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Messier, Ronald A; Miller, James A
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 85,30 €
ISBN 978-0-292-76665-5
EAN 9780292766655
Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250 years, ...
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Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of regionalization, expanding their operations across ...
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Gerard, Emmanuel; Kuklick, Bruce
Death in the Congo
Murdering Patrice Lumumba
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72527-0
EAN 9780674725270
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people-black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime.Death in the Congo is a gripping ...
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- Vintage USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-307-94665-2
EAN 9780307946652
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- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-074-7
EAN 9781784530747
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. Through exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the conflict and provides the first in-depth account of the violence and unrest.He ...
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- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-822-9
EAN 9781780768229
On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the ...
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Ilibagiza, Immaculee; Erwin, Steve
Left to Tell
One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide
- Hay House UK Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78180-295-3
EAN 9781781802953
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family that she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into bloody holocaust. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84832-658-3
EAN 9781848326583
Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered them, overthrew African kingdoms and resisted Dutch, Omani and Ottoman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 61,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7983-0343-9
EAN 9780798303439
When the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings erupted in Africa, in the first two months of the year 2011, with the chant, 'the people want to bring down the regime', there was hope all over the continent that these rebellions were part of a wider African Awakening. President Ben Ali of Tunisia was forced to step ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18821-9
EAN 9780300188219
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others ...
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Explorers of the Nile
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24976-3
EAN 9780571249763
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed ...
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WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson'.'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to The Times was ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12125-3
EAN 9780349121253
Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when he became a soldier and went into battle with the rebel army in Sudan's bloody civil war. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanuel trekked his way to a refugee camp in Ethiopia where he became one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. After nearly five years ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103118-7
EAN 9780141031187
There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists.At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being generous enough? Or is the problem ...
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- Transworld, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77548-9
EAN 9780552775489
Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, an epic novel about slavery through the life of one brave woman, now a forthcoming 6-part TV miniseries starring Cuba J Gooding Jr,Louis Gossett and Aunjaune Ellis.Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-659-0
EAN 9781848876590
On 24 June 1995, at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Springboks faced the All Blacks in the final of the Rugby World Cup. When South Africa's new President, Nelson Mandela, stepped on to the field wearing the Springbok captain's jersey, something changed in South Africa. This book tells the extraordinary and moving story of a ...
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The compelling autobiography of Wangari Maathai, Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In ...
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-59921-211-1
EAN 9781599212111
Previously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.
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The Emperor
Downfall of an Autocrat
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118803-4
EAN 9780141188034
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to ...
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- Ohio University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-89680-248-3
EAN 9780896802483
The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks ...
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