Travel and Geography Books

2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an un...

In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century re...

How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie.The ultimate symbol of indepe...

In the history books, the Italo-Ethiopian War will doubtless be entered as one of the strangest wars ever waged. History will record the spectacle ...

Following the 1952 reorganization of the Portuguese Air Force from the army and naval air arms, Portugal now had an entity dedicated solely to avia...

The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-Spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre is a chronological narrative of the war that lasted f...

An investigation is made here of a marking and counting system used in Ancient Egypt similar to the one existing in Mesopotamia during the fourth m...

Agricultural Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cases and Comments introduces the subject of agricultural law and economics to researchers, practitioners, ...

In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away...

This book analyzes the social, cultural, and historical background of modern Libya from the early nineteenth century through the end of the armed a...

This catalog was created on the occasion of an exhibition of primitive Oceanic, African, and American art from the Museum of Primitive Art.

The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dict...

A story of the miners who profoundly shaped the process of production, and the rhythms and culture of work and resistance at the Enugu colliery in ...

Initially, when the government in Paris responded with force to the November 1, 1954 insurrection of Algerian nationalists, French public opinion o...

Beneath the splendor and sophistication of the monarchies of continental Europe are tales of scandal, mystery, and skullduggery. A Dark History: Th...

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile―or abjuration―flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile,...

From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environm...

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of th...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in hi...

Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident. On...

The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now liveA...

The global prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders is accelerating. Numbers of children affected by an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Uni...