African History

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to Bombay, China to Australia, back to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this is the story of the heiresses. Their assets, the product of...

The book titled The Spices of Life by the author Troth Wells. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1948, a young white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. For she had met, fallen in love with and married Seretse Khama, an African...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before European boots left their first prints on Australian soil, a civilization of extraordinary depth and complexity had already written its story across...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of an era defined by conquest, diplomacy, and the relentless march of empire, Milestones of History 9: Nations and Empires chronicles...

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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: 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,...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered public figures, a man synonymous with the long, bitter struggle to rid South Africa of an apartheid regime and replace it...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew lives have bridged the chasm between battlefield and statecraft as dramatically as that of Jan Christian Smuts — soldier,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched hills of Natal, South Africa, a humble Zulu pastor named Stephen Kumalo embarks on a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the vivid, boundary-defying world of Mousganistan, Belgian-Moroccan photographer Mous Lamrabat constructs an entirely imaginary nation — a utopian land where Islamic culture collides, fuses, and...

An examination of Serowe's recent past - seen through the words and memories of the village inhabitants.

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Note: unclipped dj. Clean and bright copy. At the crossroads of monarchy, religion, and political power, The Commander of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the volatile backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, Episode by Harry Bloom is a gripping and morally charged novel that chronicles...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedAt the height of the Cold War, when the African continent was a critical theatre of ideological contest, Soviet scholars trained their analytical gaze...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of European power, when great nations carved the globe into colonies and protectorates, a new world order was being written —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn The Dream of Kilimanjaro, Swedish diplomat and naturalist Rolf Edberg presents a profound meditation on humanity's relationship with the natural world,...