Africa History

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. "...chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, the profiles provide the most intimate look yet at the social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa." Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt and red title block on spine. 422 pages, b&w map. Light bump to top corner otherwise very good, clean copy. "An analysis That carries an indictment of the whole colonial system."

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages. This provocative study touches all the bases, probing the important cases of U.S. involvement in Africa (the Congo, Angola, South Africa), laying out U.S. interests in Africa's minerals and strategic outposts, and depicting the concern of American blacks with Africa since the nineteenth century. Riding his theses rather hard, Jackson argues strongly against an ineluctable U.S. tendency to react in cold-war terms to African crises. Name on front fly lesf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping, creases, wear to top/bottom spine. Internally clean and tight. Fold out maps.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 604 pages, 3 fold-out color maps in rear of book. Red coth covers, hinges tender, spine with fading. An account of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa precedes an historical survey of the non-European inhabitants and the arrival and spread of the European settlers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 547 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white Illustrations and fold-out map in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 540 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white illustrations and 2 fold-out maps in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blind stamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering on spine. 479 pages with mild foxing to a few pages. Very good plus, no markings.

Hardcover. Nairobi, The English Press,, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black title on front, 117 pages + postscript. The Mau Mau, the black challenge to white supremacy and the need for British rule to remain in Kenya. Name on front fly leaf, light marking to margins on some pages.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation.This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ever to have been published. The early photographers captured the beauty and dangerous allure of life on this spectacular frontier: the ceremonies and traditional attire of the native people, the fantastic machinery used in construction of the Uganda Railway, the gradual development of trade on the coast and in the country's interior, the hardships of the East African Campaign during World War I, and the pioneering spirit of early European settlers and farmers. Many of the most famous names and places connected with Africa appear in these pages, including Karen Blixen's farm and Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt on safari.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, several other full page engraved plates as well as text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, faint water stain to top corners of some pages, not affecting text or images. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.

Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Describes the causes and background of the Zulu War, recounts the experiences of British and Zulu survivors, and looks at the strategies and tactics of the war. Clean copy.

London, John Murray, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 229 pages illustrated in b&w by Victor Ambrus. The early (1914-34) and very readable Kenya memoirs of an administration official. Seaton presents his own particular vision of East Africa as it was from 1913 to 1926, the unsophisticated Africa with its peoples and wild life, before the golden age came to an end. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket, 214 pages. "A journey into the heart of primitive Africa, yesterday and today" based on the author's research and his first-hand observations. Wellard describes living among the Dawadans, a small isolated tribe,who still live in a state of pre-history and to whom the wheel is unknown. He also examines the art of prehistoric Africa and in particular the rock art of the Acacus Mountains. The third section deals with the Garamantes, an empire that flourished for more than a thousand years,until they were conquered by Arab invaders in the 17th century. Illustrated with 24 photographs and five maps. Bibliographical notes, index. Clean.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Carolina Academic Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has some fading to spine and edges. 443 pages, several maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and recorded the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of WWII. In 1949, Life sent her to South Africa to take photographs in a country that was becoming racially polarized by white minority rule. Life published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White's photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now. Here, these stunning photographs collected by Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern offer an unparalleled visual record of white domination in South Africa during the early days of apartheid. In addition to these powerful and historically significant photographs, Lichtenstein and Halpern include two essays that explore Bourke-White's artistic and political formation and provide background material about the cultural, political, and economic circumstances that produced the rise and triumph of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. This richly illustrated book brings to light a large body of photography from a major American photographer and offers a compelling history of a reprehensible system of racial conflict and social control that Bourke-White took such pains to document.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, now faded. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. Livingstone also gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. Frontispiece portrait, 732 pages, [4]pp ads, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith at the rear, 1 double page wood engraving, 1 folding diagram, many wood engraved text illustrations. Fair condition only with worn, rubbed covers, cloth split along spine edges. Interior pages clean with tight binding.

Hardcover. Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth, black lettering on spine. 147 pages, tables, maps, charts, photographs: author spent most of his life in Portuguese East Africa and this is both a history and an authoritative study of the economic and political situation circa early 1960s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. MI, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial binding, 128 pages, 47 maps, 60 b&w illustrations. Mombasa is the largest and most important port on the East African coast. A brief history of it's European colonizers is followed by a study of the port city and how it empowered the economy in the 1960s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames And Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages, 91 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt ship stamped on cover in upper left-hand corner, gilt title on spine. 338 pages with 13 full page illustrations, 7 text illustrations, 4 text maps & 7 attractive color maps, some folding. Ex-library with bookplate on front fly leaf, lettered number on spine, otherwise a tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nelson. Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 298 pages. Name on front fly, also the next blank page. Otherwise clean copy.