MU Libraries New Books: History - Africa

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5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Approaching African history / Michael Brett. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: DT19 .B74 2013

Attachment to abandoned heritage : the case of Suakin, Sudan / Shadia Taha. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DT159.9.S28 T34 2013

Foreign intervention in Africa : from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola University, Maryland. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Review

Advance praise: 'This book is a meticulously researched study that brings together a vast body of literature in a clear and accessible way and is written by one of the leading scholars of her generation. Above all else it underscores how critical foreign intervention has been in shaping the arc of recent history throughout the continent.' Allen Isaacman, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota

Advance praise: 'Foreign Intervention in Africa, Elizabeth Schmidt's survey of external meddling in the internal affairs of African countries from the era of decolonization and the Cold War to the present period of the 'war against terror' is a masterpiece. It provides to both academics and the general public a comprehensive and very readable account of foreign interventions and their mostly negative consequences for the target nations. It also offers a new and fascinating analysis of intracontinental intervention by governments seeking to take advantage of state collapse in a neighboring country to loot its natural resources.' Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Call #: DT31 .S32 2013

The métis of Senegal : urban life and politics in French West Africa / Hilary Jones. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DT549.9.S24 J66 2013

The yearning for relief : a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / by Klaas van Walraven. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DT547.75 .W35 2013

Al-Shabaab in Somalia : the history and ideology of a militant Islamist group, 2005/2012 / Stig Jarle Hansen. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DT407.4 .H36 2013

Crossing the Zambezi : the politics of landscape on a Central African frontier / JoAnn McGregor. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DT1190.Z36 M34 2009

The post-colonial state and civil war in Sudan : the origins of conflict in Darfur / by Noah R. Bassil. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DT159.6.D27 B38 2013

The Red Sea in pharaonic times: recent discoveries along the Red Sea coast proceedings of the colloquium held in Cairo / Ayn Soukhna 11th-12th January 2009 / edited by Pierre Tallet and El-Sayed Mahfouz. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DT61 .R36 2012

Gold and gold mining in ancient Egypt and Nubia : geoarchaeology of the ancient gold mining sites in the Egyptian and Sudanese eastern deserts / Rosemarie Klemm, Dietrich Klemm. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DT62.M5 K54 2013

What rebels want : resources and supply networks in wartime / Jennifer M. Hazen. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DT516.826 .H39 2013

Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DT510.43.D34 M33 2013

David Livingstone : the unexplored story / Stephen Tomkins. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: DT1110.L58 T66 2013

Espaces et territoires de l'Egypte gréco-romaine : actes des journées d'étude, 23 juin 2007 et 21 juin 2008 / réunis par Gilles Gorre et Perrine Kossmann. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DT92 .E837 2013

The last blank spaces : exploring Africa and Australia / Dane Kennedy. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Kennedy sorts through a far more complicated and messy history of 19th-century British exploration than the record has assumed, taking into account much failure as well as a deep reliance on indigenous help. The author asserts that the first British explorers of Australia and Africa looked to the vast continents much as the seafaring explorers had regarded the sea before them, as great unknown oceans, blank spaces to be 'measured, mapped, quantified, classified, catalogued, and compared.' ...Kennedy teases out a fascinating comparative study of Australian versus African exploration that takes into account the early British settlers' colonies in the former and the richly entrenched indigenous societies and forbidding disease environment in the latter...A wealth of research for the armchair traveler and historian. (Kirkus Reviews 20130115)

Triumphalist narratives of European trailblazers leave out complexity and conflict, along with the contributions of indigenous peoples, according to this probing social history of 19th-century imperialist British exploration...Kennedy shrewdly dissects the ideology of exploration as the adventurous standard-bearer of progress and sets it against the record of British explorers confronting sophisticated, canny, contentious locals with their own agendas and formidable resources. These locals helped, thwarted, and sometimes even took command of European expeditions. Kennedy's erudite yet highly readable study restores much of the nuance and drama that has been airbrushed out of standard accounts of Western exploration. (Publishers Weekly 20130114)

Call #: DT3 .K36 2013

Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon : a royal life / Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DT92 .C37 2013

Between man and beast : an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm / Monte Reel. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DT356.D88 R44 2013

Contemporary Africa's growth and development : issues, paradox and solutions / Agyemang Attah-Poku. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Review

This volume critically, cogently, and comprehensively explains Africa’s growth and development paradox, and effectively addresses pertinent solutions as well.
(Yaw Acheampong Amoateng, Ph.D., director of Child, Youth, Family and Social Programs, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa )

A vivid, comprehensive and timely analysis of contemporary growth, development and stability situation in Africa.
(Mohamed A. Nur-Awaleh, Ph.D., associate professor, Illinois State University )

A truly analytical, scholarly, excellent and wholistic investigation into the growth and development paradox and its potentially great solutions.
(Adeline Apena, Ph.D., Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn; former associate professor, Russell Sage College ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Call #: DT30.5 .A887 2013

Rat roads : one man's incredible journey / Jacques Pauw. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DT450.443.G44 R38 2012

The tomb of Iniuia in the New Kingdom necropolis of Memphis at Saqqara / by Hans D. Schneider with the collaboration of Barbara Greene Aston, Jacobus van Dijk, Christine Dijkstra, Rutger Perizonius and Eugen Strouhal with photographs by Peter Jan Bomh (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: DT73.S3 S36 2012

Third world colonialism and strategies of liberation : Eritrea and East Timor compared / Awet Tewelde Weldemichael. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DT397 .W45 2013

Conflict and costume the Herero tribe of Namibia / Jim Naughten. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DT1558.H47 N38 2013

Julius Nyerere, Africa's titan on a global stage : perspectives from Arusha to Obama / Ali A. Mazrui and Lindah L. Mhando. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DT448.25.N9 M37 2012

Tunisia since the Arab conquest : the saga of a westernized Muslim state / Jacob Abadi. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DT254 .A33 2013

Searching for Zion / Emily Raboteau. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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From Publishers Weekly

"In this profound and accessible meditation on race, novelist (The Professor’s Daughter) and scholar Raboteau depicts her travels from Israel and Jamaica to Africa and the Deep South in search of the elusive African-American notion of “home.”" —Publishers Weekly

Call #: DT16.5 .R32 2013

Songs and secrets / Barry Gilder. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: DT1949.G55 A3 2012

Amazing Africa = Incroyable Afrique / Pascal Maitre [edited by Jean-Luc Marty translation: Michael Stührenberg]. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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About the Author

Pascal Maitre started his career as a photo journalist in 1979 at the publishing house Groupe Jeune Afrique. He has worked for magazines such as 'GEO', 'Paris Match', 'L'Express', 'Stern' and 'National Geographic'. His pictures have been shown in exhibitions around the globe, including four times at the most prestigious photo festival for reportage Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan. Pascal Maitre's countless awards include the Photojournalism National Magazine Award 2010, USA. Lois Lammerhuber is a photographer and publisher. His perception of photography has been shaped by his close cooperation with 'GEO' magazine, a co-operation that started in 1984 and is still going on today. His photos have been published in hundreds of books and magazines and received international prizes. Three times he was awarded the Graphis Photo Award for the best reportage of the year. In 1996, he founded the Edition Lammerhuber publishing company, where many of his books have found international acclaim. Lois Lammerhuber is a member of the Art Directors Club New York. Jean-Luc Marty was editor-in-chief of 'GEO' France from 1994 to 2010. Michael Stuhrenberg is an author and the travel partner of Pascal Maitre.

Call #: DT4.5 .M34 2012

Dancing with the gods : essays in Ga ritual / Marion Kilson. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DT510.43.G3 K55 2013

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate : AD 500-1000 / Timothy Power. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Timothy Power is the lecturer in Islamic archaeology at the University College London, Qatar. He was previously a consultant to the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage. He has worked on numerous archaeological excavations in Egypt, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates.

Call #: DT39 .P69 2012

African migrations : patterns and perspectives / edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DT16.5 .A345 2012

Cape lives of the eighteenth century / Karel Schoeman. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DT1813 .S358 2011