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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
by Sara Wheeler  Publisher Comments Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #14: Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor
by Harri Englund Publisher Comments In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around an East African Lake
by Pascal Jam Imperato Publisher Comments The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana...
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa (Eastern African Studies)
by Henri Medard Publisher Comments Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the...
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Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
by Robert I Rotberg Synopsis With so much attention paid to Americas war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has all but forgotten the spread of terrorism in other regions. From South Asia to South America, terrorist groups are on the rise. One of the most dangerous regions...
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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
by Megan Vaughan Synopsis ""Creating the Creole Island" is a riveting portrait of a slave-owning society. Megan Vaughan's elegant narrative combines rich and ground-breaking historical analysis with acute theorizing of human subjectivity. It will be of compelling interest to...
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War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa: The Patterns & Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the Ninteenth Century (Eastern African Studies)
by Richard Reid Publisher Comments War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa examines the nature and objectives of violence in the region in the nineteenth century. It is particularly concerned with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes. It will be of use to those interested in military history...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around an East African Lake
by Pascal James Imperato Publisher Comments The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana...
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The Horn of Africa As Common Homeland
by Leenco Lata Publisher Comments Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved...
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Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
by Alex De Waal Synopsis A hard-hitting and sober analysis of Islamic groups and their role in international politics....
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Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (Eastern African Studies)
by Mats Widgren Synopsis ISLANDS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE are areas of local cultivation surrounded by low-density livestock herders or extensive cultivators. Along the line of the East Africa Rift Valley, and in the highlands on either side, communities of considerable...
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Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar
by Keith Laidler Publisher Comments In the early 1800s Madagascar formed friendly relations with the European powers after inviting British missionaries into the country and agreeing to banish slavery, but after the King died in 1828 his little known wife, Ranavalona, seized power and...
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn...
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The possessed and the dispossessed :spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town
by Lesley A Sharp Publisher Comments This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants...
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Journey to the Source of the Nile
by Christophe Ondaatje Publisher Comments One hundred and forty years after Speke's visionary prediction that Lake Victoria would prove to be the source of the Nile, I had come to Africa to see for myself. I arrived laden with a great store of knowledge about the Nile - all the lore and learning...
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Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar
by G Feeley Harnik Book News Annotation Drawing on fieldwork done 1971-1973 and archival work done later, anthropologist Feeley-Harnick traces the impact of French domination through the colonial period and into the years after official Malagasy independence in 1960. She documents how the...
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Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society & Welfare in the Nineteenth Century (Eastern African Studies)
by Richard J Reid
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Plural Medical Systems in the Horn of Africa: The Legacy of "Sheikh" Hippocrates
by Leender Slikkerveer Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-319) and index....
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A History of Madagascar
by Mervyn Brown Description Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index....
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Leadership in Eastern Africa: Six Political Biographies
by Norman Bennett
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