Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing ground...

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Chapman-Andrews and The Emperor

Based on Chapman-Andrew's diary, the core of the book describes the extraordinary SOE operation in 1940 to re-instate the Emperor on ...

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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and agency of enslaved black people in Morocco ...

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Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923

The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society. Yet Herero society reemerged, reorganizing itself around the structures a...

6:56 AM

Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition

The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteent...

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Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two

The Republic of Sudan gained its independence from Britain on the 1st of January 1956 an event which brought an end to decades of coloni...

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The Logbooks: Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory

In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, We...

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The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America

Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species. To many in the age of Obama, Americ...

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American Warlord: A True Story

Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the a...

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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising co...

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Slavery in the Arab World

"...A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today..."–Arab Book World Download L...

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Race and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan and the OttomanMediterranean: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans

In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean dest...

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The Underground Railroad in Connecticut

Here are the engrossing facts about one of the least-known movements in Connecticut’s history—the rise, organization, and operations of th...

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The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!

The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, a richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secr...

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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the h...

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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

This authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivaled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Ta...

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The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania

Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 Britons and 1,000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense f...

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Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin Ame...

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Kaiser's Holocaust the Forgotten Genocide of the Second Reich

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Emp...

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Humanitarian Photography: A History

For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise p...

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