Thema Afrikanische Geschichte – alle Bücher, Seite 8

Paul Nugent
Race, Taste and the Grape

With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material trappings of privilege and taste, on the one side, and the stark realities of human b…

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Joseph Odumosu,
Book of Healing

Yoruba Worlds

The first book-length study of YorÙbÁ therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments,ÌwÉ ÌwÒsÀn (Book of Healing ) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bÚ healer,…

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Oghenetoja Okoh
Minority Identities in Nigeria

"Focusing on Niger Delta minorities, this book reframes Nigeria's nationalist narrative to understand these communities beyond their experience of crude oil politics. Oghenetoja Okoh explores how maj…

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Zainab Monisola Olaitan
Women's Representation in African Politics

African Histories and Modernities

Does the election of more and more women into political offices mean that women's interests will be better protected? This question forms the background upon which this book is written as it forms a timel…

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Itohan I. Osayimwese
Africa's Buildings

A groundbreaking history of Africa's looted architectural heritage---and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent's stolen cultural artifactsBetween the nineteenth century and today, colonial…

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Nana Osei-Opare
Socialist De-Colony

Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the world'…

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Armin Osmanovic
Vom Kolonialismus zum 'Schwarzen Frankreich'

Das 'Schwarze Frankreich' ist heute ein selbstbewusster Teil der französischen Gesellschaft, der über die Zukunft des Landes mitentscheidet.Die Zeit des französischen Kolonialismus prägt Frankreich und We…

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Joachim Ostlund,
Swedish Slavery, Diplomacy, and Culture in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History

This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as 'Barbary' (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco), …

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John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

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Imani Perry
Black in Blues

A "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, …

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Imani Perry
Black in Blues

A 'musical and moving' (Washington Post ) meditation on the colour blue and its role in Black history and culture Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another …

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Nakedi Mathews Phosa
Witness to Power

Mathews Phosa's compelling story of political activism, leadership, and power shifts in South Africa.Mathews Phosa has been an eyewitness to the dramatic shifts of political power in South Africa. He was …

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Dietmar Pieper
Zucker, Schnaps und Nilpferdpeitsche

So bereicherte sich Deutschland am KolonialhandelSchon vor mehr als 300 Jahren gewöhnten sich die Deutschen an das Leben in der Welt des Kolonialismus. Sie kleideten sich in weich fließende Baumwolle, sie…

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Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla,
French Neocolonialism in Africa

For decades, France has exerted a neocolonial grip on its former African empire, known as the Françafrique. Yet a series of electoral breakthroughs and military coups by opponents of this order have put i…

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Simon Pooley
Discovering the Okapi

The captivating history of the okapi and its symbolic role in science, culture, and conservation. In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapi--an elusive short-necked…

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James Poskett
Horizons

Shortlisted for the British Academy Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times and BBC History MagazineA groundbreaking, global retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the pre…

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Elisa Prosperetti
An Anticolonial Development

African Studies

In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, Elisa Prosperetti examines this question in two West African contexts, Ghana and Côte…

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Evgeniya Prusskaya
The French Campaign in Egypt, 1798-1801

War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

This book examines the cultural encounter and conflict that arose during the French occupation of Egypt (1798--1801) by analyzing mutual perceptions of the French and Egyptians. It investigates how the im…

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Nana Osei Quarshie
African Pharmakon

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out.For centuries, mental distress in West Africa h…

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Rahul Rao
The Psychic Lives of Statues

'An unimpeachable, erudite jewel of a book, showing how tenaciously the shadows of colonialism reach into our lives' - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Lives of Others'Compulsively r…

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