Historia: särskilda händelser & ämnen

Ett av de stora verken om rasism och kolonialism Frantz Fanon skrev sin klassiska uppgörelse med kolonialismen mitt under kriget i Algeriet [1954-1962], där han själv aktivt tog del i motståndsrörelsens väpnade kamp. Jordens fördömda är en appell ...

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I december 2010 tände grönsakshandlaren Mohammed Bouazizi eld på sig själv i protest mot den tunisiska regimen. Det blev starten för vad som snart kom att kallas för den arabiska våren. Under 2011 föll regimerna i Tunisien, Libyen och Egypten, dem...

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Några minuter innan midnatt, den 17:e september 1961, påbörjar ett flygplan nedstigningen mot flygplatsen i Ndola, i dåvarande Nordrhodesia. I flygplanet sitter FN:s dåvarande generalsekreterare, Dag Hammarskjöld. Men landningen fullföljs aldrig, ...

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Svenska Karin blir som tonåring trollbunden av sin släkting Floras berättelser om sin barndom i koloniala Belgiska Kongo. Som ung flicka blir Floras kongolesiska mor bortgift mot sin vilja med en invandrad belgare i östra Kongo. Dottern Flora föds...

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'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of 19th-century colonialism is a bonus indeed.' Tom...

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FN har på nytt öppnat utredningen av Dag Hammarskjölds död i en flygkrasch, i Ndola i nuvarande Zambia. Var det verkligen ett misstag av piloten som orsakade kraschen? Eller rörde det sig i själva verket om sabotage eller rent av nedskjutning? Fol...

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After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. But how committed was Britain? In the 1960s, it...

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Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.

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With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still on...

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An illustrated study of premier US anti-ship missile, the AGM/RGM-84 Harpoon, and its 1986 and 88 uses against Libyan and Iranian naval vessels. In this study, defence technology expert Lon Nordeen details the role played by the Harpoon missile in...

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The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the histo...

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Några minuter innan midnatt, den 17:e september 1961, påbörjar ett flygplan nedstigningen mot flygplatsen i Ndola, i dåvarande Nordrhodesia. I flygplanet sitter FN:s dåvarande generalsekreterare, Dag Hammarskjöld. Men landningen fullföljs aldrig, ...

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»En oumbärlig makropolitisk karta.« Upsala Nya Tidning »Fazlhashemis bok ger en rik bild av krafterna bakom frihetslängtan i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika.« Corren »En efterlängtad skildring av en kultur, ett skeende och en region som missförståtts ...

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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign state of Ethiopia--a war of conquest that triggered a chain of events culminating in the Second World War. In this stunning and highly original tale of two Churches, ...

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'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh...

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Cultural Heritage Management in Africa explores the diversity of Africas cultural heritage by analysing how and why this heritage has been managed, and by considering the factors that continue to influence management strategies and systems through...

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National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, th...

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An original, authoritative and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day My dad had always told me about our city's magnificence, and as I looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit hom...

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In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully...

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A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World Wa...

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'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh...

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Om EU:s koloniala rötter. EU presenteras ofta som ett fredsprojekt. Men bakom fasaden döljer sig en helt annan historia. För politiker, opinionsbildare och organisationer som från mellankrigstiden och framåt arbetade för europeisk integration stod...

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När Jonas Thorsons föräldrar en dag år 1707 får veta att deras son har sålts som slav på en auktion i Alger på den ökända Barbariska kusten i Medelhavet är det ett skakande besked. Men Thorson är inte ensam: under perioden 16501770 tillfångatogs e...

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Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders? Slavery was a common practice in Africa long before...

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The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a sin...

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Written by two authors with unparalleled first-hand experience of Darfur, this is the definitive guide. Newly updated and hugely expanded, this edition details Darfur's history in Sudan. It traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infa...

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This present volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. The British were in Darfu...

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The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by Americas systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africas liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghan...

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