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Heineken in Africa A Multinational Unleashed

van Beemen Olivier

ISBN: HB: 9781849049023, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
240 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presen...

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Criminology

Africa

Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit

van Vuuren Hennie

ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...

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Military

Africa

Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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Africa

Oman Politics and Society in the Qaboos State

Valeri Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781849044851, ISBN: HB: 9781850659334, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When Sultan Qaboos overthrew his father as ruler of the Persian Gulf state of Oman in 1970, with the help of British advisers, few expected him to survive long. He was unknown to his own population, and the country was poor and...

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Political Science

Military

Why Comrades Go to War Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict

Verhoeven Harry, Roessler Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849049085, ISBN: HB: 9781849046527, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara t...

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Africa

Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Volpi Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781849046961, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa. Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of "revolution...

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Military

Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Africa

Maghreb Since 1800 A Short History

Vikor Knut S.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042017, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Maghreb – the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent...

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