Modern Africa — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Modern Africa

Africa: A Short History
	Collins, Robert O. Subject: Africa, Textbook	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 … More Information

African Geopolitics
	Hugon, Philippe (translated by Steve Randall) Subject: Africa, Colonial, World History	For over a thousand years, foreign powers, including the Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. In a similar way, African rulers exploited this foreign presence for their own … More Information

Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster (Updated 2008 Edition)
	Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins Subject: Africa	Images of the genocide in Darfur have shocked the Western world; upwards of 300,000 of its inhabitants have died, and another 2.5 million have become refugees. Those affected by the violence are estimated at almost 4 million, 700,000 of whom … More Information

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: Global Consequences of Local Contradictions
	Kreike, Emmanuel Subject: Africa	Colonial rule, the capitalist market, and population growth contributed to dramatic environmental changes in twentieth-century north-central Namibia. Moreover, as discussed in Jared Diamond’s acclaimed bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, biological invasions and modern technology paved the way for colonial rule, … More Information

Documents from the African Past
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa	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 … 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

The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
	Osborne, Myles (editor) Subject: Colonial Africa, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean	An important addition to the corpus on Mau Mau, this book will be a wonderful asset in the classroom, and will be welcomed by all those interested in Africa’s modern history.” — David M. Anderson, Professor of African History, University … More Information

The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988
	Collins, Robert O. Subject: African History	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 … More Information