Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian: Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
ISBN: 9780815635840 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar into the global system of commerce.
In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city ...
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249,43 zł |
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalizationvolume 6
ISBN: 9780520254237 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always...
This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new ...
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219,00 zł |
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalizationvolume 6
ISBN: 9780520254244 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenonand one driven solely by Western interestsby offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been...
This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenonand one driven solely by Western interestsby offering a compelling new pers...
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349,93 zł |
splm/spla: The Nasir Declaration
ISBN: 9780595284597 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1991, three members of the "SPLM/SPLA" Political-military High Command made the Nasir Declaration. This led to the split of the Movement. One of the leaders of the move(many say, THE ringleader) gives an account of the events that led to this momentous event in the "SPLM/SPLA" history, the developments that followed, what went wrong in the process, how the move affected Sudanese politics and the way forward for South Sudan.
In August 1991, three members of the "SPLM/SPLA" Political-military High Command made the Nasir Declaration. This led to the split of the Movement. On...
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117,15 zł |
Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan
ISBN: 9780691123059 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Written in engaging prose, Civilizing Women...
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254,38 zł |
Zanzibar: Its History and its People
ISBN: 9780714611020 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1931, this account covers both the history and ethnography of Zanzibar.
First published in 1931, this account covers both the history and ethnography of Zanzibar.
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459,03 zł |
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
ISBN: 9780802086631 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture. The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism. Today, however, despite a national inquiry into the deployment of troops to Somalia, what most Canadians are likely to associate with peacekeeping is the nation's glorious... Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shid... |
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168,86 zł |
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
ISBN: 9780802087089 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture. The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism. Today, however, despite a national inquiry into the deployment of troops to Somalia, what most Canadians are likely to associate with peacekeeping is the nation's glorious... Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shid... |
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295,50 zł |
Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-1993
ISBN: 9780821410516 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood. Professor B. A. Ogot says: "The main purpose of the book is to show that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it must also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, as well as economics and politics. "The book also raises a more fundamental question, that is: How much independence is available to any state,...
This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the bo...
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147,69 zł |
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780821414408 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics of the region. Yet it is important to understand this ancient and often splintered country in its own right. In A History of Modern Ethiopia, Bahru Zewde, one of Ethiopia's leading historians, provides a compact and comprehensive history of his country, particularly the last two centuries. Of importance to historians, political scientists, journalists, and Africanists alike, Bahru's A History of Modern...
Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal...
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147,69 zł |
A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821416686 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe s people came to see themselves as excluded from agricultural markets, access to medical services, schooling in short, from all opportunity to escape the impoverishing trap of migrant labor."
The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe...
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348,26 zł |
A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821416693 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe s people came to see themselves as excluded from agricultural markets, access to medical services, schooling in short, from all opportunity to escape the impoverishing trap of migrant labor."
The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe...
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In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821416709 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience of Tanzania. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anticolonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political discourse for decades, but has not obliterated the great wealth of political discourses and identities which exist within the nation."
The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored ...
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348,26 zł |
In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821416716 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience of Tanzania. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anticolonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political discourse for decades, but has not obliterated the great wealth of political discourses and identities which exist within the nation."
The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored ...
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137,14 zł |
Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa, C. 1884-1914
ISBN: 9780821417195 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the complex history of slavery in EastAfrica, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule.In contrast to the policy pursued at the time by other colonial powersin Africa, the German authorities did not legally abolish slavery in theircolonial territories. However, despite government efforts to keep the institutionof slavery alive, it significantly declined in Tanganyika in the periodconcerned. The book highlights the crucial role played by the slaves in theprocess of emancipation.Author Jan-Georg Deutsch explores the rise of slavery in Tanganyika in thesecond...
This study examines the complex history of slavery in EastAfrica, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule.In contrast to the policy ...
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348,26 zł |
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
ISBN: 9780821417492 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in... Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as ... |
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348,26 zł |
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
ISBN: 9780821417508 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in... Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as ... |
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137,14 zł |
Forced Migration in Eastern Africa: Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees
ISBN: 9781403976109 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region.
This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves ...
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195,87 zł |
The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: The Genesis and the Making of the Fiscal Military State, 1696-1913
ISBN: 9781599070209 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book synthesis the development of the Ethiopian state and society at a particular historical stage: the appearance of a new type of power centralization synchronized with Ethiopia's integration into an international state system and capitalist world economy. Adopting a system approach and analysis as a method of cognition, this book reviews major interpretation of the historical process and presents an alternative understanding as well as explanation of the period. It identifies the distinct fiscal systems of the state, reveals the secrets of the Ethiopian independence and presents a...
This book synthesis the development of the Ethiopian state and society at a particular historical stage: the appearance of a new type of power central...
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113,88 zł |
The Rwandan Tutsis: A Tutsi Woman's Account of the Hidden Causes of the Rwandan Tragedy
ISBN: 9781905068388 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,97 zł |