Orientalism är boken som öppnade ögonen på en helvit värld när den utkom första gången 1978.Edward W. Saids bok är en av den moderna tidensviktigaste politiska och filosofiska texter, och ansesvara startpunkten för postkolonialismen.
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost…
NOMINERAD TILL AUGUSTPRISET! »Schibbyes och Perssons bok är rent enastående.« Aftonbladet »Den här boken skulle inte ha funnits om inte allt gått snett. Natten till den 28 juni 2011 satte vi allt på spel när vi i skydd av mörkret korsade gränsen mel…
NOMINERAD TILL AUGUSTPRISET! »Schibbyes och Perssons bok är rent enastående.« Aftonbladet Originalutgåvan av den här boken tar slut i Istanbul, precis innan Martin Schibbye och Johan Persson återvänder till Sverige. I pocketen berättar de nu om tide…
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, l…
Thirteen months after Lt-Gen Romeo went to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he flew home broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. This book takes us on a return voyage…
For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." Wh…
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activ…
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a…
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current th…
"Mina svarta stjärnor ? från Lucy till Barack Obama" är en annorlunda historiebok. Utgångspunkten är en skarp kritik mot den gängse historieskrivningen, som får en rasistisk grundton genom sitt traditionella osynliggörande av svarta männis…
Om benlämningar talar sanning då härstammar vi alla från Afrika! Här får läsaren en koncis framställning av de olika rikenas utbredning fram till slavhandelns "blomstring" på 1600- och 1700-talen, vilket ledde till många afrikanska samhällens utarmn…
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way…
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelli…
EN MAN HITTAS MÖRDAD på Klara Norra Kyrkogård och fallet hamnar på åklagare Tom Westers skrivbord. Snart går det upp för honom vem mannen är: barndoms- vännen Michael Strand, vars stora hjärta och dåliga samvete lett honom hela vägen till heroinspru…
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his r…
"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." -- Los Ang…
Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with the oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace of modern man and his characteristic cultural p…
How can a people overthrow 500 years of colonial oppression? What can be done to decolonize mentalities, economic structures, and political institutions? In this book, which includes the first translation of the text 'Analysis of a Few Types of Resi…
Norsk forsvarshistorie er i fem bind og tar for seg historien om Norges forsvar fra vikingtiden og frem til år 2000. Verket tar sikte på å dekke alle viktige sider ved forsvarets historie, med særlig vekt på sivilmilitære forhold og den sentrale for…
Våren 2015 är det lilla afrikanska landet Burundi en världsnyhet.I strid med konstitutionen planerar presidenten att ställa upp för omval till en tredje mandatperiod, och nu vibrerar gatorna av folkliga protester. Så väcks hoppet om att Burundi ska…
More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural…
This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa. Migrants who travelled to Zimbabwe stayed for years or decades, and those…
This book critically explores how meanings of 'independence' are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions…
Nelson Mandela föddes i en by i Sydafrika. I hela sitt liv kämpade han för de svarta människornas rättigheter. När han var 76 år blev han president.I den här boken kan du läsa om hans spännande liv.Den här boken ingår i vår serie "Fakta om ...". Det…
Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria's fight for independence has rarely been viewed as an international conflict. Even forty years later, it is rememb…
Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab and African worlds. Yet, unlike the colonial wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Algerian war for independence has rarely been viewed as a primarily international conflict. Rather, prevailing…
"Jag hade en farm i Afrika vid foten av berget Ngong." Så inleder Karen Blixen berättelsen om sina 17 år i Kenya, de år som skulle bli de viktigaste och mest omvälvande i hennes liv. Det var här hon upplevde sina lyckligaste ögonblick men också de s…
På 1700- och 1800-talen skedde stora förändringar i jordbrukssamhället i hela Västeuropa. Man brukar tala om den agrara revolutionen. Praktiskt yttrade sig förändringarna i nya redskap, nya odlingsväxter och nya sätt att bruka jorden. Här beskrivs j…
During the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. De…
Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Q…
Landets diktator har tystat all opposition och skapat en kontrollapparat som når långt bortom de geografiska gränserna. Tusentals flyr landet varje månad. Andra har likt journalisten Dawit Isaak fängslats. Ändå fortsätter många att försvara och hyll…
An epic account of the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943 from peerless war correspondent Alan Moorehead CBE, published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battles for El Alamein in July and October 1942. Moorehead's classic trilogy on…
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripte…
This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture…
A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an amb…
Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda He…
This unique volume tells the story of the Algerian counterrevolution from the viewpoint of the ordinary foot soldier in the O.A.S. (Organisation Armee Secrete). In a series of interviews with former O.A.S. participants, and using many unpublished do…
Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Afric…
Making a fresh contribution to our understanding of the history of Angola, this book explores the impact of social, political and economic change upon the largest ethnic group of the country, the Ovimbundu. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in…
Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting…
Dagens Europa og det særegent europeiske oppstod i det kraftfulle møte mellom romere, germanere og nordboere ved begynnelsen av vår tidsregning. Denne bredt anlagte europahistorie utgjør et viktig bidrag til vår europeiske selvforståelse og fortelle…
Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association, and widely acclaimed by educators and students, Abina and the Important Men, 2e is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court t…
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929-1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. This book links the Libyan genocide through cro…
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon s masterwork is a c…
Samene er Nordkalottens urfolk. Denne boka gir en oversikt og innføring i samisk historie, kultur og samfunn. Den første delen omfatter samenes historie fra de eldste tider fram til vår tid. Den andre delen behandler sentrale samiske kulturelementer…
This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campa…
In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa…
A critical expos of the impact of colonialism and power politics on the African nation of Eritrea contends that the small country endured decades of conflict and occupation only to be exploited by powerful outside nations. By the author of In the Fo…
Thiscomparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization."
