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  • Pirate Killers

    The Royal Navy and the African Pirates

    One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had done for centuries and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Malice

    The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

    A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana’s independence, his determined ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

    And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

    by Joshua Hammer ...
    ****New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.**In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sovereignty without Power

    Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Twelve Desperate Miles

    The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa

    by Tim Brady ...
    The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the trunk of a Chevy, were drafted into service in WWII -- and heroically succeeded in setting the stage for Patton's epic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm

    by Monte Reel ...
    In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab into the biggest scientific debate of the time: Darwin's theory of evolution. Quickly, Du Chaillu's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The World's Most Dangerous Place

    Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia

    Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West’s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly “streaming” out of central Asia toward Somalia and the surrounding region.Somalia, now home to some of the world’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Arabs

    A History

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Expectations of Modernity

    Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

    Series Book 57 - Perspectives on Southern Africa
    Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The South Africa Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Series series The World Readers
    The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Street Archives and City Life

    Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

    by Emily Callaci ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Native Sons

    West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Tears of the Desert

    A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

    “[Halima Bashir’s] mesmerizing tale of against-all-odds endurance is a piercing lament—and a clear-eyed call to action.”—Vogue“This memoir helps keep the Darfur tragedy open as a wound not yet healed.”—Elie Wiesel, author of NightBorn into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Left to Tell

    Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

    Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Long Walk to Freedom

    The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

    "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

    A New History of the Ancient Near East

    A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and others In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Affluence Without Abundance

    The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

    by James Suzman ...
    “Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROWWASHINGTON POST'S 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION IN 2017AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2017A vibrant portrait of the “origi... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under Construction

    Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia

    by Daniel Mains ...
    Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest growing economies, largely due to its investments in infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that they associate with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Darfur

    A 21st-Century Genocide, Third Edition

    Series series Crises in world politics
    Praise for the 2005 Edition:"A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis."-Foreign Affairs"Does the conflict in Darfur, however bloody, qualify as genocide? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cobalt Red

    How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

    The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • City of Thorns

    Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

    by Ben Rawlence ...
    **Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeNamed a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign AffairsLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a “nursery for terrorists”; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it’s their last ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shadows on the Grass

    Shadows on the Grass includes four stories that shed light on the author’s love for both the beauty and wilderness of Africa, and for the African people, their dignity and traditions. Written 30 years after she left Africa, Dinesen’s stories have a beautiful way of describing the world around her. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War

    The ongoing war and consequent famine in the Ethiopian province of Tigray are increasingly critical. International journalists are not being allowed to travel to the region, which is almost completely sealed off from the outside world. This is a deliberate strategy by the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments prosecuting the war: their aim is to crush the Tigrayans at almost any cost. This ... Read more

    $22.99 USD