History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluab

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.