Living for the City
ISBN: 9781108972772 / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
ISBN: 9781108932103 / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Missionaries and the Colonial State: Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972
ISBN: 9780367704025 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,23 zł |
Joan Wicken: A Lifelong Collaboration with Mwalimu Nyerere
ISBN: 9789987753857 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,29 zł |
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
ISBN: 9781250322159 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,21 zł |
Africa South of the Sahara 2025
ISBN: 9781032761022 / Angielski / 14-11-2024 Książka dostępna od: 14-11-2024 |
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The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
ISBN: 9780226026121 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book.
Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century... The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main vic...
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Plundering Africa's Past
ISBN: 9780253210548 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent s prime archeological sites generate little concern in the art world." Foreign Affairs "This benchmark publication challenges all of us to be part of the solution. Plundering Africa s Past cannot help but raise the level of discourse and consciousness about the looting problem, what needs to be done to stop it and about the relationship between Africa and the West." African Studies Review "Plundering Africa s Past should be required reading for all... "An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent s prime archeologica... |
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144,34 zł |
Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
ISBN: 9780299204945 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on the other genocide that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994. Umutesi's documentation of these years provides the world a history that is still widely unknown. Available in English for the first time, this poignant autobiography is more than a testimony to the lives and humanity lost; it is a call for those responsible for the atrocious crimes - and the devastating silence - to be held accountable.
In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on the other genocide that...
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113,55 zł |
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
ISBN: 9780393328738 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.
Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly i...
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109,52 zł |
Tropical Africa
ISBN: 9780415048019 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tropical Africa is a complex and dynamic region. Occupying a marginal position in the world economic system, the region has seemingly insurmountable problems. This book breaks through the complexities with a straightforward and systematic text supported by concise case studies. Covering topics such as population, environment and rural and urban Africa, it builds from an historical base to an understanding of present day patterns and processes and an assessment of future priorities and development strategies. Tropical Africa will prove an invaluable resource for those embarking on any...
Tropical Africa is a complex and dynamic region. Occupying a marginal position in the world economic system, the region has seemingly insurmountable p...
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134,03 zł |
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9780609808269 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food, medicine, and even a gun-toting guide. But once his tiny boat pushed off the banks of this mysterious river, Tayler realized he was in a place where maps and supplies would have no bearing on his survival. As Tayler navigates this immense waterway, he encounters a land of smothering heat and intense...
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind hi...
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73,14 zł |
Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780739109540 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the synergy between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges of transforming a post-colonial multiethnic state into a stable democracy. This work draws attention to the intrinsic relation between the breakdown of quasi-democracy and the reconstitution of a more inclusive democracy and nation-state. Breakdown and Reconstitution is an essential source for scholars of politics in Africa.
Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the synergy between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges o...
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450,57 zł |
The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States
ISBN: 9780759100916 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming a cornerstone of the geographical lore of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, debate on the origins, development, and collapse of the Zimbabwe culture has never ceased, and with increasing archaeological research over the twentieth century, has become more complex. Thoroughly...
Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long cont...
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255,14 zł |
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era
ISBN: 9780801872426 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period. In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast ... |
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143,86 zł |
Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
ISBN: 9780812216882 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unraveling Somalia Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery Catherine Besteman "Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs."--Choice In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's...
Unraveling Somalia Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery Catherine Besteman "Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how care...
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149,12 zł |
Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest
ISBN: 9780813921020 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cutting the Vines of the Past offers a novel argument: African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to how historians write environmental history; they also have important lessons for policymakers and conservationists. Tamara Giles-Vernick demonstrates how various outsiders intervening in African land-use practices have repeatedly met failure because of their inability or unwillingness to understand how Africans see their land and their pasts. Giles-Vernick takes as her focus doli, the environmental and historical perceptions and knowledge... Cutting the Vines of the Past offers a novel argument: African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to... |
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376,08 zł |
Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest
ISBN: 9780813921037 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cutting the Vines of the Past offers a novel argument: African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to how historians write environmental history; they also have important lessons for policymakers and conservationists. Tamara Giles-Vernick demonstrates how various outsiders intervening in African land-use practices have repeatedly met failure because of their inability or unwillingness to understand how Africans see their land and their pasts. Giles-Vernick takes as her focus doli, the environmental and historical perceptions and knowledge... Cutting the Vines of the Past offers a novel argument: African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to... |
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148,52 zł |
Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003
ISBN: 9780821417348 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from precolonial times to the present and into the future. Setting women's economic activities into a broader political, social, and cultural context, it provides the first general account of their experiences amid the changes that shaped the country. "Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003" describes the origins of the current situation, highlighting the challenges working women now face and recommending strategies that will improve their...
This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from pre...
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165,03 zł |
Rwanda's Genocide: The Politics of Global Justice
ISBN: 9781403970817 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rwanda's Genocide, Kingsley Moghalu provides an engrossing account and analysis of the international political brinkmanship embedded in the quest for international justice for Rwanda's genocide. He takes us behind the scenes to the political and strategic factors that shaped a path-breaking war crimes tribunal and demonstrates why the trials at Arusha, like Nuremberg, Tokyo, and the Hague, are more than just prosecutions of culprits, but also politics by other means. This is the first serious book on the politics of justice for Rwanda's genocide. Moghalu tells this gripping story with the...
In Rwanda's Genocide, Kingsley Moghalu provides an engrossing account and analysis of the international political brinkmanship embedded in the quest f...
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192,30 zł |