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Books on: africa in antiquity

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Africa and Africans in Antiquity

Book by Edwin M. Yamauchi; Michigan State University, 2001

Subjects:

Africa, North--Antiquities--Congresses, Africa, North--History--To 647--Congresses, Africa--Antiquities--Congresses, Africa--History--To 1498--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. These ten thought-provoking essays demonstrate that this large region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic in antiquity, a place where Phoenicians ...
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Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. These ten thought-provoking essays demonstrate that this large region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic in antiquity, a place where Phoenicians, Berbers, Greeks, as well as Egyptians and Nubians interacted.
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A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present

Book by Patrizia Palumlo; University of California Press, 2003

Subjects:

Africa--Relations--Italy, Italy--Colonies--Africa, Italy--Relations--Africa, Popular Culture--Italy--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

"This impressive volume succeeds in bringing Italian colonialism into the space of today's most important debates regarding colonialism and multiculturalism."--Graziela Parati, author of "Mediterranean Crossroads
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"This impressive volume succeeds in bringing Italian colonialism into the space of today's most important debates regarding colonialism and multiculturalism."--Graziela Parati, author of "Mediterranean Crossroads
"A significant collection that really has no equal to date. The essays in this volume investigate profoundly the relationship between Italian colonialism and Italian society, past and present."--Anthony Tamburri, author of "A Semiotic of Rereading
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Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism

Book by G. Wesley Johnson; Greenwood Press, 1985

Subjects:

Africa, West--Civilization--French Influences, France--Civilization--West African Influences

Collections: History, Entire Library

...IMPACT DOUBLE IMPACT France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism EDITED...Reciprocal Influences between French and Africans in the Age of Imperialism by G...VI. FRENCH AND AFRICANS IN ART 237...
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Bridging the Rift: The New South Africa in Africa

Book by Larry A. Swatuk, David R. Black; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Africa--Economic Integration, Africa--Foreign Economic Relations--South Africa, South Africa--Foreign Economic Relations--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

"A welcome addition to the literature.... Highly recommended." Choice "This is a valuable & important book, well conceived & thoughtfully executed." African Affairs "Highly recommended for students & academics alike." International Affairs
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The Colonial Reckoning: The End of Imperial Rule in Africa in the Light of British Experience

Book by Margery Perham; Knopf, 1962

Subjects:

Nationalism--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

...subjugation of the heathen. It was an African empire, that of Aksum, out of which the...probably from the first century B.C. or A.D. In this the king glories in his conquest...man Empire," in Slavery in Classical Antiquity , ed. M. I. Finley Cambridge: W...

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Journal Articles on: africa in antiquity

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Africa in the World: Lessons from African History for World History

Journal article by Kathleen R. Smythe; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 29, 2004

Subjects:

African history--Study and teaching, World history--Study and teaching

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press...49) Evidence of increased disease in dense settlements and the risks associated...Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century (New York: St...
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Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity

Journal article by Maurice Hunt; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 57, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Christians of late antiquity went on pilgrimage...the local bishop in his resistance to...martyrs in North Africa. Augustine accepted...remains of North Africa pagan rites by suggesting...continued to occur in the fifth century...monastic culture of late antiquity, especially in Egypt...
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Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity

Journal article by Hugh Elton; The Historian, Vol. 65, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Christianization (Augustine, Africa, Anatolia, Spain...material culture than in previous conferences...Frontiers in Late Antiquity). In this volume...empire, and the late antiquity here is that of the...the rural Balkans in the sixth century...Clark on the North African countryside. There...
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The Geography of Edible Insects in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of the Mopane Caterpillar

Journal article by Peter Illgner, Etienne Nel; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 166, 2000

Subjects:

Africa--Food and nutrition, Caterpillars--Nutritional aspects, Insects as food--Nutritional aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the diet of rural Africans. KEY WORDS: Africa, entomophagy, food security, indigenous...One of the key features of globalization in recent decades has been the creation of...some stage in their history. Its roots in antiquity are noted in the Bible with reference...
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Denominationalism in Africa

Journal article by Sam Kobia; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 53, 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Religion, Christian sects--Africa, Christians in Africa--History, Ecumenical movement--Africa

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Missions, p.34. (11) Ibid., p.151. (12) Ibid., p. 161. (13) Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1995, p. 15. (14) M.G. Capon, Towards Unity in Kenya, Nairobi, Christian...

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Magazine Articles on: africa in antiquity

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Africa: Beyond 2000

Magazine article by Anver Versi, Tom Nevin; African Business, January 2000

Subjects:

Africa--History, African history, Business enterprises--History, Civilization, Western--History, Colonization--History, Economic development--History, Economic history--Forecasts and trends, Industrial development--Forecasts and trends, Industrialization--Forecasts and trends, International business enterprises--History, Internet services--Forecasts and trends, Multinational corporations--History, Online services--Forecasts and trends, South Africa, Western culture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...fall of civilisations. The greatest civilisation of antiquity, the civilisation that set the parameters of all our...civilisations. Historian Basil Davidson wrote, "Predominantly African in its human and cultural origins, this civilisation (Egyptian...
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The Book Famine in Africa: A Former Teacher Observes

Magazine article by Garreth Byrne; Contemporary Review, Vol. 284, April 2004

Subjects:

Africa--Educational aspects, Books--Educational aspects, Teaching--Equipment and supplies, Teaching--Personal narratives

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...texts and various school titles, some from Africa and some imported from Europe. Nearly...more years old. Regardless of their antiquity or state of dilapidation, there was a...Commerce and Science, all of them published in Britain. I then checked the original sterling...
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Paralegal Aid in Africa: A Case Study from Malawi

Magazine article by Adam Stapleton; Corrections Today, Vol. 64, February 2002

Subjects:

Criminal justice, Administration of--Africa, Malawi--Correctional institutions, Prisoners--Care and treatment, Prisons--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...to enter a prison in the English-speaking...portion of sub-Saharan Africa, the first thing...you would be the antiquity of the institution...prison population in Africa, present no security...Prison Conditions in Africa, which describes...
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Africa Cries for a New Birth - Mandela

Magazine article by Anver Versi; African Business, July 1994

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, Mandela, Nelson--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...undefiled humility and when he spoke, his words rang with an uncluttered purity: "In the distant days of antiquity," said Mandela, "a Roman sentenced this African city (Tunis) to death: Carthage must be destroyed, Carthago delenda est! "In the...
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Roman Africa: The Economic and Political Fault Lines That Separated Carthage and Numidia Are the Ones That Separate Tunisia and Algeria - and the Romans Drew Them

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, June 2001

Subjects:

Tunisia--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...relevance of antiquity to contemporary politics in Arab North Africa. Le Kef...like North Africa and less...Europe. In antiquity Numidia lay...and Roman "Africa" were constantly...fact that in 1995 Tunisia...has since antiquity, to Rome.

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Newspaper Articles on: africa in antiquity

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EU Expansion Concerns Five-Nation Arab Bloc; N. Africa Fears Potential Neglect

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 12, 2003

Subjects:

European Union

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Mediterranean - known in antiquity as "Mare Nostrum...actively participate in Europes development...shore. Some North African officials believe that...with European and North African officials Oct. 30 in Saint-Symphorien-le...
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Wellesley Historian Calls Afrocentrism Mythology in Book: She Rejects White-Racism Charges

Newspaper article by Carol Innerst; The Washington Times, March 6, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...among the colleges where students were being taught "strange stories" about ancient Greece in a course called "Africans in Antiquity." "I had always thought that the course was about historical Africa," she writes. "But now as a result of my...
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Republic of Sudan

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2001

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the largest country of the African continent. Northern Sudan...was settled by Egyptians in antiquity, and was converted to Coptic Christianity in the 6th Century. Arab conquests brought Islam in the 15th century. In the 1820s...
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50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Weekly Trivia Quiz

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...town on Sunday? 2 Which great city of antiquity is now a suburb of the city of Tunis...forced replays with Premiership clubs in the third round of the FA Cup at the weekend...first" when a ship was sinking off South Africa in 1854 with only three working lifeboats...
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Europe Tightens Arab Migration Rules

Newspaper article by Andrew Borowiec; The Washington Times, November 14, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...immigrants from North Africa, an international conference...Immigrants already in Western Europe are said...across the sea known in antiquity as "mare nostrum...said 30 percent of North Africans living in Western Europe are unemployed...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa in antiquity

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Red Sea

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity. Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Red Sea one of the chief shipping...
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Afroasiatic Languages

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...origin of proto-Semitic is still disputed: Africa, Arabia, and Mesopotamia are the most...singular or by an internal vowel change, as in Arabic kitab, "book," and kutub...12th cent. b.c., was called Ugarit in antiquity, the language discovered there was named...
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Greek Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...having come as invaders from the north. In antiquity there were a number of dialects of the...and Ionic. Ancient Greek was prevalent in the Balkan peninsula, the Greek islands...regions and in parts of Asia Minor and Africa for many centuries. Most of the New Testament...
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Vineyard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...viticulture was widespread in the Mediterranean region in antiquity. Large areas of France, Italy, the Rhineland, Spain...hospitable to V. vinifera, which also flourished in Greece, North Africa, the Canary Islands, and the Azores. In a.d. 81 Emperor...
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African Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...textiles and in the ornamentation of everyday tools, were a vital art in nearly all African cultures. The lack of archaeological excavations restricts knowledge of the antiquity of African art. As the value of these works was inseparable from their...

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