African History

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...

The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...

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: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most profound moral and political battles stands a story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most turbulent political transformations stands Gamal Abdel Nasser —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the suffocating grip of a totalitarian Somali regime, a woman's quiet defiance becomes an act of revolution...

Edition: Third printingCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the sun-bleached backdrop of Alexandria, Egypt, in the turbulent years following the...

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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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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the scorching desert heat of North Africa, 1941, one of the Second World War's most pivotal and dramatic sieges unfolds — Tobruk 1941: Rommel's Opening...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched grasslands of East Africa, where the ancient drama of predator and prey plays out...

The 3,000 year-old mummy of the Egyptian priest Nesperennub has never been removed from its beautifully painted case, but now the latest non-invasive imaging technology has revealed what lies inside....

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...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA gripping firsthand account of one of the twentieth century's most turbulent political...

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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...

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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: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the windswept deserts of pre-Islamic Arabia to the vast empires that once stretched from Spain to Central...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rolling hills of rural Natal, South Africa, a humble Zulu pastor named Stephen Kumalo embarks on a desperate journey to...

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....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA searing indictment of colonial violence and a profound meditation on memory, The Cry for the Dead by Judith Wright...

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...

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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...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShe was the highest-paid Black entertainer of the 1920s, a woman of volcanic talent and fierce independence who...

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 jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when an Egyptologist's beloved camel becomes the unlikely heart of a life lived...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the iron-willed moderniser Muhammad Ali to the complex political landscape of the Mubarak era, The History of Egypt: From...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities on Earth carry the weight of history as magnificently as Cairo — a metropolis so vast and ancient that its own people named...

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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: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of African political complexity and anthropological inquiry stands A Black Byzantium, S. F. Nadel's landmark...