Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa (Routledge Religion Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African conti...

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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction, 1st Edition

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for g...

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story fro...

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Religion and AIDS in Africa

The African AIDS epidemic has sparked fierce debate over the role of religion. Some scholars and activists argue that religion is contribu...

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Medieval Africa 1250-1800

This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes Afr...

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History of Ancient Egypt

George Rawlinson (1812-1902) was a prolific author about classical history, and History of Ancient Egypt is one of Rawlinson’s most famous...

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Egypt's Making: The Origins of Ancient Egypt 5000-2000 BC 2nd Edition

Already a classic and widely used text, this second edition has been wholly revised and updated in the light of the many discoveries made ...

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Alexandria and Alexandrianism

One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to whic...

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Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth-century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt....

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Akhenaten: The Heretic King

Here is a striking portrait of Akhenaten, the monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various ...

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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans

This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peo...

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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the...

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The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth cent...

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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (Book 3): Ancient Egypt (2675 B.C.E.-332 B.C.E.), 1st Edition

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps stude...

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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links 1st Edition

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Dra...

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Modern Origins: A North African Perspective

Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and...

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Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, Second Edition

The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in ...

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Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to thePresent

Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on A...

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Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

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Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there name...

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