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Africa

History of South Africa

Thompson Leonard, Berat Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300189353, Yale University Press, February 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm

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...

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Africa

Political Science

Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa

Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

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Africa

Of Africa

Soyinka Wole

ISBN: PB: 9780300198331, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing...

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Africa

General

Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

Sluyter Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...

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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Africa

Ethnic Power Mobilized Can South Africa Change?

Adam Heribert, Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9780300184051, Yale University Press, November 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee critically examine the applicability of such concepts as colo...

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Africa

Islam

Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

Peterson Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...

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Africa

Credit Between Cultures Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

MacDonald Shipton Parker

ISBN: PB: 9780300181289, Yale University Press, July 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of persepectives-philosophical, political, and religious-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa.

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