Zbirka: Afriška zgodovina
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Lords of the Horizons(1999) GOODWIN, JASON‘Perhaps the most readable history ever written’ Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic — detailed and alive — a journey, and a world all in one. The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on WesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Amazons of Black Sparta(2011) ALPERN, STANLEY B.This volume examines the "Amazons", whose existence has been verified via documents and eye-witness accounts from battles for the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Kaiser's Holocaust(2011) ERICHSEN, CASPER,OLUSOGA, DAVIDOn 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Destiny in the Desert(2013) DIMBLEBY, JONATHANA unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed ...Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Mandela(2011) SAMPSON, ANTHONYWidely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark(2004) GARDNER, LAURENCENew in paperback by Laurence Gardner, the bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail. From the tombs of pharaonic Egypt, to the laboratories of modern science, comes the extraordinary account of gravity defiance and teleportation in the ancient worVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Creating the Creole Island(2005) VAUGHAN, MEGANA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.Vezava: Mehka51,56 € -
Devil That Danced on the Water(2003) FORNA, AMINATTAAn intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Egyptian Myth(2004) PINCH, GERALDINE (ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY)Adopting a different approach to ancient Egypt, this book aims to illuminate the complex world of Egyptian myth. It explores the cultural and historical background behind a variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden sVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
It’s Our Turn to Eat(2010) WRONG, MICHELAA gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife(1999) HORNUNG, ERIKAncient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts...Vezava: Mehka48,10 € -
Washing Of The Spears(1994) MORRIS, DONALD RIn 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men wVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Waugh in Abyssinia(2000) WAUGH, EVELYNIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Another Day of Life(2001) KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARDIn 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of thVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Who Paid The Piper?(2000) SAUNDERS, FRANCES STONOR'Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordinarily good book and I do recommend it to anyone who's remotely interested in the period'- Ian McEwan authorVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
On the Postcolony(2001) MBEMBE, ACHILLEA collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, historyVezava: Mehka42,01 €
