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An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Ha...
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Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song'...
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the sixties and seventies. An unblinking portrait of the anticolon...
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Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960/Religion, Colonisation Et Décolonisation Au Congo, 1885-1960
PaperbackOriginal price $59.00 - Original price $59.00Original price $59.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Is...
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A stunning work of popular history—the story of how a crop transformed the history of slaveryAmericans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut ...
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other tre...
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The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780197692196 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 06-01-2023 Pages: 256 Product...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to der...
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Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land d...
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Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A dramatic, true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best...
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Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in Context
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An exploration of the worldviews that underpinned settler colonialism. The sixteenth-century European wars of religion set the stage for mass mig...
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Ind...
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Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781847013828 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: James Currey Publication Date: 10-17-2023 Pages: 216 Series: African Articul...
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Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism After Elia Zureik
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through W...
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Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other ...
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates...
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, an...
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling test...
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decoloniz...
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Go Down Odawa Way
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Go Down Odawa Way is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional terr...
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Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award American Society of Missiology Book Award ★ Publishers Weekly starred review You cannot discover lands already in...
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780198866275 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 06-30-2023 Pages: 0
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In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Sindhi nationalism is one of the oldest yet least studied cases of identity politics in Pakistan. Ethnic discontent appeared in Sindh in opposition...
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Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, ...
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