books by Robert O. Collins
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Robert O. Collins
The Nile
Robert O. Collins
Yale University Press
, 2002
great read
By Robert I. Rotberg The life-giving Nile of lower Egypt trickles first from two springs in Burundi and Rwanda and then meanders 4,238 miles as the White Nile through great equatorial lakes; loses itself in tangled and difficult swamps; tortuously emerges to run freely ...
Historical Problems Of Imperial Africa (Topic in World History)
Robert O. Collins
M. Wiener Pub.
, 1994
In the newest version of his "Problems" books, Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa
Classic Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Wilkie Collins
,
M. R. James
, ...
Dover Publications
, 1998
This was an excellent book!
This was a very excellent book & I had a hard time putting it down to do my chores. Very well worth the purchase!
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
Robert O. Collins,
James M. Burns
Cambridge University Press
, 2007
In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic ...
African History in Documents: Eastern African History (African History Text and Readings, Vol 2)
Robert O. Collins
M. Wiener Pub.
, 1990
Africa-From the Sources
Collins, Robert O. African History in Documents (3 vols.): Volume I - West African History (1997; Volume II - East African History (1997); Volume III - Central and Southern African History (1996). ISBN vol. 1 - 1-55876-015-6; ISBN vol. 2 - 1-55876-016-4; ISBN vol. ...
Africa: A Short History
Robert O. Collins
Markus Wiener Publishers
, 2005
A very well documented description and detailed history of Africa
Africa: A Short History by Robert O. Collins (University of California) is an informative and interesting collection of stories and historical happenings of Africa since the "year of African independence" in 1960. As a very well documented description and detailed ...
African History in Documents - Text and Readings: Vol. I: Western Africa
Robert O. Collins
M. Wiener Pub.
, 1990
West Africa's take on the book
"Nothing should diminish the fundamental value of this resource book for hard-pressed teachers, penniless students and underfunded libraries involved in the study of African history. Here is a ready-made text of readings to splendidly set a teacher on his or her way, ...
Documents from the African Past
Markus Wiener Publishers
, 2001
This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant's guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China's discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner East and West Africa, and the experiences of Asian and European settlers, ...
A History of Modern Sudan
Robert O. Collins
Cambridge University Press
, 2008
Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins, a frequent visitor ...
Problems In African History: The Precolonial Centuries
Markus Wiener Pub
, 2005
Updated and enlarged edition This collection covers the major problems in the field, including classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt Bantu Origins and Migration African States and Trade Islam ...
THE FOURTH (4th) FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT GHOST STORIES (4) Four: The Accident; Not on the Passenger List; the ...
Robert (editor) (Ann Bridge; Barry Pain; Oscar Wilde; Vincent O'Sullivan; Alexander Pushkin; Desmond MacCarthy; Hugh Walpole; Eric Ambrose; M. R. James; Saki; William Wilkie Collins) Aickman
Fontana Books
, 1972
Good collection in a great series
Throughout the two decades from 1964 to 1984, Fontana published a remarkable skein of ghost story collections, piloted by R. Aikman and later by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean supernatural authors themselves. Some of the paperbacks in this series, which winds its way up to ...
Problems in African History
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs NJ
, 1969
A large collection of readings on various subject in African History, such as: Africa and Egypt, Bantu Origins and Migrations, Nilotic Origins and Migrations, The Historian and Stateless Societies, African States, Trade in Precolonial Africa, and The African Slave Trade.
Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan
Robert O. Collins
Tsehai Publishers
, 2005
Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan is a collection of twenty essays written over forty years between 1962 and 2004 on the Sudan, southern Sudan and Darfur. Throughout these four decades civil war has raged in the southern Sudan that has cost more than two million dead and another six million refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. No one ...
Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster
J. Millard Burr
, Robert O. Collins
Markus Wiener Publishers
, 2008
Back Cover Text
Images of the genocide in Darfur have shocked the Western world: Upwards of 300,000 of its inhabitants have died, and another 2.5 million have become refugees. Those affected by the violence are estimated at almost 4 million, 700,000 of whom are now beyond the reach of ...
Requiem For The Sudan: War, Drought, And Disaster Relief On The Nile
J. Millard Burr
, Robert O Collins
Westview Press
, 1994
After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern Sudanese, who identify with their Middle Eastern neighbors, and the Southern Sudanese, who are of African heritage, erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious civil war, with its Arab militias and widespread use of automatic weapons, has devastated the populace. ...
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