Africa — Markus Wiener Publishers

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The Golden Age of Islam
	Lombard, Maurice Subject: Middle East, Religion	In this book, Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reach extended from Córdoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and developed the tradition of wealth, … More Information

The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
	Bovill, E. W. Subject: Africa, World History	“This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering over [one] thousand years of trans-Saharan trade. “Finely written and researched. … This edition will no doubt whet the appetites of a fresh generation of scholars and students … More Information

The History of a Slave
	Johnston, H. H. (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy) Subject: Africa, History of Slavery	In 1889, the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston published The History of a Slave, a story of an archetypal slave based on Johnston’s extensive knowledge of North and West Africa from his travels there. The tale follows the fictitious … More Information

The History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization
	Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine (translated by Mary Baker) Subject: Africa	*Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 2005, CHOICE* Magazine** Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Congo, the harbor … More Information

The History of Islamic Theology
	Nagel, Tilman (translated by Thomas Thornton) Subject: Middle East, Religion	The book presents Muslim beliefs about God’s relationship to humans by drawing on relevant Islamic sources from Muhammad to modern times. In connection with the social and political history of Islam, the reader is introduced to the central ideas and … More Information

The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks
	Çelebi, Kâtip (edited by Svatopluk Soucek) Subject: Middle East, World History	The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story.The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story. It is a breathtaking lesson in the geography and history of that period in which the Ottoman Turks swept past … More Information

The Horrors of Slavery and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
	Wedderburn, Robert (edited by Iain MacCalman) Subject: Caribbean	Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of … More Information

The Kingdom of Kush
	Welsby, Derek A. Subject: Africa	When Rome was a small village and the Greek city-states held sway over minuscule territories, the Kushites ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine. During the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., its rulers controlled Egypt … More Information

The Last Great Muslim Empires: History of the Muslim World
	Kissling, Hans J. et al. (translated and adapted by F.R.C. Bagley) Subject: Middle East, Religion, World History	“Islamic history feeds into world history … Islamic civilization became a global phenomenon, for example, in its capacity to receive and absorb culture from one end of the world and then pass it on to other parts of the world. … More Information

The Letters and Other Writings of Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano, the African): Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade
	Sapoznik, Karlee Anne, editor (foreword by Paul Lovejoy) Subject: African Studies, Caribbean Studies, History of Slavery	Gustavus Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African) was on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement in England at the end of the eighteenth century. He provided a voice for people of African descent in the British Atlantic world. His … More Information