Authors:Robert A Collins, Robert A Latham,
Publisher: Meckler
Keywords: review, annual, book, fantasy, fiction, science
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1988-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0887362494
ISBN-13: 9780887362491

Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: vol, western, africa, readings, text, history, documents, african
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1990-10
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558760156
ISBN-13: 9781558760158

This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park, Heinrich Barth, René Caillé, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers such as Abd Allah ibn Muhammad and Al-Kanami, Sire Abbas Soh, and Ahmadu Hampate Ba. The Trans-Sahara and Cross-Atlantic slave trade is a central concern of the book and the French and British colonial periods are also scrutinized. Modern times are examined in the texts of Nnamidi Azikiwe, Léopold Senghor, Sékou Touré, and Kwame Nkrumah. Special

Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: african, history, vol, readings, text, central, south
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1990-12
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558760172
ISBN-13: 9781558760172

Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th century, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, Catholic Church, and the slave trader on these blossoming African states. Included are reports by Portugese and English discoverers and missionaries such as Livingston and Stanley, as well as documents about the colonial history of the Belgian Congo, Angola, and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe which centuries later followed the kingdoms of Zimbabwe and the Mwanamutapa. Texts on the post-colonial period include the writings of Patrice Lumumba. The S

Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: african, history, readings, vol, eastern, documents, text
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1990-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558760164
ISBN-13: 9781558760165

This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush, ancient and medieval trade routes, including China’s discovery of Africa; the history of the East Coast; the Nilotic Slave trade, kingdoms and court life in Inner East Africa, the appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and colonialists. The texts include important local authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators from Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, India, and China. Modern times are considered in the documents of Jomo Ken

Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: perspective, historical, sudan, southern
Number of Pages: 101
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1412805856
ISBN-13: 9781412805858

Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan,and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, based on a seriesof lectures he gave in 1973 to the Department of Middle Eastern and AfricanHistory and the Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies atTel Aviv University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan,from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early twentiethcentury, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence in 1956, to theviolence of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Author: Robert Collins
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: glory, tarnished, blunt, james, general
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1589802535
ISBN-13: 9781589802537

Despite his absence from most Civil War histories, Union General James Gilpatrick Blunt was an immensely successful leader. He and John Brown helped escaped slaves reach Canada; he led the defeat of Confederate troops at Fort Wayne, Prairie Grove, and Cane Hill. Though his successful military campaigns were well-reported and he was viewed as a hero, Blunt was also accused of corruption, womanizing, and was known for his egotistical tirades throughout his military career. This biography gives perspective on the western frontier of the Civil War, along with some insight into the behavior of an i

Author: Robert Collins
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: kansan, statesman, scoundrel, lane, jim
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1589804457
ISBN-13: 9781589804456

James Lane was one of the most visible faces of the Free State movement during the Territorial period of Kansas’s history. He was the most powerful politician west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. This book addresses Lane’s early life, military and political careers, and his controversial reputation as a fanatic who was responsible for leading Kansas into the Civil War