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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

Political Science

Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution

Knudsen Are, Kerr Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849042499, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recovering from a bloody civil war in its search for political autonomy and stability....

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Africa

Songs and Secrets South Africa from Liberation to Governance

Gilder Barry

ISBN: HB: 9781849042376, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's de...

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Biography & Memoires

Africa

Algerian Memoirs

Alleg Henri

ISBN: HB: 9780857420305, Seagull Books, October 2012
442 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The personal history of journalist Henri Alleg is tied inextricably to the history of the French-Algerian Conflict. Best known for his book "The Question", a first-hand account of his torture by French troops during the Algerian war for independence,...

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Maghreb Since 1800 A Short History

Vikor Knut S.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042017, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Maghreb – the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent...

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South Sudan From Revolution to Independence

Arnold Matthew, LeRiche Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849041959, Hurst Publishers, July 2012
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, a primarily...

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History of Libya

Wright John

ISBN: PB: 9781849042277, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence of a 'new' Libya in 2011. After surveying the story of the central Sahara's...

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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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Afrikaners Biography of a People

Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9781849041485, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
698 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Afrikaners: Biography of A People", the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on – and critical of – the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author's own research and interviews conducted with lead...

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