Browse by category
Non Fiction > History > Africa
Writing Women's Worlds - Bedouin Stories by Lila Abu-Lughod
$16.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: ery good
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the wa ...Show more
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliat ...Show more
Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak, 1981-2011 by Galal Amin; David Wilmsen (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Galal Amin once again turns his attention to the shaping of Egyptian society and the Egyptian state in the half-century and more that has elapsed since the Nasserite revolution, this time focusing on the era of President Mubarak.He looks at corruption, poverty, the plight of the middle class, and of cou ...Show more
Surviving the Lens - Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870-1920 by Michael Stevenson; Michael Graham-Stewart
$65.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Historians, public galleries and collectors have in recent years started re-viewing photographs of African people taken during the colonial period for their aesthetic merits as well as their historical significance.
The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Fergusson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting and charred heart of Africa: a melting pot of crime, corruption, poverty, fam ...Show more
Diamonds, Gold And War: The Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Markets and States in Tropical Africa - The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies by Robert H. Bates
$10.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: good
Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa's "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and sc ...Show more
Africans - The History of a Continent by John Iliffe
$14.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: African Studies | Reading Level: good
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture h ...Show more
The Mlungu in Africa: Art from The Colonial Period 1840-1940 by Michael Stevenson and Michael Graham-Stewart
$85.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
South Sudan - From Revolution to Independence by Matthew Arnold; Matthew LeRiche
$12.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, a primarily Southern rebel force and political movement intent on bringingabout the refor ...Show more
The Fate of Sudan - The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process by John Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa. Yet to ...Show more
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Race to Reach the Fabled City and the Fantastic Effort to Save its Past by Charlie English
$16.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the ...Show more