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  • A History of Madagascar

    by Mervyn Brown ...
    Madagascar, the 4th largest island in the world, is a unique blend of Asian and African culture, well known as the home of some of the world’s most unusual and most endangered flora and fauna, from lemurs to giant tortoises. Although so close to the east coast of Africa, where traces of human existence go back hundreds of thousands of years, Madagascar was uninhabited until about 2,000 years ago ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Conflict and Harmony in Education in Tropical Africa

    Edited by Godfrey N. Brown, Mervyn Hiskett ...
    Series series Studies on Modern Asia and Africa
    Originally published in 1975, this book was something of a pioneering study. It examines the three main traditions of African educational development – indigenous, Islamic and ‘Western’ – and the resulting harmonies and conflicts that arise from these traditions. Its contributors are all specialists writing about their own particular area of interest covering many countries of tropical Africa. ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • A History of Modern Uganda

    by Richard J. Reid ...
    This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • South Sudan: the Case for Independence & Learning from Mistakes

    by LB Lokosang ...
    This work started some few years ago, motivated by internet discussions involving a group of South Sudanese in the Diaspora. A question was floated by the author: "Why must South Sudan become an independent state?" a number of forum discussants contributed with answers to this key question. The contributions were substantial and provided the mould of this book. I therefore want to salute the ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Honour'

    Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women

    Edited by Lynn Welchman, Sara Hossain ...
    This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Bangladesh, My Bangladesh

    by Sheik Mujibur Rahman ...
    This book presents, in Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s own words, an unusual view of the events and circumstances leading up to the Proclamation of Independence by Bangladesh.  Thirty two speeches and statements made by the Sheikh between October 28, 1970 and March 26, 1971 tell us a story which has been heard in bits and pieces before but never with the continuity and intensity that this volume achieves ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Hausa of Nigeria

    by Frank A. Salamone ...
    The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview sites. It is also the result of discussions with colleagues, especially Salamone's mentor, Charles ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • The Baha'i Faith

    A Short History

    by Peter Smith ...
    This authoritative account traces the BahNB'! Faith from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Iran to the spiritual and social concerns of the present. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Define and Rule

    Native as Political Identity

    by Mahmood Mamdani ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • The Alevis in Turkey

    The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition

    by David Shankland ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly high profile for those interested in the diverse cultures of contemporary Turkey, and in the role of Islam in the modern world. As a heterodox Islamic group, the Alevis have no established doctrine. This book reveals that as the Alevi move from rural ... Read more

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