A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent. Stresses the diversity of Africa’s rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independ...(展开全部)

Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2 nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamic...(展开全部)

This comprehensive survey of African art discusses the art from the perspective of art history, unlike most account that tend to focus on a more anthropological interpretation. A History of Art in Africa shows how African art has developed from beliefs, traditions, and cultural and historical influences. The book challenges current perceptions of African art and presents it as ...(展开全部)

An homage to Africa's people and wildlife. Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation fo rged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most h...(展开全部)

An homage to Africa's people and wildlife. Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation fo rged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most h...(展开全部)

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, tracking the trials that the pe...(展开全部)

莫妮卡·布莱克曼·维索纳（Monica Blackmun Visonà），非洲艺术史专家，美国肯塔基大学艺术史与视觉研究助理教授，研究方向为当代非洲艺术重大议题。 罗宾·波伊纳（Robin Poynor），非洲艺术史专家，美国佛罗里达大学艺术与艺术史学院教授 ，担任美国 多家博物馆的展览顾问及策展人。 赫伯特·M.科尔（Herbert M. Cole），美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术与建筑史荣誉教授。1968-2003 年教授非洲艺术史。曾获非洲研究协会艺术委员会颁发的终身成就奖。 迈克尔·哈里斯（Michael D. Harris，第五章作者），美国埃默里大学副教授，研究方向为美国非洲裔文化。 罗兰德·艾比欧登（Rowland Abiodun，前言作者），美国阿姆赫斯特学院教授，研究方向是艺术史。 苏珊娜·普雷斯顿·布勒（Suzanne Prest...(展开全部)

莫妮卡·布莱克曼·维索纳（Monica Blackmun Visonà），非洲艺术史专家，美国肯塔基大学艺术史与视觉研究助理教授，研究方向为当代非洲艺术重大议题。 罗宾·波伊纳（Robin Poynor），非洲艺术史专家，美国佛罗里达大学艺术与艺术史学院教授 ，担任美国 多家博物馆的展览顾问及策展人。 赫伯特·M.科尔（Herbert M. Cole），美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术与建筑史荣誉教授。1968-2003 年教授非洲艺术史。曾获非洲研究协会艺术委员会颁发的终身成就奖。 迈克尔·哈里斯（Michael D. Harris，第五章作者），美国埃默里大学副教授，研究方向为美国非洲裔文化。 罗兰德·艾比欧登（Rowland Abiodun，前言作者），美国阿姆赫斯特学院教授，研究方向是艺术史。 苏珊娜·普雷斯顿·布勒（Suzanne Prest...(展开全部)

莫妮卡·布莱克曼·维索纳（Monica Blackmun Visonà），非洲艺术史专家，美国肯塔基大学艺术史与视觉研究助理教授，研究方向为当代非洲艺术重大议题。 罗宾·波伊纳（Robin Poynor），非洲艺术史专家，美国佛罗里达大学艺术与艺术史学院教授 ，担任美国 多家博物馆的展览顾问及策展人。 赫伯特·M.科尔（Herbert M. Cole），美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术与建筑史荣誉教授。1968-2003 年教授非洲艺术史。曾获非洲研究协会艺术委员会颁发的终身成就奖。 迈克尔·哈里斯（Michael D. Harris，第五章作者），美国埃默里大学副教授，研究方向为美国非洲裔文化。 罗兰德·艾比欧登（Rowland Abiodun，前言作者），美国阿姆赫斯特学院教授，研究方向是艺术史。 苏珊娜·普雷斯顿·布勒（Suzanne Prest...(展开全部)

Native life in South Africa is one of South Africa's great political books. First published in 1916, it was first and foremost a response to the Native's land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation. Native life in South Africa provides an account of the origins of this crucially important piece of legisla...(展开全部)