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Sharpevilleby Tom Lodge
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 21.95On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black andwhite in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the... more...
Tripolitaniaby David J. Mattingly
Routledge 1995; US$ 165.00Drawing on recent excavation and field surveys, the author reinterprets many aspects of the settlement history of this marginal arid zone that was once made prosperous. more...
Algeria in Transitionby Ahmed Aghrout; Redha. M Bougherira; Professor John Keiger
Routledge 2004; US$ 200.00This collection addresses major issues such as political reforms and stability, external relations and social conditions to integration into the world economy. more...
The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte 1777-1814by Asma Moalla
Routledge 2003; US$ 190.00This study of the Tunisian army and government stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. more...
The Caliph's Houseby Tahir Shah
Bantam Books 2006; US$ 11.99In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun , acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems…. Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he and his wife, Rachana, had, Tahir packed up his growing family and bought Dar Khalifa, a crumbling ruin of a mansion by the sea in Casablanca... more...
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954 - 62by Martin S. Alexander; Martin Evans; J.F.V. Keiger
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 130.00This volume, bringing together leading experts in the field, focuses on the role of the French army in the Algerian War. It shows that the war was just as much about conflicts of ideas, beliefs and loyalties as it was about simple military operations. more...
The Fall of Apartheidby Robert Harvey
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 39.00This title tells the story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in Sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed. It reveals the full story of the secret meetings between Africans and Afrikaners in Britain. more...
Berber Culture on the World Stageby Jane E. Goodman
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 19.15"[S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music scholars to specialists on North Africa.... a superb book, clearly written, analytically incisive, about very important issues that have not been described elsewhere." -- John Bowen, Washington University In this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the colonial archives, identifying the products, performances, and media through which Berber identity has developed. In the 1990s, with a major Islamist insurgency underway in Algeria,... more...
Forgotten Voicesby
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 43.95In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. more...
Moroccoby Marvine Howe
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 20.00Presents a review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses issues and problems - equal rights for women and correction of economic and social disparities - and asks the question: can this ancient Muslim kingdom embrace western democracy in an era of divisions between the Islamic world and the West? more...