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Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) by Julia A. Clancy-Smith Publisher Comments Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival by George Hussein Obama Publisher Comments President Obama's Kenyan half-brother describes his hard-knocks life in Africa, during which he embraced alcohol and petty crime until finally hitting the road to recovery, in a memoir where the author also gives a frank assessment of Kenyan political... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt by Nina Burleigh Publisher Comments Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In and out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David A. McMurray Publisher Comments Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $19.97 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation by Donald S. Rothchild Publisher Comments Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire by Johannes Fabian Publisher Comments This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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What Is Africa's Problem? by Yoweri Museveni Publisher Comments Recent seismic shifts in Congo and Rwanda have exposed the continued volatility of the state of affairs in central Africa. As African states have shaken off their postcolonial despots, new leaders with sweeping ideas about a pan-African alliance have... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $22.63 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey by Mary L. Dudziak Publisher Comments The story of Thurgood Marshall's journey to Africa in 1969 to help Kenyan independence leaders write their constitution is told in an intriguing work that recounts how his involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $21.23 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm by Lauren St. John Publisher Comments Traces the author's coming-of-age in civil-war-torn Rhodesia, where her family settled after purchasing the farm of a brutally murdered family, detailing a youth marked by terrorism, dangerous wild animals, and the author's embittered realization that... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole Publisher Comments In this& vivid and timely history, Juan Cole& tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt.& Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and& showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole& delves into... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szasz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey through the World of Militant Islam by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine presents a detailed account of contemporary Egyptian politics and culture that predicts a takeover by the country's Islamic militants, profoundly affecting the Arab world in the process. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Forced to Grow by Sindiwe Magona Publisher Comments This is the story of an ambitious, determined woman--deserted by her husband at age 23 with three children under 6--who made it out of the black ghetto of Guguletu, put herself through high school and college, then grad school at Columbia, and obtained a... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Conquest of Morocco by Douglas Porch Publisher Comments Details the early twentieth-century French conquest of the medieval kingdom of Morocco, discussing the French military leaders, the Moroccan rulers, the battles, and the mysterious, exotic land of Morocco.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds Publisher Comments Life's changes. They happen every day. Some large, some small. A few are very personal. Others impact the world. Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope includes original and inspiring essays that celebrate the glories gained... (read more) Your price: $23.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus Publisher Comments A broad but concise and extremely readable history of Ethiopia from prehistory through today. New material makes it the most up-to-date history available in one volume.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid by Peter Gill Publisher Comments The Ethiopian famine of 25 years ago was the greatest humanitarian disaster of the late 20th century, killing more than 600,000 people before the world took notice. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicenter of the famine in 1984 and he... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $25.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Expectations of Modernity by James Ferguson Publisher Comments An ethnography of the Zambian copperbelt, focusing on its economic decline and the people's understanding of it. This is put in the context of earlier anthropological writings on the region that assumed an opposition between urban/modern and rural... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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False Papers by André Aciman Publisher Comments In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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