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African History

The Island of Bound Masters

Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius

Dwight Carey

The Island of Bound Masters

Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius

Dwight Carey

Shifting Solidarities

Shifting Solidarities

The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism

Asher Lubotzky

Writing the Noncolonial Self

Writing the Noncolonial Self

Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Alexander Fyfe

Vanished Water

Vanished Water

Imperialism, Capital, and Rural Ecologies in Late-Colonial Kenya

James D. Parker

Becoming Zimbabwean

Becoming Zimbabwean

A History of Indians in Rhodesia

Trishula Rachna Patel

Barbary Entanglements

Barbary Entanglements

Realizing American Independence on the World Stage

John M. Chamberlin

White Tongue, Brown Skin

White Tongue, Brown Skin

The Colonized Woman and Language

Maya Boutaghou

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

Legacies of Sound and Slavery

Mary Caton Lingold

An Age of Hubris

An Age of Hubris

Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century

Timothy Keegan

African Impressions

African Impressions

How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment

Rebekah Mitsein

Divided by the Word

Divided by the Word

Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities

Jochen S. Arndt

Slavery by Any Other Name

Slavery by Any Other Name

African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique

Eric Allina

Violence and Solace

Violence and Solace

The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa

Mxolisi R. Mchunu

The Civilizations of Africa

The Civilizations of Africa

A History to 1800

Christopher Ehret

Sol Plaatje

A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932

Brian Willan

Sol Plaatje

A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932

Brian Willan

Bound for Work

Bound for Work

Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965

Zachary Kagan Guthrie

The Finger of God

The Finger of God

Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa

Robert R. Edgar

The Cowboy Capitalist

The Cowboy Capitalist

John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa

Charles van Onselen

Historian

Historian

An Autobiography

Hermann Giliomee

Cradock

Cradock

How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town

Jeffrey Butler. Edited by Richard Elphick and Jeannette Hopkins

A World of Their Own

A World of Their Own

A History of South African Women’s Education

Meghan Healy-Clancy

The Last Afrikaner Leaders

The Last Afrikaner Leaders

A Supreme Test of Power

Hermann Giliomee

Postelection Conflict Management in Nigeria

Postelection Conflict Management in Nigeria

The Challenges of National Unity

John N. Paden

Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers

Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers

History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana

Wyatt MacGaffey

How Societies Are Born

How Societies Are Born

Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

Jan Vansina

The Equality of Believers

The Equality of Believers

Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa

Richard Elphick

After Apartheid

After Apartheid

Reinventing South Africa?

Edited by Ian Shapiro and Kahreen Tebeau

Wives of the Leopard

Wives of the Leopard

Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

Edna G. Bay

One Love, Ghoema Beat

One Love, Ghoema Beat

Inside the Cape Town Carnival

John Edwin Mason

The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

David Welsh

Beyond the Royal Gaze

Beyond the Royal Gaze

Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda

Neil Kodesh

The Afrikaners

The Afrikaners

Biography of a People

Hermann Giliomee

Friends for Life, Friends for Death

Friends for Life, Friends for Death

Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu

James A. Pritchett

Social Death and Resurrection

Social Death and Resurrection

Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa

John Edwin Mason

Cutting the Vines of the Past

Cutting the Vines of the Past

Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest

Tamara Giles-Vernick

The View across the River

The View across the River

Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism

Jeff Guy

Starving on a Full Stomach

Starving on a Full Stomach

Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa

Diana Wylie

An African Classical Age

An African Classical Age

Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to AD 400

Christopher Ehret

Colonial Subjects

Colonial Subjects

An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas

Philip S. Zachernuk

"Beyond Our Wildest Dreams"

"Beyond Our Wildest Dreams"

The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa

Ineke van Kessel

Blood from Your Children

Blood from Your Children

The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa

Benedict Carton

Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order

Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order

Timothy Keegan