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Sir Glyn Jones: A Proconsul in Africa
by Colin Baker  Publisher Comments Sir Glyn Jones, as last governor of Nyasaland, oversaw the transition of the country to Malawi. Involving widespread unrest, the removal of a governor, a state of emergency and commission of enquiry from London, these were some of the most stormy...
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Ethiopian Studies; Proceedings.
by Siegbert Uhlig Book News Annotation This publication contains selected papers from the proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, held in Hamburg, Germany, in July of 2003. Presented in alphabetical order by author in each section, the 129 papers cover a...
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Understanding Contemporary Africa 3RD Edition
by April A Gordon Book News Annotation April Gordon (sociology, Winthrop U.) and Donald Gordon (political science, Furman U.) present a textbook written for use in introductory undergraduate courses on Africa. Chapters overview themes of politics, economics, international relations...
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Current Research in Egyptology 2006
by Maria Cannata Publisher Comments The Seventh annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2006) was held on 6-8 April 2006, at the University of Oxford, and brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology from institutions world-wide. A total of 44 students...
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Beyond Economic Liberalization in Africa: Structural Adjustment & the Alternatives
by Kidane Mengisteab Publisher Comments This book asserts two central questions in African development today: have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the...
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Wars of the British Empire; 15V.
by Review These volumes, each devoted to a separate battle, provide a thoughtful, detailed, and well-illustrated narrative with careful reconstruction of strategy, terrain, preparation, stages of battle, capabilities of the soldiers, and the myriad political...
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Zanzibar: Its History and Its People
by W. H Ingrams Synopsis This reprint of this celebrated classic text on Zanzibar makes available again the remarkably comprehensive account of the Island of Cloves, written by W. H. Ingrams and first published in 1931. Zanzibar, Its History and Its People is essentially an...
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Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa
by Edmward West Book News Annotation Published in conjunction with a year 2000 exhibition held at the U. of Michigan Museum of Art, this square format book (11.5x11.5) presents several brief interpretive essays and an interview with the artist; but most pages are devoted to West's...
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Ripe for Resolution: Conflict & Intervention in Africa
by William Zartman Publisher Comments What causes local conflict in Africa and the rest of the Third World? What role, if any, can the U.S. play in helping to resolve these conflicts, and when is the ripe moment for a response by an external power? This new study, written by the...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Czech Institute of Egyptology II
by Publisher Comments The second volume of the library catalogue, covering chiefly the sections on Archaeology and Philology. The Catalogue covers the library fund from the beginning of the existence of Prague Egyptological seminar, through the enlargement due to Jaroslav...
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African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892
by Roy Maclaren Book News Annotation The most recent complete collection of Stair's diaries, with a new translation of the Katanga diaries--Stair's official account of Sir Henry M. Stanley's trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last of "Chinese" Gordon's lieutenants in the...
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Deir El-gebrawi; V.2: the Southern Cliff, the Tombs of Ibi and Others.
by Naguib Kanawati Publisher Comments Following the publication of the Northern Cliff of Deir el-Gebrawi, the Australian Centre for Egyptology has undertaken a season of re-recording the tomb of Ibi and other surrounding smaller tombs on the Southern Cliff. Originally recorded by Davies in...
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African Political Systems
by M Fortes Publisher Comments This classic work, which involved the collaboration of leading figures in the field of social anthropology, was the first to undertake the comparative study of African politica systems, as an example of the wider field of study of political institutions...
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Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation
by Robert Stock Book News Annotation An especially well written introductory text examining the sociocultural, political, and economic processes that help to explain patterns of human use, resources, and the dynamics of change in Africa's geography. Excellent b&w photos, maps, and charts....
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Two Evenings in Saramaka
by Richard Price Publisher Comments "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense...
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Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries; V.1: Sub-saharan Africa.
by Reginald Appleyard Book News Annotation Contains results of research in Sub-Saharan Africa during a joint project of the United Nations Population Fund and the International Organization for Migration. Topics include poverty and ethnicity, agricultural migration in the Senegal River Valley,...
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In Search of Salt; Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960.
by Frederick Quinn Book News Annotation Quinn, a US diplomat posted to Cameroon for many years, describes the society of the Beti in Central Cameroon and the changes it experienced primarily during the first half of the 20th century. He looks at four periods: the 1880s when the Beti were...
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History of Africa 3RD Edition
by Jd Fage Book News Annotation Fage adds to his classic of African studies first published in 1978 a postscript summarizing events since the second edition in 1988. He describes the prehistory and early history of African society and kingdoms, the impact of Islam and European...
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Freedom by a hair's breadth :Tsimihety in Madagascar
by Peter J Wilson Publisher Comments How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom...
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Egypt and Austria III: The Danube Monarchy and the Orient/Ypten Und Sterreich III: Die Donaumonarchie Und Der Orient
by Johanna Holaubek Et Al Synopsis This volume contains papers dealing with many topics, including the presence of Europeans in Egypt, but also of Egyptians and people of Middle Eastern origin in Central and Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to scholarly travel and expeditions....
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