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This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with...

This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.Reviews"Surely no need for commentary on this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059025Author Al J. VenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'The best ecology and anthropology ever written.' Whole Earth ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780195003222Author E. E. Evans-PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian...

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and...

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ...

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of a man named Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470120156Author Stephen KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry...

On June 30, 1960-the day of the Congo's independence-Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His...

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged...

On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806521893Author John G JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 337g

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062200129Author David Van ReybrouckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390595Author Daniel KowalczukFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody years in power-all while enjoying full American and Western support. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995222397Author Karim F. HirjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959527Author Karl MaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 290g

When genocidal violence gripped Rwanda in 1994, the international community recoiled, hastily withdrawing its peacekeepers. Late that year, in an effort to redeem itself, the United Nations Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for...

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an...

The first long-duree history of large-scale violence in the Congo BasinSince the early nineteenth century, political and military violence has played an exceptionally significant role in the territory corresponding to the present-day Democratic Republic...

How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022276Author Nene MburuFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 436g

Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the...

Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives-cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the...

Winner, Prix Pierre Lafue Winner, Prix lyceen du livre d'histoire des Rendez-vous de l'histoire de Blois In the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school...

Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and...

The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria: Second Edition introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on pre-20th century history, Nigeria under British colonial rule, and important post-independence issues while...

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From...

Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the interplay between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges of transforming a post-colonial multiethnic state into a stable democracy. This work draws attention to...

Ever since the end of World War II, and even more so since 1960, when 17 African colonies became independent of colonial rule, the African continent has been ravaged by a series of wars. These wars have ranged from liberation struggles against former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438644Author Alex de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 372g

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP) The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage...

Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The concept of autochthony-that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it above all others-has animated struggles across...

Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the...