- HISTORY: Africa: Central
- HISTORY: Africa: East
- HISTORY: Africa: General
- HISTORY: Africa: North
- HISTORY: Africa: South
- Abolitionists Abroad
- In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates this story of freed slaves who set out to establish communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Africa and Its Explorers
- Paperback
- The Ape in the Tree
- This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution. It is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world and its attributes have profound implications for the very definition of humanness.
- Hardcover 2005
- Artistry of the Everyday
- Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. The book also tells the stories of the collectors--both world-traveling Bostonians and Harvard-trained anthropologists--who brought these objects to Cambridge in the early twentieth century.
- Paperback 2008
- Black, French, and African
- Hardcover 1990
- Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
- This fourth and final installment in Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume’s discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the period of the Umayyad caliphate.
- Hardcover 2009
- Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
- When American reporter Henry Morton Stanley met Scottish missionary-explorer Dr. David Livingstone in 1871, his greeting was to take on mythological proportions. Drawing on films, children's books, games, songs, cartoons, and TV shows, this book reveals the many ways our culture has remembered Stanley's phrase, while tracking the birth of an Anglo-American Christian imperialism that still sets the world agenda today.
- Hardcover 2007
- Dumbarton Oaks Papers 63
- Hardcover 2009
- Forgotten Saints and Silenced Mystics
- In 1894, on the eve of the French conquest of Morocco, a young Muslim mystic named Muhammad al-Kattani decided to abandon his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, al-Kattani mobilized a socially diverse coalition of Moroccans who called for resistance against French colonization. Forgotten Saints and Silenced Mystics draws on a diverse collection of previously unknown primary sources to narrate the vivid story of al-Kattani and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.
- Paperback 2009
- A Line Drawn in the Sand
A Line Drawn in the Sand captures the determination of several African nations, including Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania, in providing lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens. By emphasizing the dramatic results that investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses, hope to individuals and communities confronted with the often devastating impact of AIDS, and inspiration to the international HIV/AIDS community.
- Paperback 2009
- Lunda Under Belgian Rule
- Bustin performs an ambitious task of social analysis in this inquiry into the workings and effects of alien rule upon an African state. He takes the historically important African kingdom of Lunda through the phase of state formation, its incapsulation within the colonial system, and incorporation into the politics of independence.
- Hardcover 1975
- Maize and Grace
- Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. The recent spread of maize has been alarmingly fast, with implications largely overlooked by the media and policymakers. McCann's compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of a single crop on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world's food supply.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Palestinian People
- In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. They unravel what went right--and what went wrong--in the Oslo peace process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people. The authors present a balanced, insightful, and sobering look at the realities of creating peace in the Middle East.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2003
- Promoting and Sustaining Economic Reform in Zambia
- This collection of essays examines Zambia's efforts to promote economic reform during the 1990s. Following the restoration of democratic rule, the Government of Zambia adopted an ambitious program designed to stabilize the economy and lay the foundation for sustained growth and development. These essays describe the adjustment program, highlighting the attempts to reform the budget, the tax system, the financial system, agriculture and mining, and to create the human capacity to sustain the reforms.
- Paperback 2004
- Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Crimes?
This book presents a diverse collection of perspectives on prosecutions in South Africa, including a foreword by playwright and actor John Kani. Throughout, it highlights the important themes related to any post-conflict prosecution scheme including rule-of-law concerns, questions of evenhandedness and moral relativism, competing priorities and resource allocation, the limits of a court-centered approach to justice, and the potential transformative power of prosecutions.
- Paperback 2009
- Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa
- Paperback
- Soundings in Atlantic History
Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and the awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of David Hume.
- Hardcover 2009
- That the World May Know
- What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.
- Hardcover 2007
- Why Race Matters in South Africa
- This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
- Hardcover 2006