African History
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Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga, King of Kongo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£22.99| /"John K. Thornton’s new book is another must-read. It contains both translations of the extant letters of the most significant king of Kongo’s hist...
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German Sources on Safavid Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£138.99| /For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of ...
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Heritage of Ancient Egypt
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /Two aspects of the Egyptian civilisation characterise the work of Erik Iversen: Its original art and literature, and its reception in Europe from c...
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King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa"
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...
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King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa"
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£55.99| /"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo F...
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Malawi
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Malawi is one of the smallest and economically the poorest countries in the world. Yet, its impact has given it the name: The "Warm Heart of Africa...
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Narrating and Teaching the Nation
V & R Unipress GmbH£38.99| /The book investigates the politics of education in pre- and post-genocide Rwanda, examining the actors, interests, and discourses that have histori...
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Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st / 2nd century AD...
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On the Primaeval Ocean
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£71.99| /The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...
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On Wings of Eagles
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Told through diary entries interspersed with the stories of many Ethiopian Jews in their own words, this is the gripping account of the Jewish Agen...
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Rulers of Ancient Europe
Kibea Publishing Company (BU)£25.00| /A richly illustrated volume presenting the biographies of twenty-four eminent statesmen of Hellas, Thrace and Macedonia, whose rule extended from t...
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Safe Houses
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...
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Seven Myths of Africa in World History
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £17.99Current price £14.99| /"Northrup's highly accessible book breaks through the most common barriers that readers encounter in studying African history. Each chapter takes o...
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Seven Myths of Africa in World History
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£55.99| /"Northrup's highly accessible book breaks through the most common barriers that readers encounter in studying African history. Each chapter takes o...
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Sisters Crossing Boundaries
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£94.99| /The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Kathar...
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Societies in Transition
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£104.99| /The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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The Delamere Saga
Interactive Publications£30.99| /This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in C...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£34.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£90.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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To Love One's Enemies
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£48.99| /Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...
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Weaving a Malawi Sunrise
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to ...
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What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /John Hanning Speke writes about the history of his first two explorations in Africa that led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The manner...
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