Zbirka: Afriška zgodovina
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Britain's Gulag(2014) ELKINS, CAROLINEOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom.Vezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Season of Blood(1996) KEANE, FERGALWhen President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the teVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
There Was a Country(2013) ACHEBE, CHINUAThe defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices ofVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ghosts of Happy Valley(2014) BARNES, JULIETThe Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest.Vezava: Mehka16,82 € -
Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa(2009) LEMARCHAND, RENEThis collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central AfricVezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Of Africa(2013) SOYINKA, WOLESeeks to understand how the Africa's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment - both physical and intangiVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Short History of Africa(2012) KERR, GORDONAfrica. The cradle of civilisation. From the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa right through to the so-called 'Arab Spring' of 2011, Gordon Kerr offers a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous continent....Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cairo in the War(2013) COOPER, ARTEMISA history of the glamorous and military critical city of Cairo during the Second World WarVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pirates Of Barbary(2011) TINNISWOOD, ADRIANDrawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a lifeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade(2014) SHUMWAY, REBECCA (CUSTOMER)Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.Vezava: Mehka58,55 € -
Histories of the Hanged(2006) ANDERSON, DAVIDThe true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen(2000) CARTER, HOWARDThis book captures the painstaking, step-by-step process of excavation, and the wonders of the treasure-filled inner chamber. 106 on-the-spot photographs depict the phases of the discovery and the scrupulous cataloging of the treasures.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Rosetta Stone(2005) PARKINSON, RICHARDThis book tells the fascinating story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its hieroglyphic text.Vezava: Mehka8,41 € -
Ouidah(2004) LAW, ROBINOuidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Cairo(2004) GOLIA, MARIACairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the very limit. Packed with incident and anecdote, this book explores Cairo’s relationship with its ‘others’, fromVezava: Mehka34,98 €
