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Die am 6.Dezember 1912 gefundene Büste der Nofretete gehört zu den berühmtesten Skulpturen der Welt. Wer aber war die geheimnisvolle schöne Königin? Woher kam sie, und warum verschwand sie plötzlich……続きを見る

Ägypten ist seit dem Mittelalter ein kulturelles Zentrum des islamischen Orients. Johanna Pink erzählt anschaulich die Geschichte des Landes von der Spätantike und der islamischen Eroberung über die……続きを見る

Die islamistische Sekte Boko Haram, die 2014 durch die Entführung von über 200 christlichen Schülerinnen Schlagzeilen machte, kontrolliert in Nigeria und Kamerun ein riesiges „Kalifat“, dem bereits ……続きを見る

This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis ……続きを見る

Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue durée investigation of women and religion within a transatlantic context. Takin……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmenーoften the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower classーwho as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, w……続きを見る

African women’s history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. Africa is a p……続きを見る

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past. ‘The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.’ Daily Mail. ‘“Livingstone’s Tribe” is excellent…Taylor is an intelligent……続きを見る

Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stori……続きを見る

Poucas personalidades da história têm despertado tamanha fascinação quanto Nzinga Mbandi Ngola (1582-1663) ou Rainha Nzinga, soberana quilombola e heroína nacional de Angola. Em razão da resistência……続きを見る

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gy……続きを見る

n den Jahren vor dem ersten Weltkrieg waren große Teile Nord- und Westafrikas französische Kolonien. Dazu zählten Länder wie Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien aber auch Syrien. Die Aufnahmen aus diesem Bi……続きを見る

Avaliando a sucessão de agravos cometidos pelo colonialismo em África, seria possível alinhavar extenso prontuário de estratégias criadas para impor a hegemonia europeia aos povos do continente. Nes……続きを見る

Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates e……続きを見る

The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs……続きを見る

The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political instability have made the causes of failed states a……続きを見る

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of mediev……続きを見る

Few societies have faced the difficulties of identity building experienced by Rwanda. This book’s introduction reviews literature on the concepts of myth and trauma, and then introduces basic inform……続きを見る

When the explorer René Caillié returned to France from Africa in 1828, he published a sketch of the legendary city he had discovered - Timbuctoo. But neither that simple drawing nor his matter-of-fa……続きを見る

Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. ……続きを見る

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this co……続きを見る

Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculi……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure in Nigerian political history for more than forty years. Starting in 1936 as a protégé……続きを見る

While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated ru……続きを見る

Religiosity is one aspect without which Ethiopian society cannot be fully understood. This book aims to map out the terrain of the discourse in religion-social change nexus in Ethiopian using the no……続きを見る

At the height of the Cold War, Soviet ideologues, policymakers, diplomats, and military officers perceived the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the future reserve of socialism, holdin……続きを見る

Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical ……続きを見る

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importan……続きを見る

Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contributi……続きを見る

This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian childrenーone of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of ……続きを見る