wyszukanych pozycji: 21
African Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780852557983 / Angielski / Miękka / 1961 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance' he was taking 'a fresh look at the oversea slave trade, the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration - forced migration - in the history of man.' BR> North America: Times/Random House
Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circ...
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129,62 zł |
Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah
ISBN: 9781847010100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah seized opportunities to lead the countries of sub-Saharan Africa away from colonialism. In 1957, he became the first Prime Minister of Ghana. By the time he was overthrown in a coup in 1966 most African countries, outside the settler-dominated South, had also achieved independence. ' As a visionary Nkrumah was ahead of his times, with an astute understanding of colonialism that made the twin goals of socialism at home (Ghana) and African unity the abiding principles of his work and life.... Nkrumah's monumental role and place in modern Ghana's history mystifies...
Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah seized opportunities to lead the countries of sub-Saharan Africa away from colonialism. In 1957, he became the first Prim...
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129,62 zł |
The African Genius
ISBN: 9780852557990 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A general social and cultural history of Africa.
A general social and cultural history of Africa.
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129,62 zł |
Africa in History
ISBN: 9780684826677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe and America, as well as the development of specific areas, tribes and cultures. From accounts of the days of the green Sahara and the great iron age, the earliest Portuguese colonization, the...
Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "ci...
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125,72 zł |
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74
ISBN: 9781783605644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Basil Davidson ranks as one of the most remarkable Africanist historians of his generation. A leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first-hand, Davidson draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. The result, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky, still stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
Less well... Basil Davidson ranks as one of the most remarkable Africanist historians of his generation. A leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed man...
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119,25 zł |
Lost Cities of Africa
ISBN: 9780852557976 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The "New York Review of Books" has praised Basil Davidson as "the most effective popularizer of African history and archeology outside Africa, and certainly the one best trusted in Black Africa itself." "The Lost Cities of Africa" was the first book published in Davidson's highly praised series on African culture. Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
The "New York Review of Books" has praised Basil Davidson as "the most effective popularizer of African history and archeology outside Africa, and cer...
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134,81 zł |
Unity and Struggle
ISBN: 9780853456254 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cabral is among the great figures of our time these texts provide the evidence. "Cabral is among the great figures of our time these texts provide the evidence. " |
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158,08 zł |
The African Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780316174381 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,81 zł |
Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah
ISBN: 9780367003586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a balanced view about a charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah during an exciting period of history in Ghana. It discusses the failure of Nkrumah's means and abilities to meet the challenge of his aims from the standpoint of Ghana's welfare.
This book provides a balanced view about a charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah during an exciting period of history in Ghana. It discusses the failure o...
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700,25 zł |
Black Man's Burden
ISBN: 9780852557006 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to the colonial years and the parallels with events in Eastern Europe. North America: Times/Random House
Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to the colonial years and the parallels with events in Eas...
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129,62 zł |
Scenes from Anti-Nazi War
ISBN: 9780853455882 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this lively and instructive memoir of his experience with the anti-Nazi underground in Italy and Yugoslavia during World War II, Basil Davidson throws needed light on a much-neglected part of European history. Sent to the area as a representative of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), he is able to recount at first hand the intense determination of the revolutionary partisans, who hoped that their sacrifices would lead to a new society, and the equally determined policy of the Allies to suppress them.
In this lively and instructive memoir of his experience with the anti-Nazi underground in Italy and Yugoslavia during World War II, Basil Davidson thr...
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127,72 zł |
West Africa before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850
ISBN: 9780582318533 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting...
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280,05 zł |
Alt-Afrika Wiederentdeckt
ISBN: 9783112481158 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1963 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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470,51 zł |
The African Genius
ISBN: 9780821416051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that may emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn by the upheaval of colonialism's dismantlement. Davidson disputes the notion that Africa gained under colonialism by entering the modern world. He sees, instead, an ancient order replaced by modern dysfunction. Davidson's depiction of the sophisticated native genius that has carried Africans through centuries of change is...
The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson po...
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134,81 zł |
The Lost Cities of Africa
ISBN: 9780316174312 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, f...
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108,37 zł |
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74
ISBN: 9781786990662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Basil Davidson's unsurpassed study of the struggle against colonial rule in Gunea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Basil Davidson's unsurpassed study of the struggle against colonial rule in Gunea-Bissau and Cape Verde
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440,90 zł |
SEARCH FOR AFRICA
ISBN: 9780852557143 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that context, the author's own development. People who have been involved all their lives with Africa will be reminded of how many times Basil Davidson has given them new insights. People who approach the study of Africa for the first time will find this collection opens out their perceptions. North America: Times/Random House
These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that context, the author's own ...
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129,62 zł |
Modern Africa: A Social and Political History
ISBN: 9780582212886 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the Third Edition of a famous book first published in 1983. Written in the shadow of the many crises that face Africa's institutions and society today, Basil Davidson considers the origins of these problems, the fragility of Africa's nation states, and the emerging solutions she is finding to her present troubles. The book starts in the early years of the 20th century, with Africa still the property of colonial powers; moves on through the processes of decolonization and independence through to the late 1980s, and concludes with an overview, much extended for this new edition, of the...
This is the Third Edition of a famous book first published in 1983. Written in the shadow of the many crises that face Africa's institutions and socie...
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285,23 zł |
Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah
ISBN: 9780367153458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Modern Africa: A Social and Political History
ISBN: 9781138133358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows how much has been achieved since decolonization, and the mood of his new final chapter is hopeful and buoyant.
Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century....
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907,73 zł |