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Into Africaby Martin Dugard
Doubleday Publishing 2003; US$ 11.99With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great... more...
British Pro-Consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929by C. W. R. Long
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95The story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their principal opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the great events of the time - the rise of the WAFD party, the uprising of 1919, the murder of Sir Lee Stack and the Allenby ultimatum. more...
Theory, Change and Southern Africa's Futureby Prof Peter Vale; Larry A. Swatuk; Bertil Oden
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 165.00As dramatic changes unfold throughout the world, and the new millennium begins, many in South Africa have begun to ask 'what next'? The scale and pace of change have led to a feeling of powerlessness. How to cope with 'globalization', 'regionalization', a depleting ozone layer, new diseases, rampant militarization, let alone unseen structures of influence and oppression like race, class and gender? While there is no shortage of theoretical models on offer many feel that they are inadequate for the case of Southern Africa. In this book, scholars of both international relations and Southern Africa present a wide variety of thoughts on the future of the reign and the place of theory in helping us to understand the bewildering array of events characterizing... more...
Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisisby Jonathan Pearson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 116.00This work is a reappraisal of Sir Anthony Eden's conduct of foreign relations during the Suez crisis of 1956. It details the confusion and failed attempts at negotiation that eventually culminated in the reluctant gamble. more...
Nasser's Blessed Movementby Joel Gordon
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 120.00A critical analysis of a key period in the formation of modern Egypt, the early years of military rule following the coup of 1952. It explores Nasser's emergence as the leader of the military junta and his programme of economic reform, which made Egypt a leader among developing nations. more...
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africaby Alice Dinerman
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 196.00Investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. This analysis is suitable for students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics; and post-conflict societies. more...
Egypt's Culture Warsby Samia Mehrez
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This groundbreaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century. more...
Southern Africaby Jonathan Farley
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 29.95This major addition to The Making of the Contemporary World series surveys the contemporary history of the whole Southern Africa region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one succinct volume. more...
CultureShock! Egyptby Susan Wilson
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17CultureShock! Egypt is invaluable to anyone who wants to blend into life in the country whose existence revolves around the River Nile. Containing much insight about the Egyptian peoplethe class system, the importance of family, their sense of honourthis guide also provides useful information and advice for settling into your new home and getting along with the locals. For example, learn about their notion of space and eye contact, and how the men may perceive foreign women who smile at them. On the business front, be aware of the necessity of having business cards as well as how to handle uniquely Egyptian business meetings. CultureShock! Egypt is all you need to settle effortlessly into and enjoy your new life in the Land of the... more...
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1by Jean Comaroff; John L. Comaroff
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist more...









