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Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Sh... Read more
17 May 2019
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Ranked #2
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, “Patrice Lumumba” (Ohio University Press, 2014)
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, “Patrice Lumumba” (Ohio University Press, 2014)
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country’s first democratically elected prime m... Read more
2 Feb 2015
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Patrick Manning, “The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture” (Columbia UP, 2010)
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Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
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The Amistad Rebellion is usually remembered as the only instance in which a US court sent re-captured slaves back to Afr... Read more
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Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Slavery was pervasive in the Ancient World: you can find it in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In Late Antiquity ,... Read more
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Omina El Shakry, “The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Jeffrey Ahlman, “Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana” (Ohio University Press, 2017).
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Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror" (Ohio UP, 2018)
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Michelle Moyd, “Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa” (Ohio UP, 2014)
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