Category - Social Science
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. This stu...
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Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; And White Man, Listen!
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together...
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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African ki...
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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and pe...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An ambitious and shocking expos of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...
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Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...
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The Yoruba: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small...
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Akwa-Cross People of Nigeria: History, Heritage, and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$164.99$164.99 - $164.99Current price $164.99| /The Akwa-Cross People of Nigeria: History, Heritage, and Culture is the first comprehensive book on Akwa-Cross contemporary historical analysis, an...
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four genera...
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Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains....
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Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. ...
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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized the...
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and th...
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The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /“In rescuing the Chibok tragedy from ‘mythic status,’ Habila’s unusual primer quietly yet powerfully revives the call to take notice.” —The Atlan...
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