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Modern African Wars (1)
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95The Rhodesian War of 1965–80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on 11 November 1965 the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced his country’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. That act sparked a series... more...
Modern African Wars (2)
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states whose... more...
Speaking Truth to Power
Pambazuka Press 2010; US$ 19.99The untimely death of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in 2009 on African Liberation Day stunned the Pan-African world. This lively selection of his weekly Pan-African Postcards demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith he was and his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism and offers a legacy of political, social, and cultural thought from his determination... more...
La Verite aux puissants
Pambazuka Press 2011; US$ 19.99The untimely death of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in 2009 on African Liberation Day stunned the Pan-African world. This lively selection of his weekly Pan-African Postcards demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith he was and his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism and offers a legacy of political, social, and cultural thought from his determination... more...
Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00In this twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of the United States' energy imports and the world's natural resources. It has also become the epicenter of the world's deadly health epidemic, HIV/AIDS, and one of the battlegrounds in the fight against terrorism. With Nigeria and South Africa leading the continent, Africa... more...
Apostles of Modernity
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 62.50This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century. more...
The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Barbary Captive
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 24.00First published in 1816, Robert Adamss story is here examined in its historical context. more...
Forgotten Voices
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95In 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...
Tunisia
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95This book gives a concise yet comprehensive overview of Tunisia?s political and economic development from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Written specifically for a non-specialist audience, the book examines the factors that make Tunisia one of the Arab world?s most stable and prosperous countries and one of its hardiest authoritarian orders.?The... more...
Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers,... more...









