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This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire ...
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of ...
A superb new history of Africa, told from the ground up
Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many ...
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a ...
The magnificent saga of how the white man changed Africa: the pioneers, visionaries and politicians - and their crazy railway.
In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at ...
Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africas greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear ...
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period ...
FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY
'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it ...