Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (African Studies, Series Number 111)
By: Daniel Branch
3.79
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legaci…
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1. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By: Caroline Elkins
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Only a few years after Britain's participation in the victory over fascism came the Mau Mau uprisin… read more
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2. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
By: Jason K. Stearns
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations… read more
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"As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the grea…"-Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
3. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
4. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
5. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
6. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do … read more
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7. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
By: Howard W. French
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more
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8. Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (African Studies, Series Number 111)
By: Daniel Branch
3.79
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legaci… read more
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9. African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World
By: Priya Lal
4.05
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's social… read more
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