Research Guides: Politics: PO229

Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Political Handbook of the World 2022-2023 by Tom Lansford (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE in CQ Press
ISBN: 9781071853030
Publication Date: 2015 - Present

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Marketline Country Reports (Business Source Premier)
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CIA World Factbook
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OECD Country Reports
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History

Encyclopedia of Africa
Call Number: Click the title to access the ebook
ISBN: 9780199733903
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa by Joseph O. Vogel (Editor)
Call Number: DT2 .E53 1997
ISBN: 9780761989035
You may access this book in the library's Reference Collection.
History of African Cities South of the Sahara by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; Mary Baker
Call Number: HT148.S8 C6713 2005
ISBN: 9781558763029
This book is located in the stacks on the upper level of Geisel.
From Slave Trade to Empire: Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau (Editor)
Call Number: Click the title to access the ebook
ISBN: 9780203323090
Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa by Allen Isaacman; Richard Roberts (Editor)
Call Number: DT352.7 .C68 1995
ISBN: 9780435089665
Publication Date: 1995-08-21
This book is located in the stacks on the upper level of Geisel. The ebook is also available in the Internet Archive. Click the Title to access the ebook.

Colonization

The acquisition of Africa (1870-1914) by by Mieke van der Linden
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ISBN: 9789004321199
Being Colonized: the Kuba experience in rural Congo, 1880-1960 by Jan Vansina
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ISBN: 9780299236434
Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen M. Fallon
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ISBN: 9780801896743
Disorientations: Spanish colonialism in Africa and the performance of identity by Susan Martin-Marquez
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ISBN: 9780300152524