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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian  Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the...
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When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Robert H Bates Publisher Comments In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. In so...
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States and Power in Africa : Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey Herbst Publisher Comments Herbst's arguments will excite controversy among students of African history and politics, who have built up an extensive story about European transformations of African politics. His analysis raises doubts about how deeply those transformations went...
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Ibn Battuta in Black Africa
by Ibn Battuta Book News Annotation For 29 years, Tangier native Battuta (1304-77) criss-crossed the eastern hemisphere and recorded his experiences, especially the people he met. King (U. of California-Santa Cruz) and Hamdun (U. of Nairobi) translate excerpts from his Arabic Rihla that...
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild 
Publisher Comments From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop...
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent From 1876 to 1912
by Thomas Pakenham Publisher Comments <CENTER><P><b>White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent <br>from 1876 to 1912</b></P></CENTER>...
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Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain
by Mitsuaki Iwago Publisher Comments Spending 18 months on the Serengeti Plain of eastern Africa, Iwago captures in nearly 300 extraordinary full-color images a world of calm beauty and quick violence, where the daily drama of life and death for over two million animals is played against a...
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
by Charla Hunter Gault Publisher Comments For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault here offers a fresh and surprisingly optimistic assessment of...
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Africa Unchained : Blueprint for Africa's Future (Cloth) (05 Edition)
by George B.n. Ayittey Publisher Comments In "Africa Unchained", George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous institutions which have been castigated by African...
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Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850
by David Northrup Publisher Comments What did Africans think of the first Europeans they saw? Why did some Africans seek political and religious alliances with Europeans? How successful were African traders in acquiring what they wanted from Europeans in the new Atlantic trade? Africa's...
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Living Apart
by Ian Berry Publisher Comments In the post-war period the South African government gradually developed a policy that was meant to retain for ever the rights and privileges of a white minority: apartheid. Racial prejudices and tensions may create difficulties in many societies, but...
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen Publisher Comments “This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully armed and ready to go to war with a virus...
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Recreating Africa : Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-portuguese World, (03 Edition)
by James H. Sweet Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index....
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Nile
by Martha Holmes Publisher Comments "Nile" reveals the true story of this great river. Beginning with an intriguing exploration of the world of ancient Egypt, we take a modern journey upstream as the river splits into its two main arms, the White Nile and Blue Nile. Along the way, we...
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Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
by Jonny Steinberg Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent...
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Sins of the Fathers: The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1441-1807
by James Pope Hennessy Publisher Comments The author explores the terrible history of the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to its gradual dissolution....
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Postcolonial Subjectivities (Postcolonial Encounters)
by Richard P. Werbner Publisher Comments This book crosses the frontier of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront at the turn of the 21st century. The essays recognize postcolonies troubled by state decline and increasing exploitation, dispossession and...
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The End of Slavery in Africa
by Suzanne Miers Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive assessment of the end of slavery in Africa. Editors Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts, with the distinguished contributors to the volume, establish an agenda for the social history of the early colonial period—hen...
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Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa (Ohio Ris Global)
by William G Moseley Publisher Comments The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly...
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The Book of the Pharaohs
by Pascal And Jean Yoyotte. Trans. By David Lorton Vernus Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233)....
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