Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780691617374 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution. He makes possible comparison of urbanization in five countries (including England and France as well as Russia) and develops a systematic framework for analyzing cities of varying size. Treatment of Russia includes a history of urban development prior to 1750,... This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earl... |
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298,57 zł |
L'Afrique sous les ailes
ISBN: 9781507837900 / Francuski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lors de la liquidation de l'Aeropostale, Daurat recommande a Yann de se rendre a Alger ou le commandant Dagnaux, un as de la guerre, envisage de creer une compagnie aerienne afin de relier les colonies francaises d'Afrique a la metropole par les airs. Des le premier contact les hommes s'apprecient. Pour commencer Kermadec est charge de creer une escale a Aoulef. Puis, au demarrage de la compagnie il en sera le chef pilote. L'ont rejoints, Jacques, le radio, Collot le mecanicien, le Heron comme patron de l'entretien. De nombreuses aventures aeriennes et sentimentales parsement le recit....
Lors de la liquidation de l'Aeropostale, Daurat recommande a Yann de se rendre a Alger ou le commandant Dagnaux, un as de la guerre, envisage de creer...
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Making Sense of the Central African Republic
ISBN: 9781783603794 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its position at the center of a tumultuous region that has drawn substantial international attention and intervention over the decades, the Central African Republic is often overlooked when discussions turn to questions of postcolonial development, democracy, and change in Africa. This book seeks to remedy that oversight, bringing together the foremost experts on the Central African Republic to offer the first in-depth analysis of the nation s recent history of rebellion and instability. Gathering contributions from nearly every scholar and international policy maker who has written...
Despite its position at the center of a tumultuous region that has drawn substantial international attention and intervention over the decades, the Ce...
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122,15 zł |
Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent
ISBN: 9781849045155 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also progress. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, with an introductory chapter...
Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have ...
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152,39 zł |
Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation
ISBN: 9780691650791 / Angielski / Twarda / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French with an English introduction. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to... This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French ... |
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Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation
ISBN: 9780691649825 / Angielski / Twarda / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels consists of official statements and memoranda, proceedings of conferences, etc. In French, with an English introduction by Herbert Weiss. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while... This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels c... |
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1237,62 zł |
Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780691644523 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution. He makes possible comparison of urbanization in five countries (including England and France as well as Russia) and develops a systematic framework for analyzing cities of varying size. Treatment of Russia includes a history of urban development prior to 1750,... This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earl... |
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902,55 zł |
Material Explorations in African Archaeology
ISBN: 9780199550067 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been generally neglected by archaeologists working in Africa until recently. Material Explorations in African Archaeology examines materiality in African archaeology by exploring concepts of material agency and material engagement and entanglement in relation to their manifest presence in persons, animals, objects, substances, and contexts....
How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead ...
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Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964
ISBN: 9781472437877 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable...
As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzib...
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Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
ISBN: 9780253020666 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding, marijuana, violent sexual behavior, and other transgressive acts. Gondola argues that this street culture became a backdrop for Congo-Zaire's... During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on ... |
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Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
ISBN: 9780253020772 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding, marijuana, violent sexual behavior, and other transgressive acts. Gondola argues that this street culture became a backdrop for Congo-Zaire's... During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on ... |
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History of the Catholic Church in Zambia, 1895-1995
ISBN: 9781515284031 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A History of the Catholic Church in Zambia from 1895 to 1995. The book starts with the development of the first Mission foundations and draws out the development of all significant Catholic institutions in Zambia.
A History of the Catholic Church in Zambia from 1895 to 1995. The book starts with the development of the first Mission foundations and draws out the ...
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110,93 zł |
Ifishilano ku Kabende na kwa Sokontwe
ISBN: 9781515313946 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the Bena Kabende and Batwa people of Zambia, narrated by elders, chiefs, headwomen and headmen in the Bemba language.
A history of the Bena Kabende and Batwa people of Zambia, narrated by elders, chiefs, headwomen and headmen in the Bemba language.
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The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean
ISBN: 9781558765443 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in English: Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004, with title Makran, Oman and Zanzibar.
Originally published in English: Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004, with title Makran, Oman and Zanzibar.
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Urgency of a New Dawn. Prison Thoughts and Reflections
ISBN: 9789956763733 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urgency of a New Dawn is the cry of most Southern Cameroonians against those who they experience to be an oppressive, Machiavellian, hostile, parasitising, captor-like, secessionist, assimilationist, discriminatory, and dehumanising la Republique du Cameroun, to which they were annexed through misleading UN and UK politics and Politics as a condition toward their independence from the UK in 1961. Extrapolating only on these two territories, Urgency of a New Dawn is no less the sweeping story of one too many other peoples across Africa, tormented by the heedless partitioning of the continent...
Urgency of a New Dawn is the cry of most Southern Cameroonians against those who they experience to be an oppressive, Machiavellian, hostile, parasiti...
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Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
ISBN: 9780190611354 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 to Luanda, the rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500 kilometers in seven months to crush the dictatorship. To the Congolese rebels and their Pan-Africanist allies, the vanquishing of the Mobutu regime represented nothing short of a 'second independence' for Congo and Central Africa as a whole and the dawning of a new regional order of peace and security. Within fifteen...
In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 19...
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Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era
ISBN: 9780190612375 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyzing the contested legacy of Catholicism in Rwanda, Rwanda Before the Genocide focuses on a critical decade, from 1952 to 1962, when Hutu and Tutsi identities became politicized, essentialized, and associated with...
Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwand...
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Orphan of the Cold War: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992-93
ISBN: 9780333664452 / Angielski / Twarda / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the personal story of Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Angola from February 1992 to June 1993. It describes the suffering she witnessed and analyzes the reasons for the mission's failure.
This is the personal story of Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN and Head of the UN peacekeepi...
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576,96 zł |
Mozambique: A War Against the People
ISBN: 9781349223183 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mozambique: A War against the People examines the nature of the war that has been waged by the Renamo rebels in Mozambique since 1976, and the profound effects that it has had on, in particular, the country's human infrastructure. The toll of the war has been manifested most dramatically in the geographical dislocation of a large section of the population. Along with the Frelimo government's policy failures this has served to limit socialist development in the past. It now threatens potential for development along the capitalist and democratic road.
Mozambique: A War against the People examines the nature of the war that has been waged by the Renamo rebels in Mozambique since 1976, and the profoun...
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The Black Madonna: Mysterious Soul Companion
ISBN: 9781478721758 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna and all that she represents became a mystical guide for Georgieff on her intimate journey of the human soul. Through travels to some of the world's most famous Black Madonna Shrines, interviews with scholars, scientists, clergy and artists, exploration of the historic evolution of human consciousness and deep reflections on the basic purpose of the spiritual path, Georgieff weaves an intriguing story of our cosmic origins, our difficult present...
The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna ...
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