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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen...
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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen...
$156.00
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800
An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic historySome of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo,...
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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community...
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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community...
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Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
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Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with...
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The Agrarian Question in South Africa
This is the first collection of its kind. It presents a critical political economy of the agrarian question in post-apartheid South Africa, informed by the results of research undertaken since the transition from apartheid started in 1990. The articles, by...
$165.00
Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company
This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).From the imperial Royal Niger Company's...
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Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company
This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).From the imperial Royal Niger Company's...
$156.00
Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973
In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, Levin finds that...
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Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973
In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, Levin finds that...
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Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
A stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and more Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa...
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Arches across the Roman Empire: The History of the Roman Arches Built in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and North Africa
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingSome of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern world today are the arches that Romans erected to commemorate military victories and glorify individual emperors. The story...
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Arches across the Roman Empire: The History of the Roman Arches Built in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and North Africa
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingSome of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern world today are the arches that Romans erected to commemorate military victories and glorify individual emperors. The story...
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Archaeology, Societies and Environments in Africa
African Prehistory is at the core of UISPP concerns, namely due to its crucial role to understand the origins and evolution of humans, but also for the complexity of its cultural diversity, in all major issues that are focused by...
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The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa
This work presents contributions from South African, European, and North American authors working in academic and governmental institutions. Chapters provide latest regional syntheses and discuss diverse topics, such as Acheulean hominin behaviour, Holocene hunter-gatherer subsistence, settlement patterns and land use...
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Archaeology of the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa
This study gathers together the results of archaeological work on the South African Namaqualand region, focusing on human adaptation to the desert environment in the late Stone Age. Settlement patterns are a major concern, with a preponderance of short-stay sites....
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The Archaeology of Southern Africa
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that...
$176.00
Africa and the American Flag (Cram Edition)
This XpressRead Cram Edition of Africa and the American Flag pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Africa and the American Flag" offers a compelling historical account of the 19th-century...
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The Archaeology of Southern Africa
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that...
$58.00
Archaeology of Mound-Clusters in West Africa
Archaeology of Mounds clusters in West Africa aims to understand the dynamics that enhanced and sustained the settlement systems made of distinct but close mounds. Most of the mounds-clusters are found in low-lying and flat areas in West Africa sahel...
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Africa and the American Flag
"Africa and the American Flag" offers a compelling historical account of the 19th-century fight against the slave trade in West Africa. Author Andrew H. Foote presents a detailed exploration of the era, shedding light on the complex dynamics between Africa,...
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The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
This comprehensive study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa charts the historical background and archaeological evidence attesting to the spread of Islam across the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Nigeria. Surveying a timespan from the immediate...
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Archaeology of Early Northeastern Africa
Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Poznaân Archeological Museum, Institute of Archeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Science, Poznaân Branch and International Comission of the Later Prehistory of Northeastern Africa held at the Poznaân Archeological Museum, Juliy14th-18th 2003....
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Africa and the American Flag
Embark on a riveting journey through history with "Africa and the American Flag" by Andrew H. Foote, a timeless classic that has been out of print for decades and is now proudly republished by Alpha Editions for the current and...
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Africa and the American Flag.
Title: Africa and the American Flag.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and...
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The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns (Revised)
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental...
$105.00
The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental...
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Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History: A Turbulent History
Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa...
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