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  • The Waters of the Nile
    Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
    This is a history of the hydropolitics of the Nile Valley from 1900 to 1988. Attempts to develop the Nile and control its waters are of vital significance to the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and East Africa. Acute drought and heavy flooding in the Nile Basin have brought disaster in the past, and the history of the area is the story of human effort t...
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    36,14 €

  • Africa
    Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
    In the forty-five years following the 'year of African independence' from colonial rule in 1960, African and Western scholars in every discipline have un­covered myriad new facets of a rich cultural heritage preserved by ruins and the oral traditions of peoples in which the remembrance of things past was a principal dynamic of their education and cultures.This concise but sweep...
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    104,17 €

  • Requiem For The Sudan
    J Millard Burr / J. Millard Burr / Robert O Collins
    This book illustrates with great clarity the convoluted relationship that relief agencies had with the Sudanese government as they tried to negotiate the means of survival for the area’s desperate population. It explores the complex and tangled course of events in the Sudan. ...
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    267,29 €

  • The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective
    Robert O. Collins
    Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile. ...
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    268,73 €

  • Eastern African History
    Robert O. Collins
    This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes, including China’s discovery of Africa; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic slave trade; kingdoms and court life in inner east Africa; and the appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and coloni...
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    23,34 €

  • Central and South African History
    Robert O. Collins
    Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave traders on these blossoming African states. Included are reports by Portugese and English discoverers and missionaries, such as Livingston and Stanley, as well as documents about the colon...
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    23,21 €

  • Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
    David Ayalon / John Hunwick / Robert O. Collins
    Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as deracinated outsiders, described by Muslim jurists as being in a state like death, awaiting resurrection and rebirth through manumiss...
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    19,59 €

  • A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
    James. M Burns / JamesM Burns / Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
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    52,50 €

  • A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
    James. M Burns / JamesM Burns / Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
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    145,25 €

  • Western African History
    Robert O. Collins
    This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park, Heinrich Barth, René Caillé, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers such as Abd Allah ibn Muhammad and Al-Kanami, Sire Abbas Soh, and Ahmadu Hampate Ba. The trans-Saharan and cross-Atlantic slave trade...
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    23,31 €

  • Problems in the History of Modern Africa
    Robert O. Collins
    This work continues the saga begun in the first two volumes of the Problems in African History series, Problems in African History: The Precolonial Centuries and Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (both also available from Markus Wiener). With this sweeping examination of modern Africa’s challenges, Robert O. Collins brings the reader through post-colonial Africa to the pre...
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    29,53 €

  • Africa
    Robert O. Collins
    This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This approach is very useful for general readers who seek to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments, and for teachers who plan to supplement this text wit...
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    25,45 €

  • Sudan in Turmoil
    J. Millard Burr / Robert O. Collins
    Sudan was the first Islamist nation created within the larger Sunni community. The authors specifically focus on the activity of Sudanese intellectual Hasan al-Turabi, the eminence gris of the Sudanese Islamist movement and its political guide (murshid). Turabi, a prominent legal scholar and Muslim Brother, whose name is known and whose Islamist works are read throughout the Mu...
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    29,29 €

  • Documents from the African Past
    Robert O. Collins
    This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant’s guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China’s discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner East and West Africa, and the experiences of Asian and European settlers, merchants, and colonialists. Th...
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    29,19 €

  • Documents from the African Past
    Robert O. Collins
    This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant’s guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China’s discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner East and West Africa, and the experiences of Asian and European settlers, merchants, and colonialists. Th...
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    85,97 €

  • A History of Modern Sudan
    Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
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    140,88 €

  • A History of Modern Sudan
    Robert O. Collins / Robert OCollins
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    43,86 €

  • The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective
    Robert O. Collins
    Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile ...
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    90,16 €

  • Requiem For The Sudan
    J Millard Burr / J. Millard Burr / Robert O Collins
    This book illustrates with great clarity the convoluted relationship that relief agencies had with the Sudanese government as they tried to negotiate the means of survival for the area’s desperate population. It explores the complex and tangled course of events in the Sudan. ...
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    76,56 €