Kategoria BISAC: History >> Africa - Central

Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study, first published in 1990, deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. Arguing that rural differentiation is systematically reinforced by the socialist state, the authors offer a critique of government intervention and discuss alternative, more effective forms of policy.

Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artifact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centers 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 harbor towns directly reflects the colonial mission of European powers in the nineteenth century in Tanzania and Kenya. Based on fieldwork which recorded and analyzed the buildings and...

This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government s attempts to revise the country's troubled postcolonial past with a view to negotiating the political challenges posed by the present. In doing so, she lays bare the path-dependence of memory practices, while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance.

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Die Bewegung Bundnisfreier Staaten gilt als Unikum in der Geschichte der Dekolonisation, der Sud-Sud-Kooperation, des Kalten Krieges und des Nord-Sud-Konfliktes. In ihr haben sich im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts nahezu alle asiatischen, afrikanischen und lateinamerikanischen Staaten zusammengeschlossen, um ihren weltpolitischen Interessen groeres Gewicht zu verleihen. Mit 120 Mitgliedsstaaten stellt sie nach den Vereinten Nationen eine der groten internationalen Organisationen der Gegenwart dar.
Jurgen Dinkel analysiert in dieser Studie erstmals die gesamte Geschichte der...

"Storti's cultural observations about Indians are spot on." Ranjini Manian, CEO, Global Adjustments, and author of "Doing Business in India for Dummies"

"This is a must read It provides rich insight into why routine interactions are often misconstrued, and offers practical advice on how to present material so both the East and West can relate." Nikki Webster, Learning and Development Director, CNA Insurance Companies
Westerners and Indians are working more closely together and in greater numbers than ever before. The opportunities are vast, and so is the cultural divide....

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...

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...

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.

While Kenya's romantic reputation has served to perpetuate the idea that Europeans enjoyed untroubled command, this volume illustrates powerful stories of conflict,...

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...