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Africa

African Kaiser Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa

Gaudi Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781849048675, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches o...

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Africa

Why Europe Intervenes in Africa Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism

Gegout Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9781849046930, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Why Europe Intervenes in Africa" analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who h...

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General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Africa

Why Occupy a Square? People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution

Gunning Jeroen, Baron Ilan Zvi

ISBN: PB: 9781849042659, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How...

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Africa

Songs and Secrets South Africa from Liberation to Governance

Gilder Barry

ISBN: HB: 9781849042376, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's de...

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Africa

Afrikaners Biography of a People

Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9781849041485, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
698 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Afrikaners: Biography of A People", the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on – and critical of – the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author's own research and interviews conducted with lead...

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Christianity

Africa

Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya

Gifford Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781850659358, ISBN: HB: 9781850659341, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also sai...

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Africa

Military

Dirty War in West Africa The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

Gberie Lansana

ISBN: PB: 9781850657422, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...

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Christianity

Africa

African Christianity Its Public Role

Gifford Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781850653356, Hurst Publishers, June 1998
484 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This text analyses African Christianity in the mid-1990s, against the background of the continent's current social, economic and political circumstances. Paul Gifford employs concepts taken from political economy to shed light...

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