A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.

the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa

The Zulu War of 1879 was the most brutal and controversial British imperial conflict of the 19th century. Ill conceived and incompetently executed it served no useful purpose for the British who started it.

An epic, sweeping history of the making of South Africa by the bestselling and acclaimed author of The State of Africa.

A cultural interpretation of South Africa's colonial history, specifically the Cape Colony, between 1750 and 1870.

A history of the conquest and servitude of the Khoisan in the Cape eastern frontier.

A cultural interpretation of South Africa's colonial history, specifically the Cape Colony, between 1750 and 1870.

Comprehensive social history, drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, of the years from the overthrow of the Mamluk Sultanate to the beginning of Egypt's modern period.

Provides an account of author Anthony Trollope's travels around South Africa when British rule was being challenged by the native peoples. The author relates a history of the Dutch and British colonial rule imposed over them as well as descriptions of the people, the architecture, the landscape and the sights and sounds of late 19th South Africa.

This volume examines the key battles of both Boer Wars, and the principal sieges of the second Boer War: Kimberley; Ladysmith; and Mafeking. It provides a summary of the guerilla war that the British fought, explaining how the need for camouflage became realised.

This book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with a provincial Ottoman elite which was only gradually becoming Egyptian.

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.

First published in 1816, Robert Adams's story is here examined in its historical context.

The first full study of Wala history and society, which will be of interest to Africanists, Islamic studies specialists and historians of colonialism.

Social and economic history of Mauritius of interest to scholars of slavery and plantation systems.

An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.

First published in 1816, Robert Adams's story is here examined in its historical context.