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Infinite Repertoire On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea

Cohen Adrienne J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226781020, ISBN: HB: 9780226762845, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how d...

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Africa

African States since Independence Order, Development, and Democracy

Christensen Darin, Laitin David D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226614, Yale University Press, July 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 85 black&white illus.

Authors Christensen and Laitin argue that an interplay of geographic, historical, and demographic factors undergird sub-Saharan states' post?independence struggles to eradicate poverty, establish democratic accountability, and quell civil unrest. The...

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Africa

Addis Ababa Massacre Italy's National Shame

Campbell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781849046923, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
440 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, "repression squads" of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceles...

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Middle East

Africa

Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994

Clarno Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...

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Political Science

Africa

Horn of Africa State Formation and Decay

Clapham Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048286, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contempo...

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Africa

Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

Copnall James

ISBN: PB: 9781849048309, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011 two new nations came into being. In South Sudan the joy of independence vanished quickly: the former rebel movement ruling...

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Military

Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Africa

Little Mogadishu Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub

Carrier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849044752, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nairobi's Eastleigh estate has undergone profound change over the past two decades. Previously a quiet residential zone, the arrival of vast numbers of Somali refugees catalysed its transformation into 'Little Mogadishu', a glo...

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Africa

Political Science

Guinea-Bissau Micro-State to "Narco-State"

Chabal Patrick, Green Toby

ISBN: PB: 9781849045216, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked to its emergence as West Africa's first "narco-state". Yet what does this mean for the country and the nature of the state in postcoloni...

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Military

Africa

Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

Cole Peter, McQuinn Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849043090, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e...

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