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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-032-2
EAN 9781800240322
The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more than two million people. On 11 November 1918, the First World War came to an end in Europe. But, in Northern Rhodesia, the bloodshed persisted for another two weeks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-582-3
EAN 9781631495823
In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-118-8
EAN 9781788731188
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-935-0
EAN 9781786079350
'A fascinating and timely book' - William BoydIn 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just six weeks later, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 404 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-925984-22-4
EAN 9781925984224
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 281 páginas
PVP: 71,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4408-2884-3
EAN 9781440828843
This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, and convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term. After four decades of tyrannical, erratic-and pioneering-changes fueled by oil wealth, Muammar Gaddafi's government fell in 2011, and Libya embarked on a new ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197766-9
EAN 9780141977669
Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and the Cundill History Prize'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking history that will transform our view of West AfricaBy the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8214-2353-0
EAN 9780821423530
In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals. Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78633-156-4
EAN 9781786331564
Each life has the power to change the world Ndaba Mandela was raised by his grandfather, the man known to the world as Nelson Mandela. Here Ndaba offers a rare and personal insight into the man behind the myth, sharing with us his memories - charming, intimate and sometimes surprising - to illuminate Mandela's much-loved ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17951-5
EAN 9780231179515
The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country's first-ever democratically elected ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8220-5
EAN 9781509882205
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara KingsolverIn the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 42,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00317-6
EAN 9780241003176
A groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West AfricaBy the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and Islamic world since around 1000, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18126-4
EAN 9780691181264
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-880657-8
EAN 9780198806578
Ian Taylor explores contemporary African politics in all its diversity, revealing how state and society actually functions beyond the formal institutional facade. He examines why questions of underdevelopment, outside exploitation, misrule, and weak state structures are characteristic of so many Sub-Saharan states in particular.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 106,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84701-180-0
EAN 9781847011800
The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-117-7
EAN 9781631491177
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812665-0
EAN 9780008126650
An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Books of the Year A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... written with exceptional delicacy and restraint' TLS The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,60 €
ISBN 978-0-525-57357-9
EAN 9780525573579
A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader's wisdom into 15 vital life lessonsWe long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber ated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-063-0
EAN 9781786070630
If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?Decades after the colonial powers withdrew from Africa, the continent is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-593-5
EAN 9781612005935
The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi- the `Expected One' - and travelled through Sudan, gathering support for his jihad. Initially, the Egyptian-Ottoman authorities ...
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