Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: lists, american, colleges, universities, reading, outlines, history, selected, course, african
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558760636
ISBN-13: 9781558760639

Author: Patricia W. Romero
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: topics, world, history, writings, travel, voices, africa, century, women
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1992-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558760482
ISBN-13: 9781558760486

An anthology of Victorian women’s writings on Africa. It offers an overview of the roles of women as scholars, missionaries, adventurers, spies and journalists, and gathers examples of their ground-breaking scholarly treatises, popular accounts, letters, articles and adventure stories.

Authors:Eric Williams, Colin Palmer,
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: minister, prime, education, hunger, inward
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-07
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1558763872
ISBN-13: 9781558763876

"When the author, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was a lad, his country was a British Crown Colony, and its government offered one university scholarship a year to the entire population. Young Williams won it, and went off to Oxford to study history and politics. He became an authority on West Indian history and, back home, founded the People’s National Movement Party, which has repeatedly returned him to office. Mr. Williams’ education has endowed him with a lucid style and, despite his dedication to his homeland, a mind that is anything but insular. This account of his effort

Authors:Lewis Hanke, Lewis Hanke, Jane M. Rausch,
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: colonial, experience, history, american, issues, latin, people
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558762345
ISBN-13: 9781558762343

Revised and expanded edition 2000. 396 pages.

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