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Jews and Judaism in African History
	Hull, Richard Subject: Africa, Religion, Middle East, Jewish Studies	This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews have often been a marginalized minority, yet they have played a role … More Information

Jews of a Saharan Oasis: The Elimination of the Tamantit Community
	Hunwick, John Subject: Africa, Religion, Jewish Studies, Middle East	“Jews spread out from Israel into northern Africa after the Roman destruction of much of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and settled in Saharan oases. Although there was no love for Jews after the birth of Islam five centuries later, Muslim … More Information

Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey
	Miles, William F. S. Subject: Africa, Religion, Jewish Studies	While Jews have long had a presence in Ethiopia and the Maghreb, Africa’s newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thousand Igbos are commonly claimed to have adopted Judaism. Bolstered by customs recalling an Israelite … More Information

Lamu: History, Society, and Family in an East African Port City
	Romero, Patricia Subject: Africa, Women's History	This book depicts the history of Lamu, once an important East African port city but now known as an unspoiled tourist destination and scenic location for Hollywood movies. Records from both the distant past and the more recent period give … More Information

Leo Frobenius on African History, Art, and Culture: An Anthology
	Frobenius, Leo (edited by Eike Haberland; preface by Léopold Sédar Senghor) Subject: Africa, Archaeology, Art History	Leo Frobenius’ pivotal works on African culture represented a landmark study in ethnography. His writings, when discovered by young African intellectuals studying in Europe in the early 1900s, reverberated throughout the community of Africans in search of cultural legitimacy. Frobenius … More Information

Life in a Haitian Valley
	Herskovits, Melville J. (introduction by Sidney W. Mintz) Subject: Caribbean	This book is a precious document in the intellectual history of the black Americas. Its author was surely the first academically respectable white scholar to take seriously the cultural achievements of Afro-Americans, throughout the hemisphere. His influence is still keenly … More Information

Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants
	Levtzion, Nehemiah and Jay Spaulding, editors Subject: Africa	This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, historians, and travelers. The first reports in written Arabic sources deal with urban west African … More Information

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
	Ruete, Emily (edited by Patricia Romero) Subject: Middle East	Born a princess Sayyida on the African spice island of Zanzibar, Emily Ruete was brought up in a harem in the Sultan’s palace, naturalized as a German through marriage, and then manipulated by both Germans and British in their … More Information

Problems in African History: The Pre-Colonial Centuries (Expanded Edition)
	Iyob, Ruth and Robert O. Collins, editors Subject: African History, Pre-Colonial Africa	This updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa’s contributions to non-Western world history. The themes presented include: • … More Information

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (Vol. III in the Problems in African History Series)
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa	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 … More Information