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Amilcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
ISBN: HB: 9781787381445, Hurst Publishers, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgent...
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£30,00
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Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace
ISBN: HB: 9780300197396, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus., 5 figures, 2 maps
The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Sus...
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£20,00
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Sudan 1885
ISBN: PB: 9781922132994, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
200 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm
The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britains Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns wa...
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£9,00
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Gaza as Metaphor
ISBN: PB: 9781849046244, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza:...
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£20,00
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Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...
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£16,00
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History of South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300189353, Yale University Press, February 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm
A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations...
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£16,99
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Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...
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£30,00
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Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...
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£26,50
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