Africa

Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa r...

Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspecti...

Building on the authoritative text of the first edition, Atlas of African-American History, Revised Edition chronicles the important cultural, hist...

To the surprise of many, George W. Bush pledged $10 billion to combat AIDS in developing nations. Noted specialist Susan Hunter tells the untold st...

Their lifestyle of hunting for sport and profit honed the Boers' skills of field-craft, horsemanship, and marksmanship, making them a formidable fo...

Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be fo...

In 1948, civil rights for black Americans stood higher on the national political agenda than at any time since Reconstruction. President Harry Trum...

For many people the epitome of the British soldier of the late Victorian period is the Redcoat who fought in southern Africa in the 1870s. This tit...

The period covered in this volume is one which begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European c...

A series that details the exploration, annexation, and development of the African continent by Europeans during 19th century colonization and its e...

In most accounts of warfare, civilians suffer cruelties and make sacrifices silently and anonymously. This volume details the dismal impact war ha...

Beginning about 1200 CE, the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires spread their sequential influence across the western horn of Africa. This title discu...

A series that details the exploration, annexation, and development of the African continent by Europeans during 19th century colonization and its e...

Since 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a milita...

Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism bro...

When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was forced to cope with a varied and adaptable Algeria...

In South Africa at War, the first carefully documented survey and analysis of the policies and actions of the government of South Africa under P.W....

At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brut...

This book, by a lifelong authority on the Congo, makes sense of the world's least reported and least understood major war. Since 1996 successive wa...

Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by...

Alternately identified with either the countries of the Mediterranean, those of the Middle East, or other African territories, the nations of north...

In 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsi—some three-quarters of their population—while UN peacekeepers were withdra...

There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and hi...