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Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans - Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World (Paperback): Jonathan Schorsch Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans - Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World (Paperback)
Jonathan Schorsch
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The 16th and 17th-century Iberian Atlantic was a turbulent world of adventurers, transatlantic slave trade, forced conversion to Catholicism, and underground societies. Africans and converted Jews were persecuted by the Inquisition. This book draws on protocols of the inquisition to create a panorama of the lives of free and enslaved people from Europe and Africa to Central and South America, including Conversos and freed Africans who were business partners and rivals, some involved in clandestine relations between dominated groups."

Routledge Library Editions: Slavery (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Slavery (Hardcover)
Various
R45,283 Discovery Miles 452 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Routledge Library Editions: Slavery is a collection of previously out-of-print titles that examine various aspects of international slavery. Books analyse the Atlantic slave trade, and its effects on Africa; modern slavery around the world; slave rebellions and resistance; the Abolitionist movements; the suppression of the slave trade; slavery in the ancient world; and more besides. These writings form part of the vital research into slavery through the ages, and together form a succinct overview.

Promoting Sustainable Democratic Consolidation in Sierra Leone - Two Steps Backwards, One Step Forward? (Hardcover): Abubakar... Promoting Sustainable Democratic Consolidation in Sierra Leone - Two Steps Backwards, One Step Forward? (Hardcover)
Abubakar Hassan Kargbo
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Kingdom of Swaziland - Studies in Political History (Hardcover): D.Hugh Gillis The Kingdom of Swaziland - Studies in Political History (Hardcover)
D.Hugh Gillis
R2,800 R2,534 Discovery Miles 25 340 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A scholarly and engaging study, this history of Swaziland, by an author who spent many years in the kingdom, presents a vivid account of the interplay of politics and personalities along the passage to post-colonial independence. From the early stages of Swazi occupation of the present-day kingdom to the accession of Sobhuza II as king in 1921, this book traces problems in consolidating leadership under the Dlamini chieftaincy and examines the infuence of Boer and British settlers, and of mining and commercial interests, on Swazi culture and governance. It recounts the story of a thriving small nation that sought to maintain traditional customs and institutions in the face of a powerful European presence.

Each of the sixteen chapters concentrates on an aspect of political history that has influenced the character of the present-day kingdom, and much of the material, especially after 1900, has not been utilized in previous studies. The introduction looks at Swazi experience in a contemporary context, evaluating historic forces that have made for stability in a rapidly changing world. Other sections detail the Swazi reaction to European-controlled neighboring states (the Transvaal, Natal, and Mozambique), the tensions introduced by successive Boer and British policies, the Swazi detachment during two external wars (1899-1902 and 1914-1918), and widespread concerns about colonialism and self-governance following World War I.

Travel Sketches from Liberia - Johann Buttikofer's 19th Century Rainforest Explorations in West Africa (Paperback): Henk... Travel Sketches from Liberia - Johann Buttikofer's 19th Century Rainforest Explorations in West Africa (Paperback)
Henk Dop, Phillip Robinson
R5,801 Discovery Miles 58 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the 1880s a Swiss-born biologist, Johann B ttikofer, while working for the Royal Museum of Natural History in Leiden, The Netherlands, carried out two extended expeditions to Liberia, West Africa. In 1890 he published the results of his work in German in two-volumes, entitled "Reisebilder aus Liberia" (Travel Sketches from Liberia). B ttikofer worked extensively in the forested regions of coastal Liberia and made the acquaintance of many prominent Liberians and other personalities of that era. His zoological work there is actually exceeded by his detailed descriptions of the state of Liberia some 50 years following its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. It constitutes the first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia.

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt - A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Paperback): Donald P. Ryan 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt - A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Paperback)
Donald P. Ryan
R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Lively and amusing [...] an engaging read. Ryan successfully makes this ancient civilisation more immediate and accessible.' - Current World Archaeology _____________________ '[Donald] Ryan - who has worked in and on Egypt for decades, as an archaeologist, historian and popular writer - has succeeded in bringing all of his characters to life. This is a great little volume.' - KMT Magazine _____________________ 'Very readable [...] its originality lies in the clever construction of the content. The variety of characters covered allows for a considerable breadth of information on life for the rich and poor.' - Ancient Egypt Magazine _____________________ Spend 24 hours with the inhabitants of the most powerful kingdom in the ancient world. Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra. During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet 24 Egyptians from all strata of society - from the king to the bread-maker, the priestess to the fisherman, the soldier to the midwife - and get to know what the real Egypt was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every hour and in every chapter, and through their eyes see what an average day in ancient Egypt was really like.

Mcarthur's Jungle War - The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Hardcover, New): Stephen R. Taaffe Mcarthur's Jungle War - The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Hardcover, New)
Stephen R. Taaffe
R1,672 Discovery Miles 16 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops into the jungles of New Guinea in World War II, he was already looking ahead. By successfully leapfrogging Japanese forces on that island, he placed his armies in a position to fulfill his personal promise to liberate the Philippines.

The New Guinea campaign has gone down in history as one of MacArthur's shining successes. Now Stephen Taaffe has written the definitive history of that assault, showing why it succeeded and what it contributed to the overall strategy against Japan. His book tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of technology, tactics, and Army-Navy cooperation, but also how the New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key offensive.

"MacArthur's Jungle War" examines the campaign's strategic background and individual operations, describing the enormous challenges posed by jungle and amphibious warfare. Perhaps more important, it offers a balanced assessment of MacArthur's leadership and limitations, revealing his reliance on familiar battle plans and showing the vital role that subordinates played in his victory. Taaffe tells how MacArthur played the difficulties of the New Guinea campaign by maintaining his undivided attention on reaching the Philippines. He also discloses how MacArthur frequently deceived both his superiors and the public in order to promote his own agenda, and examines errors the general would later repeat on a larger scale up through the Korean War.

"MacArthur's Jungle War" offers historians a more analytical treatment of the New Guinea campaign than is found in previous works, and is written with a dramatic flair that will appeal to military buffs. By revealing the interaction among American military planning, interservice politics, MacArthur's generalship, and the American way of war, Taaffe's account provides a clearer understanding of America's Pacific war strategy and shows that the New Guinea offensive was not a mere backwater affair, but a critical part of the war against Japan.

The First Cataract of the Nile - One Region - Diverse Perspectives (Hardcover): Dietrich Raue, Stephan J Seidlmayer, Philipp... The First Cataract of the Nile - One Region - Diverse Perspectives (Hardcover)
Dietrich Raue, Stephan J Seidlmayer, Philipp Speiser
R4,061 Discovery Miles 40 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cross-disciplinary studies in cultural history require regions with unusually favorable conditions of preservation as well as relevance to the disciplines and cultures involved. The first cataract of the Nile offers precisely such a combination, and this work employs a diverse set of academic perspectives to present a diachronic picture of its cultural and geographic history over a period of more than 5,000 years.

French's Cavalry Campaign - A Special Corresponent's View of British Army Mounted Troops During the Boer War... French's Cavalry Campaign - A Special Corresponent's View of British Army Mounted Troops During the Boer War (Hardcover)
J. G. Maydon
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The last great cavalry campaign of the 19th Century
This is a fascinating book written by a journalist present with the British Cavalry during the Boer War. He describes its manoeuvres, actions and battles in some detail and for those interested in the campaign this concise account will provide much welcome detail. What makes it especially interesting is that the author did not simply report on the British Cavalry-he was also a great advocate for it. He challenges the emergent view that the days of cavalry were drawing to their close and champions its cause over the newly created mounted infantry. Interestingly, French would lead the British army in the opening stages of the Great War in Europe. There all would shortly learn how the experiences of the South African War would translate to the 20th century battlefield.

When the World Was Black, Part One - The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations Prehistoric Culture... When the World Was Black, Part One - The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations Prehistoric Culture (Hardcover)
Supreme Understanding
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Interactions, Identities, and Images (Hardcover, New): Ana Lucia Araujo Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Interactions, Identities, and Images (Hardcover, New)
Ana Lucia Araujo
R2,853 Discovery Miles 28 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Based on innovative and extensive research, this edited volume examines the complex and unique human, cultural, and religious exchanges that resulted from the enslavement and the trade of Africans in the North and the South Atlantic regions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. The book shows the connections between multiple Atlantic worlds that contain unique and diverse characteristics. The Atlantic slave trade disrupted African societies, families, and kin groups. Along the paths of the slave trade, men, women and children were imprisoned, separated, raped, and killed by war, famine and disease. The authors investigate some of the different pathways, whether physical and geographical or intellectual and metaphorical, that arose over the centuries in different parts of the Atlantic world in response to the slave trade and slavery. Highlighting unique and similar aspects, this groundbreaking book follows the trajectories of individuals, groups, and images, rethinking their relations with the local, and the Atlantic contexts.Although not neglecting statistic data, the volume focuses on the movement of groups and individuals as well as the cultural, artistic and religious transfers deriving from the Atlantic slave trade. Privileging multidirectional and transnational approaches, the authors investigate regions and groups usually underrepresented in Atlantic scholarship. The various chapters reassess the results of the transatlantic slave trade interactions that gave birth to mixed groups, cultures, and artistic forms on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Some chapters examine the trajectories of North Americans who fought against slavery, as well as those historical actors who benefited from the trade by selling and buying enslaved people. Other chapters study the lives of enslaved Africans and people of African descent, in order to understand how these experiences are brought to the present and reinterpreted by the later generations through visual arts and film. As a number of contributors included in this volume argue, the exchanges that resulted from the movement of peoples, goods, ideas, mentalities, tastes, and images and their legacies did not stop with the end of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, but remain the object of continuous transformation, adaptation, and reinvention.Challenging the prevailing Atlantic world scholarship that usually privileges economic exchanges and demographic data, the book illuminates the multiple experiences of African and African-descended male and female historical actors in the North and the South Atlantic spaces. The various paths of the slave trade explored in the different chapters of this book shed light on the trajectories and representations of African individuals and their descendants in the Atlantic basin and beyond. Although the victims are no longer alive to narrate their experiences, the various authors attempt, even when the sources are scarce, to retrace the slaving paths of the male and female victims, allowing us to figure out the development of multiple Atlantic individual and collective encounters and interactions. Eventually, some contributors show that these individuals and groups who were forced into different pathways, sometimes were able to negotiate, to make choices, and seal various sorts of alliances, facing the challenges imposed by the Atlantic slave trade brutal dynamics.This is an important book for collections in slavery studies, Atlantic history, history of the United States, Latin American and Caribbean history, African studies and African Diaspora.

Shaka and the Zulus (Paperback): Restoring The Af Research Collection Shaka and the Zulus (Paperback)
Restoring The Af Research Collection
R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Egyptian Revolution 2.0 - Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism (Hardcover): M. El-Nawawy, S. Khamis Egyptian Revolution 2.0 - Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism (Hardcover)
M. El-Nawawy, S. Khamis
R1,998 Discovery Miles 19 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution on Jan. 25, 2011. In doing so, it examines the relevance and applicability of the concepts of citizen journalism and civic engagement to the discourses and deliberations in five of the most popular political blogs in Egypt, through exploring the potential connection between virtual activism, as represented in the postings on these blogs, and real activism in Egyptian political life, as represented in the calls for social, economic and political reform on the streets.

Ethiopian Warriorhood - Defence, Land and Society 1800-1941 (Hardcover): Tsehai Berhane-Selassie Ethiopian Warriorhood - Defence, Land and Society 1800-1941 (Hardcover)
Tsehai Berhane-Selassie
R3,313 Discovery Miles 33 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their strong influence on political identity and the social infrastructure. Today best known for their role in defending Ethiopia from Italian invasion 1935-41, chewa warriors protected Ethiopia for centuries. Yet, depicted by some 19th-century Western observers as little more than "a horde" of warmongers, and later suppressed by Ethiopian monarchs who sought to create a centralized modern state, their contribution has been neglected. Drawing on oral and written sources, as well as the zeraf poetry through which theyexpressed themselves, this book explores for the first time in depth the history, practices and principles of warriorhood of the chewa, and their wider influence on society and state. Often self-trained individuals who began by defending their communities, by the end of the 19th century there were chewa warrior groups from almost all linguistic groups who fought together to resist foreign invaders. Some chewa enrolled in the service of the Ethiopian "kings of kings", who organized them as named corps that supplemented the formal defence of the state. Today, chewa political identity, which transcended social, familial, political and other groupings, remains deeply rooted in Ethiopian society. Tsehai Berhane-Selassie taught Social Anthropology, Gender and Development Studies in universities in Ethiopia, the UK, the USA and Ireland. She is a former member of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her publications include editing Gender Issues in Ethiopia.

The Canary Islands after the Conquest - The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century (Hardcover): Felipe... The Canary Islands after the Conquest - The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
R4,287 Discovery Miles 42 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War - Forgotten Colonial Crisis (Hardcover): Edmund James Yorke Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War - Forgotten Colonial Crisis (Hardcover)
Edmund James Yorke
R3,708 Discovery Miles 37 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African resistance at this time.

D.R. Congo - The Darkness of the Heart (Hardcover): Loso Kiteti Boya, Loso D.R. Congo - The Darkness of the Heart (Hardcover)
Loso Kiteti Boya, Loso
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A History of Egypt ..; 3 (Hardcover): W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Petrie, J P (John Pentland) 1839- Mahaffy, J G (Joseph... A History of Egypt ..; 3 (Hardcover)
W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Petrie, J P (John Pentland) 1839- Mahaffy, J G (Joseph Grafton) 1867-1 Milne
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decolonization and the French of Algeria - Bringing the Settler Colony Home (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Sung-Eun Choi Decolonization and the French of Algeria - Bringing the Settler Colony Home (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Sung-Eun Choi
R2,948 Discovery Miles 29 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1962, almost one million people were evacuated from Algeria. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins and to integrate them into society. This book is about Repatriation and how it became central to France's postcolonial understanding of decolonization, the Algerian past, and French identity.

Possessed by the Right Hand - The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures (Paperback): Bernard Freamon Possessed by the Right Hand - The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures (Paperback)
Bernard Freamon
R2,225 Discovery Miles 22 250 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on Anchor

North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century - The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Hardcover, New): Michael M. Laskier North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century - The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Hardcover, New)
Michael M. Laskier
R3,359 Discovery Miles 33 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"[An] outstanding pioneering effort. . . . Scholars and lay readers with an interest in 20th century North Africa, Jewish community life, Zionism, and political development will find much here that is new and useful. Highly recommended."
--"International Journal of Middle East Studies"

"Drawing on French government archives, documents of the Alliance Isralite Universelle (AIU), Israeli archives, interviews and published sources, Laskier provides a readable, well-integrated socio-political history of the Jewish communities of North Africa."
--"Religious Studies Review"

Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims of Arab-Israeli conflicts and terrorist attacks. Their contribution and struggles are, in many ways, akin to the challenges emigrants from the former Soviet Union are currently encountering in Israel. Today, these North African Jewish communities are a vital force in Israeli society and politics as well as in France and Quebec.

In the first major political history of North African Jewry, Michael Laskier paints a compelling picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers. Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of this volume is its astonishing array of primary sources. Laskier draws on a wide range of archives in Israel, Europe, and the United States and onpersonal interviews with former community leaders, Maghribi Zionists, and Jewish outsiders who lived and worked among North Africa's Jews to recreate the experiences and development of these communities.Among the subjects covered:
--Jewish conditions before and during colonial penetration by the French and Spanish;
--anti-Semitism in North Africa, as promoted both by European settlers and Maghribi nationalists;
--the precarious position of Jews amidst the struggle between colonized Muslims and European colonialists;
--the impact of pogroms in the 1930s and 1940s and the Vichy/Nazi menace;
--internal Jewish communal struggles due to the conflict between the proponents of integration, and of emigration to other lands, and, later, the communal self-liquidiation process;--the role of clandestine organizations, such as the Mossad, in organizing for self-defense and illegal immigration;--and, more generally, the history of the North African aliyaand Zionist activity from the beginning of the twentieth century onward.

A unique and unprecedented study, Michael Laskier's work will stand as the definitive account of North African Jewry for some time.

Ancient Egypt Light Of The World Vol 1 Hardcover (Hardcover): Gerald Massey Ancient Egypt Light Of The World Vol 1 Hardcover (Hardcover)
Gerald Massey
R1,601 R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Save R267 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Flatline to Change - Identity, Reality, Conflict, Engagement. Product of South Africa (Hardcover): Michael Edd Gaffley Flatline to Change - Identity, Reality, Conflict, Engagement. Product of South Africa (Hardcover)
Michael Edd Gaffley
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hieroglyphs and Arithmetic of the Ancient Egyptian Scribes - Version 1 (Hardcover): Donald Frazer Hieroglyphs and Arithmetic of the Ancient Egyptian Scribes - Version 1 (Hardcover)
Donald Frazer
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Historical Dictionary of Ghana (Hardcover, Fourth Edition): David Owusu- Ansah Historical Dictionary of Ghana (Hardcover, Fourth Edition)
David Owusu- Ansah
R5,306 Discovery Miles 53 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ghana, the former British colony of the Gold Coast, is historically known for being the first country to the south of the Sahara to attain political independence from colonial rule. It is known for its exports of cocoa and a variety of minerals, especially gold, and it is now an oil exporting country. But Ghana's importance to the African continent is not only seen in its natural resources or its potential to expand its agricultural output. Rather the nation's political history of nationalism, the history of military engagement in politics, record of economic depression and the ability to rise from the ashes of political and economic decay is the most unique character of the country. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Ghana covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ghana.

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