Africa in World History – serie
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21 produkter
Africanfuturism
African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds
Häftad, 2024
377 kr
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In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their concerns about grouping African work under …
Stones of Contention
A History of Africa's Diamonds
Häftad, 2014
290 kr
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Africa supplies the majority of the world's diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history of …
Converging on Cannibals
Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509–1670
Inbunden, 2019
869 kr
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In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of …
Converging on Cannibals
Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509–1670
Häftad, 2019
338 kr
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In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of …
History of Tourism in Africa
Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment
Häftad, 2021
334 kr
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An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other. Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly …
Histories of Global Health in Africa
Av Melissa Graboyes, Jennifer Tappan
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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Histories of Global Health in Africa offers a concise and compelling introduction to the development and practice of global health on the African continent over the past century. Rather than centering institutions, the book foregrounds the people whose lives and labor have shaped global …
Africanfuturism
African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds
E-bok, 2024
598 kr
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In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their concerns about grouping African work under …
Stones of Contention
A History of Africa's Diamonds
E-bok, 2014
523 kr
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Africa supplies the majority of the world's diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history of …
Converging on Cannibals
Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509–1670
E-bok, 2019
535 kr
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In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of …
History of Tourism in Africa
Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment
E-bok, 2021
535 kr
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An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other. Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly …
Stirring the Pot
A History of African Cuisine
Häftad, 2009
412 kr
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Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and …
African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World's Game
Av Peter Alegi
Häftad, 2010
444 kr
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From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African …
Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
Inbunden, 2015
901 kr
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A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm …
Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
Häftad, 2015
350 kr
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A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm …
Story of Swahili
Inbunden, 2015
883 kr
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Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 …
Story of Swahili
Häftad, 2015
343 kr
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Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 …
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea …
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast
Inbunden, 2017
883 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea …
Stirring the Pot
A History of African Cuisine
E-bok, 2009
524 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and …
Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
E-bok, 2015
551 kr
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A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm …
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast
E-bok, 2017
524 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea …
