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A Last Chance in Kenyaby: Leys, Norman

A Last Chance in Kenya
by: Leys, Norman

Hardcover. London, The Hogarth Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover reddish cloth, 173 pages. A classic farsighted expose of the destructive effects of colonialism on the indigenous social fabric in Kenya. Remains of dust jacket laid in. There are some handwritten notes on first and last blank pages of book, otherwise clean.

Record # 380838

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A Narrative of the Negro: Missing Pages in American History : Revealing the Services of Negros in the Early Wars in the United States of America 1641-1815by: Wilkes,

A Narrative of the Negro: Missing Pages in American History : Revealing the Services of Negros in the Early Wars in the United States of America 1641-1815
by: Wilkes,

Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456814

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Adventures Of An African Slaver Being A True Account Of The Life Of Trader In Gold, Ivory & Slave On Coast Of Guinea; Own Story As Told In 1854 To Brantz Mayerby: Can

Adventures Of An African Slaver Being A True Account Of The Life Of Trader In Gold, Ivory & Slave On Coast Of Guinea; Own Story As Told In 1854 To Brantz Mayer
by: Can

Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni, 3rd pr, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 376 pages with illustrations, endpapers, and cover design by Miguel Covarrubias. Frontispiece loose, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 383767

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by: Thornton, John

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
by: Thornton, John

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Ed., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 380 pages, some light pencil underlining. Otherwise, bright, tight copy.

Record # 383465

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Africa's Redemption. The Salvation of Our Countryby: Freeman, Rev. F.

Africa's Redemption. The Salvation of Our Country
by: Freeman, Rev. F.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Originally published in 1852 this is an in depth study of the African people , both in Africa and in America. A great deal of material on slavery and the South, as well as early material on Liberia. Presented in a series of "conversations", this is an in-depth history of the African continent's peoples, the colonization of Africa, and subsequent African American slavery in the United States. Clean copy.

Record # 387847

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African Apprenticeship; An Autobiographical Journey In Southern Africa-1929 by: Perham, Margery

African Apprenticeship; An Autobiographical Journey In Southern Africa-1929
by: Perham, Margery

Hardcover. NY, Africana Publishing , 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited. Clean copy.

Record # 381152

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African Apprenticeship; An Autobiographical Journey In Southern Africa-1929 by: Perham, Margery

African Apprenticeship; An Autobiographical Journey In Southern Africa-1929
by: Perham, Margery

Hardcover. NY, Africana Publishing , 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited. Clean copy.

Record # 387746

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African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man by: Robert Ardrey

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man
by: Robert Ardrey

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Berdine Ardrey. Two foldout color charts of chronology of man's evolution. This book posits the hypothesis that man evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory ancestors who distinguished themselves from apes by the use of weapons. The work bears on questions of human origins, human nature, and human uniqueness. It has been widely read and continues to inspire significant controversy. The theories of Dart and Ardrey flew in the face of prevailing theories of human origins. At the time of the publication of African Genesis it was generally agreed that human beings evolved from Asian ancestors. Clean copy.

Record # 381183

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African Holocaust The Story of the Uganda Martyrsby: Faupel, J.F.

African Holocaust The Story of the Uganda Martyrs
by: Faupel, J.F.

Hardcover. NY, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 242 pages. The history of a Catholic mission to Uganda and how in 1886 its native converts were executed. No dustjacket. Front fly leaf clipped otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 374684

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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shameby: Bailey, Anne C.

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
by: Bailey, Anne C.

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages. For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called 'the Old Slave Coast'-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Clean copy.

Record # 381176

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An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania by: Haynes, D.E.L.

An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania
by: Haynes, D.E.L.

Softcover. Libya, Antiquities, Museums and Archives of Tripoli, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 text pages, three fold-out maps and many b/w plates in second half of the book.

Record # 382133

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An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914 by: Trumbull IV, George R.

An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914
by: Trumbull IV, George R.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa. Clean copy.

Record # 379160

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Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria by: Abi-Mershed, Osama

Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria
by: Abi-Mershed, Osama

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages. This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century.

Record # 378945

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Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto 1935-1976 by: Clive Glaser

Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto 1935-1976
by: Clive Glaser

Softcover. Oxford UK, James Currey, 1st pbk, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. This book explores the style and values of youth gangs in the Soweto area from the 1930s until the 1976 student-led uprising. It also tells the story of how the ANC, PAC, and Black Consciousness movement tried, and ultimately failed, to draw the volatile gangs into disciplined political activity. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Record # 381135

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Canadians on the Nile 1882-1898: Being the Adventures of the Voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and Other Exploitsby: MacLaren, Roy

Canadians on the Nile 1882-1898: Being the Adventures of the Voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and Other Exploits
by: MacLaren, Roy

Hardcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 184 pages, b&w illustrations. "Chosen for their unique skills, 400 Canadian voyageurs transported imperial forces up the Nile in a daring attempt to rescue "Chinese" Gordon, former governor-general of the Sudan, at Khartoum. A generation later, another Canadian, Sir Percy Girouard, built the desert railway enabling Kitchener to capture Khartoum in 1898." Clean copy.

Record # 381155

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Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Damis, John

Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Damis, John

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 196 pages. illustrated with several maps. A study of the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over tribal areas in the Sahara. Clean copy.

Record # 387565

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Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Studies in Military Styleby: Decalo, Samuel

Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Studies in Military Style
by: Decalo, Samuel

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages. Samuel Decalo presents detailed evidence from Dahomey, Togo, Congo/Brazzaville, and Uganda that African military coups are engineered by coteries of cliques composed of ambitious officers seeking self-advancement. He successfully refutes prevailing theories that military rule has fostered socioeconomic or political development or stability. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 387756

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Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economyby: Karl Polanyi

Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy
by: Karl Polanyi

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 204 pages. Dust jacket with partial fading, edgewear. Clean copy. The author's last work, a study of the Dahomean Kingdom, it's history and the part gold, colonialism and the slave trade played in it's fortunes. Scarce title.

Record # 378373

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Dateline Soweto: Travels With Black South African Reportersby: Finnegan, William

Dateline Soweto: Travels With Black South African Reporters
by: Finnegan, William

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 244 pages. The author spent 6 weeks with a courageous and devoted group of black reporters from the Johannesburg Star. This book focuses on the dilemma of these men and women caught between the militant black community, the police who harass them mercilessly, and their white editors who, fearful of the truth and wary of government disapproval, sometimes refuse to print the stories the reporters risked their lives to get. Clean copy.

Record # 374683

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Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affairby: Hart, Matthew

Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
by: Hart, Matthew

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Here is the true story of the strike that upset the diamond kings, and with it, a history of the world's most acclaimed diamonds, the process by which they are cut, smuggled and stolen, legends and superstitions, and of the shadowy hand of De Beers, for whom diamonds are forever.

Record # 454230

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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provincesby: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
by: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 490 pages, green cloth covers with black and gilt decoration. Two gravure frontispieces (of author and Henry Stanley), 21 full-page plates plus text illustrations. Folding map and facsimile of letter in envelope in rear. There is a small chunk of cloth gone from top of spine and some scuffing of cloth on spine and rear cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 406621

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Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860by: Martin Hall

Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860
by: Martin Hall

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 161 pages. In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement of the earliest farmers nearly two thousand years ago, Hall tracks the emergence of precolonial states such as Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Farmers, Kings, and Traders concludes with the devastating effects of colonialism. Through a close reading of the accounts of early travelers, colonialists, archaeologists, and historians, Hall places in context the often contradictory histories that have been written of this region. The result is an illuminating look at how ideas about the past have themselves changed over time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387825

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French North Africa: The Maghrib Between Two World Wars by: Berque, Jacques/ translated by Jean Stewart

French North Africa: The Maghrib Between Two World Wars
by: Berque, Jacques/ translated by Jean Stewart

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."

Record # 383763

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From the Congo to Soweto: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa since 1960by: Henry F. Jackson

From the Congo to Soweto: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa since 1960
by: Henry F. Jackson

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.

Record # 396914

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History of United States Navel Operations in World War II: Operations in North African Waters October 1942-June 1943: Vol. IIby: Morison, Samuel Eliot

History of United States Navel Operations in World War II: Operations in North African Waters October 1942-June 1943: Vol. II
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

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.

Record # 368178

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Impressions of South Africaby: Bryce, James

Impressions of South Africa
by: Bryce, James

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.

Record # 602829

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In Darkest Africaby: Stanley, Henry M.

In Darkest Africa
by: Stanley, Henry M.

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.

Record # 609937

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Journal of a Voyage From Boston to the West Coast of Africa; with a Full Description of the Manner of Trading with the Natives on the Coastby: J. A. Carnes

Journal of a Voyage From Boston to the West Coast of Africa; with a Full Description of the Manner of Trading with the Natives on the Coast
by: J. A. Carnes

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.

Record # 383760

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Kenya's Warning: The Challenge to White Supremacy in Our British Colonyby: Wilson, Christopher

Kenya's Warning: The Challenge to White Supremacy in Our British Colony
by: Wilson, Christopher

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.

Record # 380869

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Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940by: Pavitt, Nigel

Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940
by: Pavitt, Nigel

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.

Record # 351373

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Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630 by: Brooks, George E.

Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
by: Brooks, George E.

Softcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press , 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages. B&w illustrations. The period 1000 to 1630 was the most dynamic era in the history of the Mande- and West Atlantic-speaking peoples living between the bend of the Niger River and the Atlantic littoral. Many of the economic, social, and cultural patterns that evolved during those centuries remain of fundamental importance. This study delineates historical processes in the context of climate change, expanding trade networks, and widespread state-building. The long dry period, c. 1100-c. 1500, impelled Mande-speaking traders and blacksmiths to move progressively southward and westward, founding chapters of Mande "power associations" among host communities. Smiths and traders were followed by horse warriors who founded conquest states and imposed a tripartite social stratification. During the brief c. 1500-c. 1630 wet period, the southward movement of horse warriors was temporarily checked, but Europeans and Eur-Africans promoted an expanding trade in slaves that ravaged the peoples of western Africa during the centuries following. Landlords and Strangers provides a comprehensive synthesis of documentary and oral data and includes numerous extracts from contemporaneous sources to vividly portray the peoples and lands of western Africa.

Record # 385651

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Lifetimes Under Apartheidby: Gordimer, Nadine and David Goldblatt

Lifetimes Under Apartheid
by: Gordimer, Nadine and David Goldblatt

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.

Record # 362708

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Lifetimes Under Apartheidby: Gordimer, Nadine and David Goldblatt

Lifetimes Under Apartheid
by: Gordimer, Nadine and David Goldblatt

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.

Record # 350047

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Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)
by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

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.

Record # 411476

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Like Lions They Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africaby: Edgerton, Robert B.

Like Lions They Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africa
by: Edgerton, Robert B.

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.

Record # 387838

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Lion in the Morningby: Seaton, Henry

Lion in the Morning
by: Seaton, Henry

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.

Record # 380851

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Lost Worlds of Africa by:  Wellard, James

Lost Worlds of Africa
by: Wellard, James

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.

Record # 374708

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Madagascar: Society and Historyby: Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Rakotoarisoa, Jean-Aime, Editor: Southall, A.

Madagascar: Society and History
by: Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Rakotoarisoa, Jean-Aime, Editor: Southall, A.

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.

Record # 378694

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Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheidby: Lichtenstein, Alex

Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
by: Lichtenstein, Alex

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.

Record # 353298

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Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa; Including A Sketch Of Sixteen Years Residence In The Interior Of Africa by: Livingstone, David

Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa; Including A Sketch Of Sixteen Years Residence In The Interior Of Africa
by: Livingstone, David

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.

Record # 381185

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Mocambique: East African Province of Portugulby: Spence C. F.

Mocambique: East African Province of Portugul
by: Spence C. F.

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.

Record # 380853

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Mombasa: An African Cityby: De Blij, Harm J.

Mombasa: An African City
by: De Blij, Harm J.

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.

Record # 383764

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Moroccoby: Nevill Barbour

Morocco
by: Nevill Barbour

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.

Record # 387743

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Mungo Park and the Niger: Great Explorersby: Thomson, Joseph

Mungo Park and the Niger: Great Explorers
by: Thomson, Joseph

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.

Record # 374693

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Nelson Mandelaby: Nelson, Kadir

Nelson Mandela
by: Nelson, Kadir

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.

Record # 350352

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No Man's Land: The Last of White Africaby: John Heminway

No Man's Land: The Last of White Africa
by: John Heminway

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.

Record # 387751

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa by: Comaroff, Jean, Comaroff, John L.

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
by: Comaroff, Jean, Comaroff, John L.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. An anthropological and historical discourse on the arrival of Christianity in the Southern Tswana region of South Africa. A compelling read and referenced in an in-depth manner. Clean copy.

Record # 380859

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Passage to Congo, A: Photographs by Doctor Emile Muller 1923-1938by: Loos, Pierre, Pierre Buch and Emile Muller

Passage to Congo, A: Photographs by Doctor Emile Muller 1923-1938
by: Loos, Pierre, Pierre Buch and Emile Muller

Hardcover. Milan, 5 Continents, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, b&w photographs taken by Muller. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. A Passage to Congo is a collection of photographs taken by Doctor mile Muller (1891-1976) in the Congo provinces of the Kasa< and Katanga, territories of the Chokwe, Luba, Bashibushong and Basalampasu tribes. For these people, he was not the boss, but he who cured, who gave relief, who listened. He could move easily between the tribes without having to tackle the reticence that has denatured so many ethnic photographs. The privileged witnesses of esoteric ceremonies that are rarely photographed, his images are precious from an ethnographic and historical point of view, and reveal a fine aesthetic sense and profound humanity. Veritable living masks, as in the remarkable portraits of young Chokwe girls, astonishing initiation rites, scenes of divination, wild rhythmic dances responding to the beat of the large slotted drums, sculptural bodies decorated with tattoos and refined headgear recall the beauty and riches of these cultures, now lost in the modern world.

Record # 351135

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PHOTOGRAPHS, BAMAKO, MALI, 1948-1963by: Keita, Seydou

PHOTOGRAPHS, BAMAKO, MALI, 1948-1963
by: Keita, Seydou

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Seydou Keita was born in Bamako, Mali in 1921, then part of the colony of French Sudan and a bustling transportation hub on the route to Dakar. With a Kodak Brownie given to him by his uncle, Keita took up photography at the age of fourteen, going on to establish what would become Bamako's most successful portraiture enterprise of the 1950s and 60s. Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949-1970 draws on an expanded archive to offer over 400 portraits, mostly unpublished, from the height of the photographer's productivity in downtown Bamako. Providing lushly patterned backdrops and props that now serve to date distinct periods in his career, the artist often styled his subjects but also encouraged their active participation, hanging sample portraits around the studio as inspiration. Migratory youth, government officials, shop owners and Bamako's cultural elite all make appearances here, and while Keita's photographs served as both family record and cultural status symbol for the clients who commissioned them, these images have become a lasting visual record of Mali at that time. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 350916

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Prelude To The Partition Of West Africa by: Hargreaves, John D.

Prelude To The Partition Of West Africa
by: Hargreaves, John D.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in worn dust jacket, 383 pages. fold-out map, bibliographical notes. A seminal study of the infiltration of European influence into West Africa (1860s-90s) from Senegal to Cameroon, the tension between French and English leading to partition.. Light pencil marking throughout. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387814

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