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Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 196.00This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Examining the government?s attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambique?s traumatic past with a view to negotiating the present, Alice Dinerman stresses the path-dependence of... more...
Pillars of the Nation
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children—the pillars of tomorrow’s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem—Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their... more...
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung
University of California Press 2010; US$ 28.95Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known ?Bushmen? of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how these hunter-gatherers maintain their notably good health... more...
Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East
Princeton University Press 1992; US$ 45.00In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General... more...
David Livingstone
Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 140.00David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely to save souls and counter the slave trade? Or were they the first steps... more...
A Tidy Little War
The History Press 2011; US$ 36.44In 1882, the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. In 'A Tidy Little War', William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as 'tidy' as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished... more...
The Campaign of 1882 in Egypt
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 11.99Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Office, and originally published in 1887, this book gives a detailed account of the 1882 Egyptian campaign, which was a rapid affair, commencing with the bombardment and subsequent occupation of Alexandria in July; the near defeat of the British advance force by the Egyptians at Kassassin, and terminating... more...
Cold War in Southern Africa
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 42.95This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between white minority governments and black liberation movements... more...
The River Nile in the Age of the British
I.B.Tauris 2008; US$ 107.00The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualization,... more...
Britain, Nasser and the Balance of Power in the Middle East 1952-1967
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 190.00A multi-archival documentary history of British policy towards Nasser's Egypt under the Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home and Wilson governments. The primary focus of the study is an enquiry into the causes of the Anglo-Egyptian Cold War from 1952 to 1967. more...









