BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn & Other Correspondence & Documents Concerning the King and His Wives
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The king and his wives-letters and documents History is full of notable figures, but far fewer in number are those who have become iconic. An ind...
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Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. He...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of ...
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In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonial...
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Scramble for Africa...
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780380719990 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollin...
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Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumu...
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle...
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Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943
HardcoverOriginal price $54.00Original price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00Current price $46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army f...
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The Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally...
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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the hor...
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The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $50.99 - Original price $50.99Original price $50.99$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried from the Maldives...
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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /In the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue...
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Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022 This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically re...
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Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $53.95 - Original price $53.95Original price $53.95$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the b...
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Algeria: France's Undeclared War
HardcoverOriginal price $67.00 - Original price $67.00Original price $67.00$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other...
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The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging In the winter of 1873, Niss...
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Tales of Travels and Trains
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Jim Nicholls takes readers on a journey like no other. Visit places as remote as the Zulu battlefields in South Africa, learn about an inventor who...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, wh...
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Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France Since 1954
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores...
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Scandinavian History: From the Ice Age to the Modern Day, A Comprehensive Overview of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland & The Viking
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Nestled in the northernmost corner of Europe lies a land of rugged coastlines, vast forests, and a rich cultural heritage. Step back in time and im...
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An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first hal...
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An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first hal...
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