Empire State-Building

Joanna Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change. It asks... Lees meer

Developing Uganda

Hölger Bernt Hansen

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense c... Lees meer

Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History

Helge Kjekshus

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• This pioneering book was one of the first to place the history of East Africa within the context of the environment. It has been used continuously for... Lees meer

Swahili Origins

James de Vere Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few historic peoples whose identity is as elusive as that of the Swahili. S... Lees meer

Cultivating Success in Uganda

Grace Carswell

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Kigezi, a district in southwestern Uganda, is exceptional in many ways. In contrast to many other parts of the colonial world, this district did not a... Lees meer

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more impor... Lees meer

Mau Mau from Below

Greet Kershaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• John Lonsdale says in his introduction: "This is the oral evidence of the Kikuyu villagers with whom Greet Kershaw lived as an aid worker during the M... Lees meer

Jua Kali Kenya

Kenneth King

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Kenya was where the term "informal sector" was first used in 1971. During the 1980s the term "jua kali" -- in Swahili "hot sun" -- came to be used of ... Lees meer

Education in the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990

Lene Buchert

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Deals with the realities of education in a debt-ridden African country trying to cope with the pressures of externally imposed educational budgets. Lees meer

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa

Richard Reid

• Hardcover | Eastern African Studies
• Suitable for those interested in military history and to anyone involved in modern development and conflict resolution seeking to understand the deepe... Lees meer

Being Maasai

Thomas Spear

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Everyone "knows" the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who iden... Lees meer

Developing Uganda

Hölger Bernt Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense c... Lees meer

Leaf of Allah

Ezekiel Gebissa

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Khat is a quasi-legal psychoactive shrub, produced and marketed in the province of Harerge, Ethiopia, and widely consumed throughout Northeast Africa.... Lees meer

In Search of a Nation

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• The double-sided nature of African nationalism--its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate--are explore... Lees meer

In Search of a Nation

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• The double-sided nature of African nationalism--its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate--are explore... Lees meer

Mau Mau and Nationhood

E S Atieno Odhiambo

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency, Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. Mau Mau and Na... Lees meer

Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970

Erik Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues... Lees meer

Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa

Mats Widgren

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Islands of intensive agriculture are areas of local cultivation surrounded by low-density livestock herders or extensive cultivators. Along the line o... Lees meer

Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia

Oyvind M Eide, ØYvind M Eide

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Studies of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution have hitherto almost completely ignored religion, in spite of the commitment of a great majority of Ethiopian... Lees meer

Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa

Eisei Kurimoto

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Age systems are involved in the competition for power. They are part of an institutional complex that makes societies fit to wage war. This book argue... Lees meer

Penetration and Protest in Tanzania

Isaria N Kimambo

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• The originality of this study of rural transformation stems from the way in which Professor Kimambo has used the oral tradition to reveal the history ... Lees meer

Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003

Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Winner of the 2007 Aidoo-Snyder Scholarly Book Prize This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women an... Lees meer

Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa

Eisei Kurimoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• Age systems are involved in the competition for power. They are part of an institutional complex that makes societies fit to wage war. This book argue... Lees meer

Brothers at War

Tekeste Negash

• Paperback | Engels | Eastern African Studies
• The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which began in May 1998, took the world by surprise. During the war, both sides mobilized huge forces along thei... Lees meer