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  • The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real.

    Translated with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham.

    par Christopher Columbus., Clements R. Markham ...
    Collections series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London.This edition includes illustrations.This is the Journal of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. He left Spain on the evening of 3 August 1492, and returned on March 15 1493. This is a detailed account of the voyage, and the discovery of the New World. The Journal was later translated into English by Sir ... En savoir plus

    $9.93 CAD

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  • Mukiwa

    A White Boy in Africa

    par Peter Godwin ...
    Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

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  • The White Africans

    From Colonisation To Liberation

    par Gerald L'Ange ...
    The negotiated transfer of power in apartheid South Africa was the last act in the dismantling of white supremacy on the African continent. While opening a new era for the whites in Africa, it closed an earlier one that contains some of the most colourful episodes in world history. In The White Africans, South African journalist and writer Gerald L'Ange gives a warts-and-all account of the ... En savoir plus

    $9.49 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Castro

    par Sebastian Balfour ...
    Collections series Profiles In Power
    The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international stage and none survived as head of state for as long. Over almost 50 years, he was one of the most controversial political figures in the world, and his legacy has yet to be fully evaluated. Some of ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Present Imperfect

    Contemporary South African Writing

    par Andrew van der Vlies ...
    Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that ... En savoir plus

    $74.39 CAD

  • Steve Biko

    par Lindy Wilson ...
    Collections series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear perpetuated by the apartheid regime. He paid the highest price with his life. The brutal ... En savoir plus

    $18.69 CAD

  • A Very Different Land

    Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya

    par Hilary Sunman ...
    In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her father's work with her own experience as a development economist to discuss colonial policy. Focusing on themes such as All the the 'White Highlands', race, colonial leadership, and the rise ... En savoir plus

    $78.89 CAD

  • A Predictable Tragedy

    Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe

    par Daniel Compagnon ...
    When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Precolonial State in West Africa

    Building Power in Dahomey

    par J. Cameron Monroe ...
    This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an ... En savoir plus

    $122.39 CAD

  • Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development

    Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007

    par Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ...
    Collections Livre 20 - New African Histories
    Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world’s fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Ending Apartheid

    par Jack Spence, David Welsh ...
    Collections series Turning Points
    The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the rise and decline of apartheid ideology in South Africa, the internal insurrection and increased ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria

    Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty

    par Hannah Hoechner ...
    Collections Livre 54 - The International African Library
    In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur'anic students have garnered a reputation of resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD