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The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and...
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
The Egyptians
This is an account of the Egyptians from the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the present day. Egypt has the longest, continuous, known history of any country...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
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In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son...
Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
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Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert
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The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
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War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations
The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
Race, Nation, and Empire in American History
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...
Emily Hobhouse: Feminist, Pacifist, Traitor?
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. 'Here was...
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations
The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
Piazza San Marco
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The Black Joy Project
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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The Taste of Empire
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Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game
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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953
Author: R. J. M. PughFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an emminent Scottish soldier-statesman who...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 796
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The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
Long Walk To Freedom: Film Tie In
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East and West
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Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
Young Mandela
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Into the House of the Ancestors
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The Buchan Papers
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In Praise of Savagery
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Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa
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Divided We Stand: Britain, the United States and the Suez Crisis
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The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections
Author: Florian SteiningerFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 280mm, 960g, 176 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2023This catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of thrilling figurative artists of...
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa
Format: Hardback, 225mm x 280mm, 1580g, 320 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 1995Substantial catalogue produced to accompany the Whitechapel Gallery's 1995 exhibition, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa. Conceived by...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Author: Deborah WillisFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 203mm, 660g, 176 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial...
America Declares Independence
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Deanna Bowen
Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
MTINDO: Style Movers Rebranding Africa
Format: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1030g, 208 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2017In Mtindo , award-winning photographer Daniele Tamagni captures a new young generation of creative minds - so-called "style movers" -...
Empire with Imperialism: The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism
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Fear of Black Consciousness
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In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Father to the Fatherless: The Charles Mulli Story
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