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Black Hawks Rising: The Story of Amisom's Successful War Against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014
ISBN: 9781910777695 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Black Hawks Rising" tells the story of the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-making mission. Many - including the author, who predicted the mission was DOA (Dead on Arrival) - gave the mission little chance of success. As a fighting force, however, AMISOM took on the Somali insurgents in 2010; expelled them from Central Mogadishu on Saturday, 6 August 2011; and expanded control of territory under the Somali Government in the succeeding years to...
"Black Hawks Rising" tells the story of the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confine...
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129,64 zł |
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Building Colonialism: Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa
ISBN: 9781474288804 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centres of Africa's more recent past. The study does this by exploring the physical remains of European activity and the way that the construction of harbour towns directly reflects the colonial mission of European powers in the nineteenth century in Tanzania and Kenya. Based on fieldwork which recorded and analysed the buildings and... Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, ... |
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305,15 zł |
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
ISBN: 9781610396547 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb--and to make sure nobody saw them doing it Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only supply of uniquely high-quality uranium ore--the key ingredient for bomb-- could be found in the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo at the Shinkolobwe Mine. Once the US Manhattan Project was committed to developing atomic weapons for the war against Germany and Japan, the rush to procure...
In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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175,21 zł |
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Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White Insane
ISBN: 9781526106551 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kenya Colony, for the British at least, has customarily been imagined as a place of wealthy settler-farmers, expansive panoramas and the adventure of safari. Yet for the majority of Europeans who went there life was very different. Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers an unprecedented new account of the social history of reputedly Britain's most picturesque overseas colony. Kenya Colony, for the British at least, has customarily been imagined as a place of wealthy settler-farmers, expansive panoramas and the adventure ... |
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136,50 zł |
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Black God: An Introduction to the World's Religions and Their Black Gods
ISBN: 9781935721123 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever heard that Christ was Black? What about the Buddha? They weren't alone. Many of the world's first deities and divinities, both male and female, were originally depicted as Black. That means dark skin, woolly hair, broad nose, and the kind of personality that made the world pay attention. In this book, historian Supreme Understanding explores the many Black gods of the ancient world, from Africa to the Near East, to Europe, to India, to China, to Japan, to Australia, all the way to the Black Gods of the Americas. Who were they? How did they come to be worshipped? And what does... Have you ever heard that Christ was Black? What about the Buddha? They weren't alone. Many of the world's first deities and divinities, both male a... |
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119,42 zł |
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Capitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar
ISBN: 9781493941872 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In nineteenth century Zanzibar, clove plantations were established by Omani Arab colonial rulers. This work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism, plantation agriculture, African diaspora communities, gender identities, as well as Islamic studies.
In nineteenth century Zanzibar, clove plantations were established by Omani Arab colonial rulers. This work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism...
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195,87 zł |
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Angola: A Modern Military History, 1961-2002
ISBN: 9781349297948 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It also covers, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial stru...
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195,87 zł |
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Rwanda's Genocide: The Politics of Global Justice
ISBN: 9781349532483 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An insider account of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
An insider account of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
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195,87 zł |
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Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
ISBN: 9781501713699 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system--an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment--Jon Schubert explores...
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Afric...
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601,69 zł |
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National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa
ISBN: 9781138106826 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery. NLMs are generally characterised by a struggle carried out by or in the name of suppressed people for political, social, cultural, economic, territorial liberation and decolonisation. Dozens of NLMs have ascended to state power in Africa following a successful violent popular struggle either as an outright military victory or a negotiated settlement. National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa analyses the... Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery.... |
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700,25 zł |
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The life of a Congolese in the last Century in the Democratic Republic of Congo(1921-1990)
ISBN: 9781498407847 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,14 zł |
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Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The Un, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
ISBN: 9780190873974 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,57 zł |
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The diplomacy of decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964
ISBN: 9781526116260 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. -- .
The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation....
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464,10 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Angola, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781538111222 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Angola contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Angola contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionar...
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649,74 zł |
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Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa
ISBN: 9781776144693 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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461,64 zł |
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Fly Africa: How Aviation Can Generate Prosperity Across the Continent
ISBN: 9781619618077 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,75 zł |
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The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on People and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1991
ISBN: 9780994363107 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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179,49 zł |
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Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
ISBN: 9781847011824 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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285,29 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Chad, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781538114360 / Angielski / Twarda / 766 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary...
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1214,85 zł |
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Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
ISBN: 9781785339844 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine - and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...
Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes t...
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513,51 zł |