Africa

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab exp...

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has h...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descende...

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to b...

From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of stagg...

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting...both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the powe...

When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary...

In A Heart-wrenching, Candid Autobiography, A Human Rights Activist Offers A Firsthand Account Of War From The Perspective Of A Former Child Soldier, Detail...

Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland — which stretches across South Africa, Botswan...

"In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's c...

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surroun...

As Recipient Of The Nobel Peace Prize, President Of The African National Congress, And Head Of The Anti-apartheid Movement, Nelson Mandela Has Been One Of T...

Immaculee Ilibagiza Grew Up In A Country She Loved, Surrounded By A Family She Cherished. But In 1994 Her Idyllic World Was Ripped Apart As Rwanda Descended...

For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took con...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s ...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinia...

Heather Colyer Ross. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 158-159).Categories: HistoryAfrica

describes Christmas Traditions In Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, And Norway. publishers Weekly the On My Own Holidays Series Offers Explanatory ...

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beas...

in This Original And Meticulous Work Of Historical Ethnography, Janice Boddy Deftly Offers An Acute Analysis Of Imperial Ambition And The Gendering Of Pol...

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest ...

Freedom's Sword is the first history to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years. From its pivotal role in overturning ...

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illumin...

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial Congo With contributions from celebrated authors...

segal, Who Wrote This To Supplement His the Black Diaspora, Is A Cultural Historian, Not A Specialist In Islamic History. He Is An Authority On The Subject...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020\“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Waveis an unprecedented and ambitio...

J. Timothy Hunt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & Worl...

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...

The Previous Edition Has Been Entirely Updated, With New Contributions Replacing Older Ones. A Distinctive Characteristic Of This Anthology Is The Range Of ...

In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independ...

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle ...

A Spellbinding Work Of History That Reads Like A Cold War Spy Thriller-about The Us-sanctioned Plot To Assassinate The Democratically Elected Leader Of The ...

In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intell...

Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization", a...

Father To The Fatherless Tells The True Story Of A Man Who Makes A Decision To Sell Everything He Has To Help The Poor. It's A Decision That Goes So Counter...

Touraj Daryaee. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [109]-135) And Index.Categories: History Middle EastIran

". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of...

In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Mo...

In April 1994 Up To A Million People Were Slaughtered In Rwanda During A Murderous Campaign Of Horrifying Efficiency. The Ferocity Of The Killing And The Cr...

Told with captivating images, an evocative text, and haunting music on a CD, here is the remarkable story of a courageous group of rural African people who...