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Ostindiska kompanierna
AvDick Harrison
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
199 kr
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När européerna upptäckte världen på 1600-talet sökte många lyckan på andra sidan Atlanten och Indiska oceanen. Konkurrensen var hård och bekymren många: sjörövare, giriga furstar och tropiska farsoter gjorde att köpmännen fick gå samman och bilda handelskompanier. Nederländare, britter, fransmän, danskar, svenskar och österrikare grundade egna kompanier för att bemästra svårigheterna.

Dick Harrison berättar i denna bok om de mytomspunna ostindiska kompaniernas tid. Om hur sagolika skatter och stora förmögenheter hägrade i fjärran och tusentals människor satte livet på spel för att förverkliga drömmar om äventyr och rikedom. Och om hur dessa riskabla sjöresor beredde vägen för den västerländska imperialismen och industriella revolutionen.
African History of Africa
From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
AvZeinab Badawi
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
125 kr
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Discover the ground-breaking, must-read history of Africa, the Sunday Times bestseller charting the epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from the perspectives of Africans themselves. Shortlisted for the Nero Book AwardsPicked as a best paperback by the Sunday Times, Guardian and I paperRadio 4 Book of the WeekAs recommended on The Rest is PoliticsEveryone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Badawi weaves together a gripping new history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.Praise for An African History of Africa:‘Fascinating, thought-provoking and entertaining’ Sunday Times‘Dazzling . . . A book that feels long-overdue’ Vogue‘Authoritative and compelling’ BBC History‘Both a tour d'horizon and a tour de force, marvellously readable and beautifully written . . . I cannot recommend it too strongly or praise it too highly’ Professor Sir David Cannadine‘Remarkable’ Margaret Busby CBE‘Epic, magnificent, brilliant’ Professor Kate Williams
Eyes of the World
Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo
AvJames H. Smith
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
285 kr
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The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices.The digital devices that, many would argue, define this era exist not only because of Silicon Valley innovations but also because of a burgeoning trade in dense, artisanally mined substances like tantalum, tin, and tungsten. In the tentatively postwar Eastern DR Congo, where many lives have been reoriented around artisanal mining, these minerals are socially dense, fueling movement and innovative collaborations that encompass diverse actors, geographies, temporalities, and dimensions. Focusing on the miners and traders of some of these “digital minerals,” The Eyes of the World examines how Eastern Congolese understand the work in which they are engaged, the forces pitted against them, and the complicated process through which substances in the earth and forest are converted into commodified resources. Smith shows how violent dispossession has fueled a bottom-up social theory that valorizes movement and collaboration—one that directly confronts both private mining companies and the tracking initiatives implemented by international companies aspiring to ensure that the minerals in digital devices are purified of blood.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
AvPhilip Gourevitch
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
143 kr
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Guardian First Book award'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' – Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm‘Should be compulsory reading’ – The GuardianIn 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, journalist Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler’s war against the Jews.Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest non-fiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda’s decimation. As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity’s betrayal and its perseverance.‘Gourevitch constructs a powerful indictment against international inaction’ – Observer‘Magnificent, terrifying’ – The Irish TimesPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Svart historia
AvAmat Levin
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(33)
243 kr
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Nominerad till Augustpriset för Årets Fackbok 2022

"Ulrika Knutson fångas av en oavbrutet spännande bok, full av öden som alla kan fylla tjocka biografier i egen rätt."Expressen"Amat Levin ger den svarta diasporan i Sverige nycklar och historisk kunskap"Aftonbladet

"I kärnfulla avsnitt lägger den svenske journalisten Amat Levin ett pussel av bitar från en försummad del av världshistorien."Östgöta Correspondenten"Det går liksom inte att argumentera mot den här bokens självklara existensberättigande och att den fyller en lucka i de flesta svenskars bildning och bokhyllor."DN, Andres Lokko

För fyra år sedan startade journalisten Amat Levin Instagram-kontot Svart historia. Intresset för kontot exploderade, idag har det nästan 70 000 följare. Uppenbarligen var det många som saknade en mångfacetterad bild av Afrikas och svarta människors historia.

Få delar av världshistorien är lika försummad som svarta afrikaners och den tillhörande diasporan runt om i världen. Fram till för bara sex decennier sedan ansågs den inte ens vara värld att studera. Bilden av Afrika som en kontinent vars historia börjar med ankomsten av européer har på många sätt överlevt fram till idag. Fortfarande finns de som ser på Afrika som mer eller mindre samma land, ett mörkt hörn av världen dominerat av ändlösa krig och utbredd fattigdom, eller de som tänker att kontinenten har kolonialismen att tacka för de framsteg som skett. Att kasta nytt ljus över den sortens tankegångar var utgångspunkten för Amat Levin när han startade kontot och nu ger ut boken Svart historia. I Svart historia blandas en stor mängd personer, fenomen, händelser och skeenden: från uråldriga folkvandringar med massiva konsekvenser, skapandet av världens kanske första kristna stat och den trans-sahariska slavhandeln, till den karibiska frihetskampen, Angelas Davis motstånd och Sister Rosetta Tharpe – rock’n’rollens gudmoder.

Boken försöker inte ge en komplett eller slutgiltig bild av Afrikas, eller svarta människors, historia, utan är en serie nedslag, en samling breda penseldrag som ger en introducerande inblick. Kärnfull utan att vara för förenklande fungerar den som ett verktyg till att bättre förstå världen vi lever i idag.
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
AvAdam Hochschild
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
168 kr
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian.King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.'All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel' - Robert Harris, author of FatherlandNow part of the Picador Collection
Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
AvToby Wilkinson
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
222 kr
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A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra.‘A sophisticated and complete account’ The Times: Books of the Year‘Wilkinson’s stirring and clear-sighted account of the ancient world's most enduring civilisation comes as a welcome treat’ Sunday Times: Books of the YearThis is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome.As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
AvWalter Rodney
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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262 kr
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, a practice that continues up into the present. Meticulously researched, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains an unshakably relevant study of the so-called "great divergence" between Africa and Europe, just as it remains a prescient resource for grasping the the multiplication of global inequality today. In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking foreword to the book, exploring its lasting contributions to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism.
Apartheid
AvAndreas Karlsson
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
189 kr
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Apartheid i Sydafrika var ett av 1900-talets mest brutala samhällssystem, ett systematiskt rasbaserat förtryck av majoritetsbefolkningen. Själva ordet "apartheid" lär ha myntats av en vit pastor på 1920-talet men ofta betraktas nationalistpartiets valseger 1948 som startår för apartheidsamhället. I själva verket fanns då redan många av de diskriminerande raslagarna på plats. Det som skulle bli ett av historiens värsta förtryckarsamhällen vilade på århundraden av segregation, präglat av ett kolonialt arv och en komplex befolkningssammansättning.
Vad innebar egentligen apartheid och varför uppstod det i Sydafrika? I den här boken berättar Andreas Karlsson kunnigt och engagerat om ett ökänt samhällssystem som varade till början av 1990-talet och fortfarande påverkar Sydafrika. Han ger en tydlig bild av raslagarnas inverkan på befolkningen, omvärldens reaktioner, hur det inhemska motståndet såg ut samt hur det gick till när systemet slutligen avskaffades.
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
AvShaw,Shaw
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
198 kr
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is the only up-to-date, single-volume history of ancient Egypt available in English. The accessible essays and attractive illustrations portray the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, covering the period from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. The authors - all experts working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the principal sequence of political events, including detailed examinations of the three so-called 'intermediate periods' which were previously regarded as 'dark ages' and are only now beginning to be better understood. Against the backdrop of the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, this Oxford History also examines cultural and social patterns, including stylistic developments in art and literature. The pace of change in such aspects of Egyptian culture as monumental architecture, funerary beliefs, and ethnicity was not necessarily tied to the rate of political change. Each of the authors of this history has therefore set out to elucidate, in both words and pictures, the underlying patterns of social and political change and to describe the changing face of ancient Egypt, from the biographical details of individuals to the social and economic factors that shaped the lives of the population as a whole.
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Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century
A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 7
AvPeter Adamson,Chike Jeffers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
309 kr
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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora. The story starts at the very beginning by asking what it would mean to engage philosophically with evidence left by prehistoric peoples of Africa, and proceeds to discuss the philosophical traditions of ancient Egypt, late ancient and early modern Ethopia, and Islamic philosophy in West Africa. A number of chapters then explore the idea of philosophy in African oral traditions, considering the methodological debates that have raged between African philosophers like John Mbiti, Paulin Hountondji, and Henry Odera Oruka. Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers also consider philosophical responses to the situation brought about by the transatlantic slave trade and the early colonization of Africa. Starting from early figures like Anton Wilhelm Amo and Phillis Wheatley, and the ideas that drove the Haitian Revolution, extensive discussion is then given to Africana philosophy of the nineteenth century. The incendiary ideas of David Walker, the nuanced rhetoric of Frederick Douglass, and the clashing approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are among the highlights here. Significant attention is given to female thinkers like Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells. The coverage is also geographically diverse, with chapters on figures who worked not only in Africa and the United States, but also Brazil, Canada, Britain, France, and the Caribbean.
Kongokrisen : Hammarskjöld och insatsen i Katanga
AvWilhelm Agrell
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
189 kr
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Den svenska FN-insatsen i Kongo 1960-1964 var redan från början kontroversiell. Det svenska försvaret hade vid denna tid inga erfarenheter av operationer långt från hemlandet. Och vad var det egentligen man skulle uppnå som fredsbevarare i ett land i kaos?
Steg för steg förändrades uppdraget och de svenska styrkorna blev alltmer en stridande part i ett inbördeskrig kring utbrytarstaten Katanga. Att Sverige ändå slöt upp berodde till stor del på att Dag Hammarskjöld var FN:s generalsekreterare. För honom var Kongokrisen en avgörande utmaning där han måste visa att världsorganisationen kunde spela en självständig roll mellan stormakterna.
I ett försök att hitta en väg ut ur den förvärrade krisen reste Hammarskjöld till Kongo i september 1961, det uppdrag som skulle bli hans sista och som slutade i en nattlig flygkrasch under oklara omständigheter. Var det en olycka som den officiella utredningen snabbt slog fast? Eller hade Hammarskjöld direkt eller indirekt bragts om livet av någon av de krafter som ville röja honom ur vägen?
Boken ingår i serien Sveriges dramatiska historia.
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In Search of Enemies
A CIA Story
AvJohn Stockwell
Häftad, Engelska, 1979
300 kr
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In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only “advisors,” many millions were spent, many thousands died, and many lies were told to the American people, in waging a war without purpose to American vital interests and without hope of victory.
Zulu Rising
The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift
AvIan Knight
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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186 kr
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'A definitive account of one of the most dramatic encounters in the whole history of Empire . . . [a] tour de force' The Daily Mail'Ian Knight manages to expose many of the Victorian myths while still capturing the kind of epic excitement that makes Zulu so stirring. It is a first class work of military history, not least for its evocative and extensive use of Zulu sources' Sunday TimesThe battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies and at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people.In Zulu Rising Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. He gives full weight to the Zulu experience and explores the reality of the fighting through the eyes of men who took part on both sides, looking into the human heart of this savage conflict. Based on new research, including previously unpublished material, Zulu oral history, and new archaeological evidence from the battlefield, this is the definitive account of a battle that has shaped the political fortunes of the Zulu people to this day.'This new history by Ian Knight is thorough and definitive. Knight uses first-hand sources, both Zulu and British, with admirable even-handedness, to examine the bloody clash between two different warrior traditions' Sunday Telegraph
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Shifting Sands
A Human History of the Sahara
AvJudith Scheele
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
144 kr
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'A fascinating travelogue and history of the world's largest hot desert ... fresh, original and energising' THE TIMESIn this sweeping account, Judith Scheele reveals the rich history and complex reality of the world's largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, Scheele leads us from the ancient Roman Empire through the bloody colonial era to the geopolitics of the present - and the race for resources that will define the future. The Sahara covers parts of eleven countries, and Scheele follows in the footsteps and tyre-tracks of the many people who cross the desert, taking us into the homes, mosques, palm groves and battlefields where history is written, spoken and remade.The result is a masterful portrait of the Sahara. Encompassing the geology, religions, peoples and politics that shape and fracture the region, Shifting Sands tells the immersive story of a place whose future holds implications for us all.
Shadow of the Sun
My African Life
AvRyszard Kapuscinski
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
125 kr
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'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.
Det forntida Egypten : enligt Edgar Cayce
AvJohn Van Auken
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
272 kr
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I boken Det forntida Egypten – Enligt Edgar Cayce kommer vi närmare det gamla Egyptens liv och gåtor. Nutida forskning bekräftar mycket av det som Edgar Cayce avslöjade för eftervärlden. En del av hans readingar handlar om tidigare liv i Egypten. Författaren kombinerar dessa med egyptiska legender som förekommer i papyrusrullar, på tempelväggar och i pyramidtexter för att ge en mer fullständig bild som avslöjar hela historien om prästinnor, healers, kvinnliga faraoner och gudar bland människor. I det första kapitlet får vi veta att översteprästen Ra-Ta reste runt i världen med flyg! För oss kan det vara svårt att förstå att urtida folk hade tekniskt kunnande för att göra flygresor. Det fanns flyg i urtida Indien och i Egypten, det fanns kaldeiska och babyloniska flygplan och det lyfts bevis för mayas och inkas flygplan. I boken berättas om olika tempel i Egypten. Edgar Cayce har mest beskrivit två typer av dem: Offertempel, som var en fysisk upplevelse och Skönhetens tempel som snarare hade mental karaktär. En annan intressant uppgift om templen var att man där skulle skapa kroppar som inkarnerade själar kunde bo i. En bok om Egypten behandlar naturligtvis också pyramiderna, och i synnerhet den stora pyramiden med dess intressanta profetia. Läs Cayces kommentarer till David Davidsons och H. Adersmiths upptäckter. Flera av de mer än 80 illustrationerna berör pyramiderna och dess profetiska tidslinje. Pyramider på andra platser på jorden tas också upp. Cayces readingar berättar att det finns tre uppsättningar arkiv gömda på olika platser. I dem finns en förhistorisk redogörelse från den atlantiska eran om den tid då själar började komma in i materiella kroppar. Dessa arkiv har ännu inte hittats. Annat du kan läsa om är: Hermes – en gud bland människor, en kvinnlig farao som hade stor betydelse, mänsklighetens sju stadier mot upplysning och det egyptiska bildspråket. Bokens över 300 sidor ger en intressant och spännande bild av det forntida Egypten, sett ur Edgar Cayces synvinkel. John Van Auken är författare till ett flertal bästsäljande böcker. På svenska finns förutom Det forntida Egypten – Enligt Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce om Jesus - Hans ord tolkade, Hans mystiska undervisning uppenbarad, Edgar Cayce om andliga krafter inom dig, Profetior för vår tid – Den yttersta tiden?, Från Karma till Nåd samt Edgar Cayce och Kabbalah.
Cobalt Red
How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
AvSiddharth Kara
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
329 kr
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Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. More than 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated.
There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
AvChinua Achebe
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
149 kr
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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, There Was a Country is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.
Ancient Egypt
An Illustrated History
AvLorna Oakes,Lucia Gahlin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
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212 kr
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A detailed history with fascinating insights and a gorgeous visual reference, this book tours the sacred Egyptian sites, from theimpressive mortuary temples of the pharaohs to those dedicated to the many gods and goddesses.It includes an in-depth examination of the crucial role that religious belief and mythology played during this intriguing period of ancient history.The allure of ancient Egypt has endured over many centuries - and this authoritative volume offers further intriguing insights. It delves into the tombs, devoting chapters to the most famous burial sites: Giza, Saqqara and the Valley of the Kings, where the resting place of the boy-king Tutankhamun was discovered. The book also describes Egypt's temples, religions and myths, from the impressive mortuary temples of the pharaohs, such as Ramesses II, to elaborate funerary rituals, offerings and superstitions.With maps, chronologies and artwork supplementing more than 750 photographs, this book captures the essence of a fascinating epoch.
Afrikas historia
AvJonas Carlsson
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
231 kr
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Afrikas historia är en vandring genom kontinentens historia – från människans start i Östafrika, via riken som forna Egypten, Mali, Aksum och Stora Zimbabwe, till slaveri, kolonialism och dagens Afrika. Boken är en introduktion och ska ge grundläggande allmänbildning om kontinenten. Varför växte det fram ett anrikt rike vid Nilen? Har slaveriet några effekter på Afrika än idag? Vad måste ANC i Sydafrika göra för att fortsätta behålla makten?

Sådana frågor hoppas jag att du kan få svar på i den här boken. Tanken är att det här ska vara den första av fyra böcker om världens historia.

Jonas Carlsson är journalist, har en bred allmänbildning och är nyfiken på det mesta i världen. Han har studerat journalistik, statsvetenskap, Afrikas historia, Mellanöstern och Nordafrikas politik och ekonomi, Stockholms historia samt musik och media. Bland Jonas Carlssons arbetsplatser märks bland annat Sveriges radio, Motala & Vadstena Tidning, Riksdag & departement och Direktpress.

Jonas Carlsson växte upp i Järfälla och bor idag i Blackeberg i Stockholm. Hans stora intressen är världens historia, fotboll, politik och musik.
Savage War of Peace
Algeria 1954-1962
AvAlistair Horne
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
192 kr
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King of Kings
The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
AvAsfa-Wossen Asserate
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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165 kr
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Haile Salassie, the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Soloman, was a pioneer of African unity and independence, a staunch confederate of the Allies in their fight against the fascist Axis powers and the messiah of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement. A reformer and an autocracy, his rule was brought to a brutal and ignominious end when he was toppled and and murdered by communist rebels.Asfa-Wossen Asserate – a close descendant, who knew the Emperor personally – for the first time brings clarity to the life of this impressive and complex personality. King of Kings is the story of the most eminent African ruler of the 20th century and the country he ruled through both stirring and tragic times.
In Nigeria
AvMichael Palin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
208 kr
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With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palin’s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things easy. Then the opportunity to visit Africa’s most populous nation arose. A few weeks later, he was at Lagos airport, camera crew in tow.The journal he kept during his trip offers a fascinatingly kaleidoscopic view of a country where some 500 languages are spoken and which contains within its borders everything from tropical rainforests to grasslands to desert plains. At one moment he is in vibrant but chaotic Lagos, the next in the seemingly deserted streets of Nigeria’s hyper-modern capital, Abuja, the next in the polluted oil fields of the Niger Delta. He is welcomed as an honoured guest by a powerful emir and harangued by a passerby in Benin City. He hears the testimony of a kidnap victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram and experiences the collective spiritual ecstasy of one of Nigeria’s mega churches. And throughout his trip, he experiences at first hand the contradictions of a country that has so much natural wealth and human talent and yet simultaneously grapples with corruption, religious strife and deep inequality.Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.
Shield and the Sword
AvErnle Bradford
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
224 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Operation Salam
AvKuno Gross,Michael Rolkem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska
518 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Great Siege, Malta 1565
Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide
AvErnle Bradford
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
206 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
AvJason Stearns
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
241 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason Stearns has written a compelling and deeply reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's great war.
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
AvHelen Strudwick
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
307 kr
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For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was home to the greatest civilization on earth. Illustrated with more than 1,500 photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt is a celebration of the wonders of ancient Egypt, from the mask of Tutankhamun to the Valley of the Kings and the great pyramids of Giza, and from tomb hieroglyphs to golden treasures decorated with ankhs and scarabs. Exploring the history, religion, literature, and art of the ancient Egyptians, as well as the day-to-day experience of ordinary citizens such as pyramid builders, scribes, and craftsmen, this book brings to life the world of the pharaohs in vivid detail, providing a wealth of information about this fascinating and mysterious culture.
Three Mothers
How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
AvAnna Malaika Tubbs
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
125 kr
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history … Eye-opening, engrossing’Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing men. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol.It was a society that would deny their sons’ humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons. They would become mothers not just to three world-famous men but to the civil rights movement itself.These women represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue.

Afrikas historia

Ostindiska kompanierna

African History of Africa

Eyes of the World

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

Svart historia

King Leopold's Ghost

Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Apartheid

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century

Kongokrisen : Hammarskjöld och insatsen i Katanga

In Search of Enemies

Zulu Rising

Shifting Sands

Shadow of the Sun

Det forntida Egypten : enligt Edgar Cayce

Cobalt Red

There Was a Country

Ancient Egypt

Afrikas historia

Savage War of Peace

King of Kings

In Nigeria

Shield and the Sword

Operation Salam

Great Siege, Malta 1565

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Three Mothers