A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa$18.00ISBN: 9780300251630Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order NowPublished: Yale University Press - February 4th, 2020A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.$29.95ISBN: 9781478000198Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Duke University Press - December 13th, 2019In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
$16.99ISBN: 9781250256454Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order NowPublished: St. Martin's Essentials - January 28th, 2020The Kebra Nagast is a pivotal text in the Rastafarian tradition. Written in Ethiopia during the 14th century, this sacred tale tells the story of the relationship between the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, as well as their son Menyelek who famously brought the Arc of the Covenant to Ethiopia.
$29.95ISBN: 9781912866885Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Helion & Company - November 7th, 2019$24.95ISBN: 9781473881792Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Pen & Sword Military - November 27th, 2019The year 1942 began badly for the Allies. German U-boats were indiscriminately sinking merchant shipping off America's east coast and in the Caribbean. Allied fortunes were no better in the Far East under the relentless Japanese advance.
$30.95ISBN: 9781775822783Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: University Of Cape Town Press - January 3rd, 2020Between 11 and 16 August 2012, the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana, in South Africa’s North West Province, witnessed a tragedy in which 34 miners were killed, more than 70 injured, and approximately 250 people arrested.$32.99ISBN: 9781108457378Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Cambridge University Press - September 19th, 2019After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after independence. Travelling along this road, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare gathers together stories of conflict and compromise on an African nuclear frontier.
$14.95ISBN: 9781612007250Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Casemate - November 13th, 2019A concise introduction to Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic period through to the Iron Age, covering everything from battle tactics to weaponry and battle injuries.
$29.95ISBN: 9781912866861Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Helion & Company - November 7th, 2019Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot.
$29.95ISBN: 9781912866311Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Helion & Company - October 16th, 2019On June 25, 1950, as he was flying back to Washington D.C. to deal with the outbreak of war in Korea, US President Harry Truman thought, "In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak. I recalled some earlier instances: Manchuria, Ethiopia, Austria.
$29.95ISBN: 9781912866830Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Helion & Company - October 16th, 2019Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at the behest of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring flying-col
