Africa 48

Domination des Carthaginois et des Romains en Afrique (tome 26, 1841) L’Algérie par M. le baron Baude (tome 27, 1841) L’Afrique sous Saint Augustin (tome 31, 1842) 続きを見る

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and cul……続きを見る

The period between the 9th and the 19th centuries was a dark period in the history of West African Women. The effect of this dark period continues today, in part, in the form of persistent gender in……続きを見る

We generally think of Asia as the home of Martial Arts, but Egypt had the first organized Martial Arts training as far back as 2000 BC. Africa has unique Martial Art Styles that are practiced today.……続きを見る

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world’s largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African cult……続きを見る

This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative sig……続きを見る

Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim……続きを見る

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past……続きを見る

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual ans……続きを見る

This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions**.** The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by……続きを見る

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time ー from Africa to South America to Europe ー addressing t……続きを見る

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography ー the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition ……続きを見る

Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial har……続きを見る

Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Ci……続きを見る

How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term “Black Muslim” may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no c……続きを見る

Spanning a thousand years of history ー and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania ー Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of……続きを見る

In November 1965, Ian Smith’s white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking with Great Britain. With a European population of ……続きを見る

In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., Geor……続きを見る

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet ……続きを見る

The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation strug……続きを見る

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan r……続きを見る

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyda……続きを見る

The mosques of the Djebel Nafūsa, little known and under threat, personify the continuity of traditions and faith of the Ibadites, who have retained their grip over the centuries on this rugged land……続きを見る

Extrait : "Lorsque l'armée autrichienne menaçait les frontières du Piémont, l'Assemblé nationale, usant de son initiative, invita le Ministère à prendre une attitude résolue et l'autorisa, dans le c……続きを見る

An illuminating and provocative account of Germany's role as sanctuary for Algerian nationalists during their fight for independence from France between 1954 and 1962. The book explores key issues s……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il y a déjà trois ans que j'ai demandé et obtenu la disponibilité de mon grade de Ministre plénipotentiaire, à la suite de ma mission d'envoyé extraordinaire à Rome. Depuis 1849, je n'ai ……続きを見る

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting pu……続きを見る

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainabl……続きを見る

Do you know that an experience with rats can help you to correctly analyze the problems of society? Well, you should read this book, Bite and Blow, to learn about the experience with rats in Liberia……続きを見る

Most of us still know less about Africa's past and peoples than we do about the continent's wild animals. And what we do know is colored by romance - safaris and treks and camel caravans, Solomon's ……続きを見る