Forthcoming African History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Jessica Achberger

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their...

   To Be Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Ambiguities of Empire

   Essays in Honour of Andrew Porter

   Edited by Robert Holland, Sarah Stockwell

   This book comprises essays offered by friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Andrew Porter, on the occasion of his retirement from the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The contributors, including many distinguished historians, explore through a...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Iconography of Independence

   'Freedoms at Midnight'

   Edited by Robert Holland, Susan Williams, Terry Barringer

   This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Antebellum Slave Narratives

   Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

   By Jermaine O. Archer

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

   Edited by Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar

   This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers,...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Nefer

   The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

   By Willie Cannon-Brown

   Series: African Studies

   This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Kwame Essien

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Global History of the Developing World

   By Christopher White

   A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book centralizes the struggle for self-determination in an attempt to understand how the current nation-states...

   To Be Published September 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Securing Africa

    Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Charles Thomas

    Series: Routledge African Studies

    Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider...

    To Be Published September 24th 2013 by Routledge