aybil, in the late 70's, ruled by " The Colonel," Lovell Pendleton and a group of expatriate professors work and live under SHARIA law, Arab Socialism, and attempt to find love, friendship, and normalcy, amidst the quagmire and contradictions of their everyday life in Ripoli, Aybil.
Set in the North African country Aybil, in the late 70's, ruled by " The Colonel," Lovell Pendleton and a group of expatriate professors work and live...
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99,74 |
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Les Villes d'or
ISBN: 9781539628071 / Francuski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brulees par des soleils seculaires, enfouies sous le sable, l'argile et les decombres, elles y ont pris les colorations ocreuses de la glaise, les tons d'ivoire et d'or mat des ossements et des marbres fraichement exhumes, les rousseurs chaudes des vieux murs longuement dores et peints par la lumiere meridionale. Cette dorure est plus ou moins intense, plus ou moins eclatante, selon les lieux et les ciels, selon que les ruines sont plus ou moins proches de la mer ou du desert, ou encore qu'elles ont plus ou moins sejourne sous la terre. Mais, de loin comme de pres, elles semblent toutes d'or....
Brulees par des soleils seculaires, enfouies sous le sable, l'argile et les decombres, elles y ont pris les colorations ocreuses de la glaise, les ton...
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36,72 |
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Greatness Is in Our DNA: From Being Worshipped Like Gods to Victims of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Volume I
ISBN: 9781539963189 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of volume 1 of 3 is aimed at demonstrating the connection of the DNA memory of our African ancestors from greatness of the past through the imprinted trauma of the last 400 years. The voices, sights and experiences of our ancestors are stored in our unconscious. They arise to impact our constructive and unconstructive behavior. The DNA memory being documented begins with man's first civilization in Africa and its empires across Asia, Pacific and the Americas. Included is its colonies and rule of the Roman Empire from antiquity to 1848. Western Aryan history is devoted to erasing...
The purpose of volume 1 of 3 is aimed at demonstrating the connection of the DNA memory of our African ancestors from greatness of the past through th...
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119,73 |
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Greatness Is in Our DNA: From Being Worshipped Like Gods to Victims of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Volume II
ISBN: 9781540861252 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of volume 2 of 3 is to present how our African ancestors ruled and excelled from the beginning of the multiracial Roman Empire of antiquity through its Christian rule over Europe for nearly 2,000 years. They provided the Europeans with the first civilization and Christianity in excess of two millenniums. This rule and hegemony was overturned by Germanic nationalism, the Protestant Reformation, Thirty and Hundred Year Wars, populism and constitutional limits on Black Moors inbreed royals and nobles who held absolute powers in the early 19th century. All of Christendom from Western...
The purpose of volume 2 of 3 is to present how our African ancestors ruled and excelled from the beginning of the multiracial Roman Empire of antiquit...
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Salariés, patronat, CGT et CFTC en Algérie (Oranie) du Front populaire au Gouvernement de Vichy (1936-1941)
ISBN: 9781541051263 / Francuski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage d'histoire sociale, extrait d'une these de doctorat, s'interesse a la condition des salaries en societe coloniale. Le mouvement syndical rend cette exploration possible, car il entraine, sur la scene sociale, l'ensemble des acteurs (salaries, patronat, administration, elus) et eclaire des populations demeurees, jusque-la, dans la penombre. Cette approche nous permet d'investir la scene revendicative, d'aller a la rencontre du monde du travail, d'affiner le dechiffrement des relations complexes regissant les composantes de cette societe. Toutefois, le role du syndicalisme fut...
Cet ouvrage d'histoire sociale, extrait d'une these de doctorat, s'interesse a la condition des salaries en societe coloniale. Le mouvement syndical r...
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127,31 |
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Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa
ISBN: 9781472820549 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of French North-Africa, designed to relieve pressure on their new Soviet allies, eliminate the threat of the French navy joining the Germans, and to shore up the vulnerability of British imperial possessions and trade routes through the Mediterranean. Operation Torch was the largest and most complex amphibious invasion of its time. In... Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European th... |
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85,50 |
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Greatness Is in Our DNA: From Being Worshipped Like Gods to Victims of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Volume III
ISBN: 9781542369855 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 3 of 3 books starts with the world-class African Empires of Europe's Middle Ages. Black Africans experienced the height of global civilization, wealth, influence and hegemony. White Europeans lived in squalor, poverty, unsanitary conditions, ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism. Black Moors would occupy and civilize much of Western and Southern Europe bring civilization, hygiene, literacy and order through inbreed dynasties and nobility. Their progeny controlled the Christian Church and worshipped black deities. Resentment arose among the Germanic subjects to the absolute rule and faith...
Volume 3 of 3 books starts with the world-class African Empires of Europe's Middle Ages. Black Africans experienced the height of global civilization,...
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151,66 |
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Jesus and Kwanzaa Principles: Skills and Tools For Developing Business, Schools, Self, Family and Community
ISBN: 9781541348929 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fatal shooting of an un-armed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson Missouri, 2014, fulfilled biblical prophecy. Inside Jesus and Kwanzaa Principles is the study of what prophecy has been fulfilled, and how this tragic incident is connected. This book bridges the gap between Christianity and African culture. We have discovered that every principle within Kwanzaa is scriptural and backed by the Word of God. With the knowledge inside this cover, black people across the globe will now have the same tools to collectively operate under one mindset as well as one spirit. Be prepared for a...
The fatal shooting of an un-armed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson Missouri, 2014, fulfilled biblical prophecy. Inside Jesus and Kwanzaa Pri...
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67,81 |