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In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's “Elect,” chosen to rule over the continent. Their saga—bloody, ferocious, and fervent—would culminate three centuries later in one of the greatest tragedies of history: the establishment of a...

発売日: 2009-11-03 ¥2,000

A fearless act of journalism in 1960s Nigeria and the true story behind the international bestselling novel The Dogs of War .   The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of suffering and the scale of atrocity being played out in the African continent. This was thanks not just to advances in communication technology but to the courage and journalistic skills of foreign correspondents like F...

発売日: 2015-03-21 ジャンル:歴史 ¥1,400

This uplifting true story is now a major film, starring Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, directed by Clint Eastwood. Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2008 As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks faced New Zealand's all-conquering All Blacks, more was at stake than a sporting trophy. When Nelson Mandela appeared wearing a Springboks jersey and led the all-white Afrikaner-dominated team in singing South Africa's new nation...

発売日: 2012-08-01 ¥660

グレートジンバブウェの石壁は、蛇のように曲がりくねりながら、多数の入り組んだ空間を作りだしている。直線や直角を嫌い、規則とか定型の類を退けるその姿は、思わずポストモダンと形容したくなるほど、乱雑、気まぐれ、あいまいであって、かつまた、のびやかで優雅な雰囲気をたたえている。(中略)個人の居住空間のかたちは、内部分割に適した四角形になると...

発売日: 1999-10-20 ¥660

Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name ‘Timbuktu’ long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fev...

発売日: 2017-05-04 ¥750

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life d...

発売日: 1991-04-03 ¥1,400

For 30 centuries, before Greece's glory or Rome's grandeur came into being, mankind played out a drama along the banks of the Nile which for sheer splendor, mighty works, and significance to civilization, is unique. The lure of Egyptology is as old as the Pyramids themselves; what is new is the modern work done in the field. Few books make so up-to-date and thorough a survey of what is known, in a form suited for the general reader, as this fine work, first published as recently as 1952, and now...

発売日: 2013-01-17 ¥1,000

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first black President. SOUTH AFRICA: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a lively account of the formation o...

発売日: 2012-04-05 ¥250

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that reserved the most prosperous areas for whites and the most desolate and backward for blacks, was reunited...

発売日: 1999-02-22 ¥1,400

À cinq mois de la fin de la guerre d'Algérie, le 17 octobre 1961, Paris a connu le plus grand massacre de gens du peuple depuis la Semaine sanglante de 1871. Des dizaines de milliers d'Algériens manifestant sans armes ont été violemment réprimés par des policiers aux ordres du préfet Maurice Papon, faisant probablement plus de deux cents morts. Et pendant une trentaine d'années, ce drame a été " oublié ". Pourtant, dès l'époque, des femmes et hommes courageux ont tenté de le faire...

発売日: 2021-10-07 ジャンル:歴史 ¥1,000

A collection of the speeches given by the emperor during his extended reign

発売日: 2020-07-02 ¥100

Après 1988, l'Algérie a connu plus de dix ans d'une terrible guerre à la suite de l'interruption par l'armée de la première expérience démocratique du monde arabe qui a brièvement profité au Front islamique du salut (FIS). Dans les années 2000, l'Algérie d'Abdelaziz Bouteflika a lentement retrouvé la paix grâce à la rente des hydrocarbures, mais au prix d'une absence de justice et du mensonge. À l'armée, principale détentrice du pouvoir, se sont alors agrégés de plus en plus l...

発売日: 2020-06-04 ¥1,100

De 1954 à 1962, quelque deux millions de Français ont fait la guerre aux Algériens. Soixante ans après, cette " guerre sans nom " reste une page blanche de l'histoire nationale. Et le refoulement de sa mémoire continue à ronger comme une gangrène les fondements mêmes de la société française. De l'autre côté de la Méditerranée, un refoulement symétrique mine la société algérienne : la négation par l'histoire officielle de pans entiers de la guerre de libération n'est pas pour...

発売日: 2020-05-14 ジャンル:歴史 ¥1,800

The Kingdom of Kush and the ancient Nubian civilization, in general, are important not only for their achievements but also for what these achievements represent in the abstract. The existence of such civilizations challenges many traditional, Eurocentric views of the world and its history. Of course, ancient Egypt is impressive enough on its own, but Nubia is even further south and further away from European influence and, in that sense, more African. Neighboring Ethiopia and numerous other loc...

発売日: 2020-04-25 ¥400

If you're familiar with Mansa Musa you might expect the headline to read, 'Mansa Musa – the wealthiest person that ever lived.' But in reality, he was more than just a rich person. Every source or article would either emphasize the subject of Mansa Musa and his wealth, or his famous pilgrimage to Mecca. Even though his Hajj expedition was fascinating due to the numerous events that occurred during the journey, there are many more interesting stories about his life. This book is about how he to...

発売日: 2020-03-10 ¥400

'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks 'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose.' The Times Shortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the Year _________________________________________________ This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted. That day, over 160,000 Allied tro...

発売日: 2020-09-03 ジャンル:歴史 ¥1,200

Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on: ‘The Rest Test’, the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. The survey revealed how people get rest and how it is directly linked to yo...

発売日: 2019-11-21 ¥1,100

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanonís masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Saidís Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology...

発売日: 2015-04-22 ¥1,100

This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the political economy of post-conflict economic recovery in Rwanda and Burundi. These two countries, located in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, are commonly referred to as twins. They are relatively similar in size; are landlocked; have a similar topography, population density, ethnic composition, culture, and language; and share a colonial legacy as well as a tragic his...

発売日: 2018-08-16 ¥880

In A Short History of South Africa , Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s history, from the very beginning to the present day, from the first evidence of hominid existence, early settlement pre- and post-European arrival and the warfare through the 18th and 19th centuries that lead to the eventual establishment of modern South Africa. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is a culmination...

発売日: 2019-02-15 ¥790

After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the internet on...

発売日: 2008-12-16 ¥420

The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over S...

発売日: 2015-08-11 ¥1,500

Le Maroc est probablement l’un des pays d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen Orient les plus étudiés par les sciences sociales et humaines. Motivée par la diversité objective du pays, cette faveur n’en demeure pas moins ambiguë, en ce qu’elle a contribué à consacrer l’antinomie tradition/modernité. À rebours de ce cliché, Le Maroc au présent expose plusieurs facettes des tensions qui traversent la société marocaine et montre qu’elles ne sont ni figées ni subies par les gens. E...

発売日: 2016-11-21 ¥2,000

Deneys Reitz was 17 when the Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899. Reitz describes that he had no hatred of the British people, but "as a South African, one had to fight for one's country." Reitz had learned to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk, and the skills and endurance he had acquired during those years were to be made full use of during the war. He fought with different Boer Commandos, where each Commando consisted mainly of farmers on horseback, using their own horses and g...

発売日: 2016-09-09 ¥150

Seven years ago a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline burst beneath the waters of Bodo Creek, in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta. It spewed for more than 70 days, gushing an estimated 300,000 barrels of crude oil into the creeks and rivers that were Bodo City’s lifeblood. The town’s fishery and economy were devastated. Almost a decade later, the community is still trying to recover. A landmark lawsuit settlement against the company is helping, but in Nigeria, money is never a simple matter.

発売日: 2016-05-11 ¥450

Sierra Leone is historically unique. A small part of the territory which was mainly Freetown (which was to become the capital of the whole country) and surrounding areas was acquired by the British in the late eighteenth century and used to resettle emancipated slaves and their descendants from America and Britain. That part which was formerly known as the Colony became home to a heterogeneous people (the Creoles) who would later play a significant role in the development of the country out of w...

発売日: 2016-04-06 ¥650

This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of unique, up-to-date guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Nigeria, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime, the environment, government, holidays, gender issues and much more. CHAPTER 1: GEOGRAPHY * Area * Topography * Geographic ...

発売日: 2015-10-16 ¥1,100

A study in the relationship between one department of the Colonial Office and the colonies in which it had responsibility.

発売日: 1985-04-01 ¥880

This book is a collection of Alfred Obiora Uzokwes critical commentaries about Nigerias triumphs, woes and the way forward. It brings his writings into one volume as a reference material for those conducting research about the country. It will also serve as another tool for Nigerias policy makers in their everyday quest for better decision-making. The subjects of the commentaries are diverse, including politics, aviation, infrastructure, health, welfare and economy. Nigerians are resilient and i...

発売日: 2015-08-22 ¥650

To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” ( The Washington Post ) from the author of The Falcon Thief . In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of th...

発売日: 2016-04-19 ¥1,800

Highlights from South Africa's first twenty years of freedom, from Nelson Mandela's inauguration to the 2010 World Cup. A timeline of events augmented by Sunday Times coverage.

発売日: 2014-07-01 ¥250

The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction work by the bestselling author of the James Bond series. The book is about the International Diamond Security Organization (IDSO) that was formed to stop diamond smuggling from Africa. The James Bond novel Diamonds are forever is loosely based on the information Fleming learned researching this book.

発売日: 2015-01-01 ¥100

These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Angola, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime, the environment, government, holidays, gender issues and much more. Angola in Perspective: An Orientation Guide - Chapter 1 - Geography * Country Overview * Geographic Regions and Topographic Features ...

発売日: 2014-07-17 ¥880

What does the Rosetta Stone tell us about the past? What treasures of Egyptian literature can now be read, thanks to its decipherment? What does it tell us about the history of writing and the story of our own alphabets? How do decipherments work and how can we know if they are right? Who owns the Rosetta Stone and what happens if we start to return pieces of the past to countries who claim them? These are some of the fascinating questions which are explored in this introduction to one of the tr...

発売日: 2014-08-07 ¥550

尼罗河是埃及的母亲河,是埃及人民的生命源泉,她为沿岸人民积聚了大量的财富、缔造了古埃及文明。在尼罗河沿岸就有大大小小的金字塔70多座,犹如一篇篇浩繁的“史书”,在这里蕴藏着人类文明的奥秘。本书介绍了尼罗河畔的古埃及文明的发源和发展,以及古埃及文明的重要地位。

発売日: 2014-02-11 ¥200

Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short succinct volume. Positioning the collapse of Portugal’s African Empire in the context of the region’s history since 1945, Farley asserts that this collapse set in motion a train of events that eventually led to the transition of power from minority to majority rule in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia...

発売日: 2008-02-19 ジャンル:歴史 ¥5,400

Pendant près de quatre cents ans, des millions d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants africains ont perdu leur liberté, quittant de force leur sol natal. Déportés par bateaux entiers, enchaînés pour un voyage sans retour vers l'Amérique du Nord, et les Antilles, ils furent capturés pour travailler dans des conditions inhumaines, enrichissant des hommes peu scrupuleux. Bientôt, les puissances européennes cherchèrent à justifier légalement l'esclavage des Africains. En France, le Code Noir ...

発売日: 2013-05-04 ¥750

Depuis 15 ans, Denis Mukwege, médecin chef à l’hôpital de Panzi (Sud Kivu), soigne gratuitement des femmes victimes de violences sexuelles. Au cours des 10 dernières années, il a ainsi prodigué des soins à plus de 30 000 femmes. Vagins détruits et âmes mortes. Le gynécologue recoud et répare. Denis Mukwege parcourt le monde pour témoigner de la souffrance de ces femmes et dénoncer les viols massifs, véritables armes de guerre. Pour son combat, il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont ce...

発売日: 2013-03-27 ¥1,000

*Introductory Material *Linked TOC *Linked Glossary The Defense of Duffer’s Drift is one of the most important works ever written on small unit tactics and is required reading for junior officers in military organizations around the world. It was written by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton in 1904 when Swinton was a Captain. It details a fictional encounter in the Boer War. The book is narrated by Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF) who has been left in command of 50 men to defend a f...

発売日: 2013-03-03 ¥100

Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.

発売日: 1989-07-01 ¥1,700

‘Joyous … a book that makes other journalists weep with envy’ The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written … an eloquent, brilliantly researched account’ Sunday Times One of The Economist’s best books by foreign correspondents. A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong’s vision of Congo/Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive, ironic and revelatory. Mr Kurtz,...

発売日: 2012-07-10 ¥740

Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. "An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose." --Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmate...

発売日: 2006-06-13 ジャンル:歴史 ¥1,400

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Saul David's compelling examination of one of history's greatest battles. On 22nd January, at Isandlwana in Zululand, South-East Africa, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its history. A camp of 1,700 men, armed with state-of-the-art weapons and two artillery pieces, was surprised and overwhelmed by a huge Zulu army ...

発売日: 2011-12-01 ¥350

For nearly two thousand years after the last pharaoh ruled Egypt the wonders of this ancient culture remained hidden, seemingly lost and forgotten for ever. Then, in the late eighteenth century, Napoleons invasion of the country sparked an explosion of interest in ancient Egypt that burns as strongly today as ever. The obsession with anything and everything Egyptian has inspired many to dedicate their lives to the search for treasure in Egypts sands. All of these explorers, collectors and archae...

発売日: 2010-10-31 ¥1,600

A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another. Combining his own analysis of the events with interviews from both the Hutu killers who carried out acts of unimaginable depravity and the Tutsi surviv...

発売日: 2010-03-02 ¥1,400

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the ...

発売日: 2002-03-28 ¥1,200

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analysis reveals the terrible truth behind the headlines. ‘A tender, angry account … As well as being a scathing indictment – Keane says the genocide inflicted on the Tutsis was planned well in advance by Hutu leaders – this is a graphic view of new...

発売日: 1996-04-25 ¥1,200