African History

A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the blazing heat of the North African theatre, one BBC war...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-scorched savannahs of East Africa, where predators lurk and social hierarchies determine survival, the lives of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast Kalahari Desert of Botswana, a remarkable woman named Nisa spoke her truth — and in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent decades following African independence, Richer Than All His Tribe charts the rise and catastrophic fall of Dinamaula,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBefore the wilderness vanished and the age of the great safari drew to a close, one man stood at the crossroads of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: presentation letter stapled to fep - South African embassy in Canberra. At the epicentre of one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. 35pp. At the height of the Cold War and the global decolonisation movement, Nan Han-Chen delivered a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew historians have brought Marxist theory to bear on the American South and the African-American experience with the rigor and intellectual daring of Eugene D....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in Australian history carry the moral weight and lived experience of Margaret Tucker M.B.E., a Yorta Yorta woman whose extraordinary life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of apartheid's iron grip on southern Africa, three small territories — Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the refined world of an elderly Black matriarch collides with the turbulent social upheaval of 1960s America? Ladies of the Rachmaninoff...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of the pyramids, where shifting desert sands conceal the secrets of a civilisation lost to time, The Lost Pharaohs: The Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American political history, Theodore Draper's The Rediscovery of Black Nationalism presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the scorching desert of North Africa, the Siege of Tobruk stands as one of the most extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities have captured the imagination of Western writers and historians quite like Alexandria — and few guides...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched, famine-ravaged nation of Kush — a fictional sub-Saharan African state — Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, a devout Muslim and fiercely anti-American head...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilisations have captured the human imagination quite like ancient Egypt — and The Penguin Guide to Ancient...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilisations have cast as long and hypnotic a shadow over human history as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before modern travel apps and online itineraries, a compact and authoritative volume offered the discerning traveller an unparalleled passport into one...

Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew works of cultural documentation have endured with such scholarly tenacity as Edward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the heart of West Africa, where ancient animist traditions meet the sweeping tide of Islam, lies the spiritual world...

Edition: 2nd prCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: VG+. DJ unclipped in mylar. Binding remains tight; clean and bright copy. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1930s...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities on earth carry the weight of millennia as Cairo does — a metropolis where pharaonic grandeur, Islamic splendour, and colonial ambition have all...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilisations have matched the dazzling artistry of ancient Egypt, and Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew civilisations have captivated the human imagination quite like that of ancient Egypt — a world of monumental pyramids, divine pharaohs, and sacred...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew civilisations have left behind a visual legacy as breathtaking and enduring as that of ancient Egypt, and Egyptian Art: Drawings & Paintings presents this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched banks of the Nile to the shadowed halls of Karnak, Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt immerses the reader in the rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the age of modern archaeology, Egypt's magnificent ancient treasures were plundered, bartered, and shipped across the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew archaeological discoveries have ever gripped the world's imagination quite like the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: errata slip on half title-page/ A landmark work at the intersection of art history and cultural criticism, White on Black: The Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of faith, power, and stone, Mamluk History Through Architecture presents a groundbreaking examination of one of the medieval world's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the sun-scorched sands of antiquity with Egypt: A Journey Through the Land of the Pharaohs, a...

Edition: No. 406 of 425 copies.Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Excellent/Fine - Signed on 06 October 1996. Quarter bound by hand from SA. Clamshell slipcase in very...

The book titled War on the Nile: Britain, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98 by the author Michael Barthorp. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...

A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...

Many now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. To what extent is the argument about damage correct...

Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses...

'I was so thirsty for the prize of academia, so thrilled to defy the fates, that I suffocated my own history and culture, my Burmese heritage and my mother's language....

Kavalali Mehmed Ali Pasha (c. 1770-1849), often dubbed "the founder of modern Egypt", was one of the most important figures in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Born in what...

Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to...

The author emphasizes the selected nature of the facts provided by historical texts, and demonstrates the historicity of fiction. She calls into question assumptions about the end of nationalism implicit...

The richness of more than 3000 years of Egyptian civilization comes alive in the pages of this book. From the geology of the land, the first cities, social structure, religion,...

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

This work combines a guide with a cultural history. The first section, which provides a background to ancient Egypt, its institutions and its people, is fully cross-referenced to the sights...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...