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History: specific events & topics
hardcover. From the stand point that democracies existed in traditional Africa where the military's role was clearly defined, the author argues that the African military is a deviant institution, and delves into ways to prevent military coups. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBTV; JPHV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 373.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Praeger Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780275963255
- ISBN
- 9780275963255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75€ 59.16
€ 64.75
€ 59.16
paperback. Allan D. Austin explores via portraits, documents, maps and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the American slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Num Pages: 216 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415912709
- ISBN
- 9780415912709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.39
€ 61.39
Hardcover. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. 330 pages, 23, 23 black and white. A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JKSW1. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 32. Weight: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463805
- ISBN
- 9781580463805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.44
€ 144.44
Hardback. Papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the African Print Cultures Network, held July 2013 at the University of Birmingham, England. Editor(s): Peterson, Derek R.; Hunter, Emma; Newell, Stephanie. Series: African Perspectives. Num Pages: 440 pages, 39 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTB; KNTJ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472073177
- ISBN
- 9780472073177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.38
€ 127.38
Paperback. Papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the African Print Cultures Network, held July 2013 at the University of Birmingham, England. Editor(s): Peterson, Derek R.; Hunter, Emma; Newell, Stephanie. Series: African Perspectives. Num Pages: 440 pages, 39 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTB; KNTJ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472053179
- ISBN
- 9780472053179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.01
€ 48.01
Paperback. From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. In this book, the author explores how football was influenced by colonialism, the growth of cities, independence, and global capitalism. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849040389
- ISBN
- 9781849040389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.09
€ 26.99
€ 25.09
Paperback. Examines and reassesses the use of oral resources in writing African history. Editor(s): White, Luise; Miescher, Stephan; Cohen, David. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1H; HBA; HBJH; HBTD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214683
- ISBN
- 9780253214683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.95
€ 35.95
Paperback. Series: African World Histories. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199915392
- ISBN
- 9780199915392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.65
€ 51.65
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252063213
- ISBN
- 9780252063213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Paperback. Expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Editor(s): Bryant, Sherwin K.; O'Toole, Rachel Sarah; Vinson, Ben, III. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTS; JFC; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252080012
- ISBN
- 9780252080012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.67
€ 40.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 16 b&w illus., 3 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; HBJH; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780253022301
- ISBN
- 9780253022301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.92
€ 46.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 16 b&w illus., 3 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; HBJH; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253022226
- ISBN
- 9780253022226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.02
€ 118.02
Hardback. Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363118
- ISBN
- 9780822363118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.39
€ 184.39
Paperback. Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363231
- ISBN
- 9780822363231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.89
€ 46.89
Paperback. When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they confronted a terrible challenge, inside the camp were people, who would die unless they received immediate medical attention. This is the story of the men and women who faced that challenge to save the inmates of Belsen. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 pp b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844135400
- ISBN
- 9781844135400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.47
€ 21.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South. Editor(s): Baker, Bruce E.; Kelly, Brian. Series: New Perspectives on the History of the South. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813060972
- ISBN
- 9780813060972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.36
€ 34.36
Paperback. As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. Through personal reflections and explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience, the author talks about the legacy of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099464723
- ISBN
- 9780099464723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.63
€ 20.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. A work of genuine social history, this book leads the reader, as concretely as possible, into the real villages and cities of European society. It begins with a description of family and community structure, social conflict, and religious beliefs. Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253211804
- ISBN
- 9780253211804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.70
€ 29.70
Paperback. Untangling the ongoing consequences of Guatemala's 1954 coup d'etat Editor(s): Smith, Timothy J.; Adams, Abigail E. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black and white photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077845
- ISBN
- 9780252077845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.89
€ 32.89
Hardback. Untangling the ongoing consequences of Guatemala's 1954 coup d'etat Editor(s): Smith, Timothy J.; Adams, Abigail E. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black and white photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252035869
- ISBN
- 9780252035869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.34
€ 130.34
Paperback. Explains why Russia does not dissolve into independent countries Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBT; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472088317
- ISBN
- 9780472088317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.43
€ 44.43
Hardback. Through careful examination of the lives of East Germans in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book details how a very sudden and very radical system change alters the interweaving of individual agency with institutions and social structures in shaping life-course trajectories. Editor(s): Diewald, Martin; Goedicke, Anne; Mayer, Karl Ulrich. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804752084
- ISBN
- 9780804752084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.84
€ 92.84
Hardcover. War in the Balkans in the 1990s displaced millions, including nearly 20,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina to the American city of St Louis. This text looks at the impact of the war and the reality of "ethnic cleansing" in the life of one extended Bosnian family in St Louis. Num Pages: 156 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1KBBNU; 3JJPR; HBTZ; JFFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Missouri History Museum Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781883982362
- ISBN
- 9781883982362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.97
€ 25.99
€ 24.97
Paperback. Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9, 4 black & white halftones, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801892578
- ISBN
- 9780801892578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.75
€ 43.75