The Literature Police

Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
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Hardback, Mar 2009
ISBN13: 9780199283347ISBN10: 0199283346
A fascinating account of the inner workings of literary censorship carried out in the name of one of the most repressive regimes of the post-war era, and of the cultural resistance it inspired


An Empire Divided

Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914
$24.95
Paperback, Jul 2008
ISBN13: 9780195374018ISBN10: 0195374010
An award-winning book, An Empire Divided tells the story of how troubled relations between Catholic missionaries and a host of republican critics shaped colonial policies, Catholic perspectives, and domestic French politics in the tumultuous decades before the First World War.


The Changing Face of Christianity

Africa, the West, and the World
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Paperback, Feb 2005
ISBN13: 9780195177282ISBN10: 0195177282
Offers a total reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression.


Slavery and the British Empire

From Africa to America
$45.00
Paperback, Jan 2008
ISBN13: 9780192892911ISBN10: 0192892916
Slavery and the British Empire is the ideal introductio to the history of British involvement in the slave trade.


The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

$24.95
Paperback, Dec 1999
ISBN13: 9780195134285ISBN10: 0195134281
A moving and eloquent look at Africa from Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka


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