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Flammen uber Deutschost: Der Maji-Maji-Aufstand in Deutsch-Ostafrika 1905-1906, die erste gemeinsame Erhebung schwarzafrikanischer Volker gegen weisse Kolonialherrschaft. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte.

By: Nuhn, Walter.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, (1998). First Edition.:

Seller ID: qms354

Octavo, red boards (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 292 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: In den Jahren 1905/06 ereignete sich im heutigen Tansania eine der grossten Tragodien in der Kolonialgeschichte Schwarzafrikas. Im Maji-Maji-Aufstand erhoben sich erstmals in grosser Zahl verschiedenste Volkerschaften und Stamme gegen die weisse Fremdherrschaft. Beflugelt von einem schutzenden Zaubertrunk zogen die Eingeborenen mit noch nie gekanntem Fanatismus gegen die deutschen Kolonialtruppen in den Kampf und setzten diesen sehr schwer zu. Es dauerte geraume Zeit, ...
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The African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present.

By: Oliver, Roland.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: HarperCollins, 1991.:

Seller ID: 71333bd

Octavo, brown & black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 284 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with light sunning to spine. From dust jacket: This authoritative work covers the entire span of human history across the African continent from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa to the repeal of the Population Registration Act of 1950 and the lifting of trade sactions in 1991. Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the human colonisation of the different regions of Afr...
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South African Tragedy: The Life and Times of Jan Hofmeyr. Abridgement by Dudley C. Lunt.

By: Paton, Alan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1965).:

Seller ID: 71342bd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xii + 424 pp. Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: The story of South Africa today is inextricably bound to the life of Jan Hofmeyr. For Hofmeyr represented perhaps the last hope for a liberal policy in government as opposed to the present extremist policies of apartheid. The life of J. H. Hofmeyr had an inner drama that was exciting and unique: there was a strange childhood; a prodigious academic career crowned by a brilliant Oxford record; the principalship of a university ...
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African Voices: An Anthology of Native African Writing.

By: Rutherfoord, Peggy; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [MCMLVIII).:

Seller ID: 4431s

Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt letters, 208 pp. Former owner stamp; otherwise, Fine in an edgeworn dust jacket. This is the first collection of native writing to be published in this country. Carefully and comprehensively prepared...it presents a varied and creative writing, prose, and poetry, from all parts of Africa -- writing rich in invention and worthy to stand with any national culture in literary quality and scope...' This is us! Africa speaking to Africa and to the world...'
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The Land of Prester John: A Chronicle of Portuguese Exploration.

By: Sanceau, Elaine.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Knopf, 1944. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 50316fd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xi + 243 pp. Maps. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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The Land and People of Algeria.

By: Spencer, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1969]. Portraits of tne Nations Series.:

Seller ID: 28309

1st edition. Octavo, gray cloth, 156 pp. Photos, map. Fine in a slightly chipped 8dust jacket.
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Abbeokuta; Or, Sunrise within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission.

By: Tucker, Miss [Charlotte Maria].

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London: James Nisbet and Co., 1854.:

Seller ID: 800014m

4th edition. Duodecimo, full polished calf, calf label, 278 pp. 2 fold-out maps, 2 lithographic plates in color, 4 woodcut plates. Very Good; covers are lightly scuffed.
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen.

By: Tyldesley, Joyce.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Viking, [1999]. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 00087s

Octavo, black cloth & orange boards (hardcover), xiv, 232 pp. FIne (As New), in like dust jacket. Illus. with plates, figures, maps, photos, chronologies. Joyce Tyldesley uses a combination of archaeological, textual, and artistic evidence to provide a detailed discussion of the life and times of Nefertiti, set against the background of the heretical and ephemeral Amarna court. Nefertiti is a radical re-creation and the first full-scale biography of one of the most mysterious, powerful, and beautiful women of the ancient world.
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Volkerkundliche Aufzeichnungen aus dem Notizbuch eines Kamerun-Missionars, 1890-1914.

By: Valentin, Peter.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1978.:

Seller ID: 50155s

Octavo, yellow stapled wrappers, 37 pp. Near-Fine, with faint soiling to covers.
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Category: African History