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El brutal ascenso de un marginado transformó tácticas de guerra tribal en una implacable máquina imperial africana. Ideal para acompañar tus trayectos diarios con un aprendizaje inmersivo, esta narración histórica te transporta directamente a las inestables alianzas de las comunidades...

神格化された天才の伝説を解体し、南部アフリカを席巻した軍事帝国の興亡を社会構造から紐解く、極上の歴史ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤時間や知的な探求を深めたい夜のリラックスタイムに、激動の時代を生き...

Sumérgete en diez momentos cruciales de la historia africana donde imperios, guerras y resistencia forjaron una región. Ideal para acompañar tu trayecto diario, esta narración reflexiva desafía los mitos coloniales para mostrarte la verdadera evolución sociopolítica del sur del continente...

インド洋の海風が吹き抜けるスワヒリ海岸から、生命が躍動するセレンゲティの平原まで、交易と支配が交錯するアフリカ史の深淵を紐解く壮大な歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is known universally for the gentle charm of Le Petit Prince, but it is this book, Land of Men - known originally in English as Wind, Sand and Stars - which is his masterpiece. First published in 1939, it documents Saint-Exupéry's life as a pilot in the pioneering days...

見渡す限りの不毛な砂が広がる世界最大の砂漠は、かつて生命の息吹に満ちた水と緑の大草原だったという壮大な環境史の謎を紐解きます。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや毎日の通勤中、イヤホン越しに広がるのは、失わ...

エジプト文明の周縁という常識を打ち破る古代ナイルの覇者「黒人ファラオ」の栄光から、現代の国家建設の苦悩まで、アフリカ史を揺るがす巨大な興亡の軌跡を描き出します。毎日の通勤のひとときや教養を深めたい静...

広大なサハラを越える壮大な交易ネットワークから、現代を揺るがす石油利権と紛争の渦へ、一千年におよぶアフリカ大陸における帝国の興亡と変転の歴史を鮮やかに描き出します。現在の国境線という固定された枠組み...

サハラ砂漠と大河が交わる過酷な大地に築かれた黄金と書物の都が、いかにして知の集積地となり、激動のなかで叡智を守り抜いたのかを描く壮大な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤電車での知的なインプットや、静か...

苛酷なサハラの砂漠と豊かなニジェール川が交わるサヘル地帯で、黄金と塩の交易が築き上げた帝国の栄華と、現代国家が直面する苛烈な現実という壮大な歴史のコントラストを鮮やかに浮き彫りにします。喧騒から離れ...

アパルトヘイトという過酷な分断社会の闇に抗い、非暴力から武装闘争、そして奇跡的な和解へと歩みを残した一人の人間の深い葛藤を描き出す、心を揺さぶる歴史伝記です。通勤の電車内や静かな夜の思索のひとときに...

In his 1920 book The Jews of Africa, Mendelssohn attempts to chart the separate and progressive histories of the Jews in the different parts of Africa where they lived since their expulsion from the land by the Romans. He succeeds in compiling a narrative of a large part of the histories of the Jews of Africa during the centuries following the Romans’ destruction of Jerusalem.

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post). Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...

In this classic tale of adventure, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories. Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countries' colonial heritage and tells the story of the continent's struggles with democracy through seven dictatorships.

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought...

Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company transformed Liberia into America's rubber empire. Scouring remote archives, historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war.

The fate of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power, but the Ark itself mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon. After 10 years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends - revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.