For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism – the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scen...

For sale in CIS only! "Sri Lanka in the Modern Age" recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minor...

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But i...

For sale in CIS only! This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others h...

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations...