A Progressive Occupation?: The Gallieni-Lyautey Method and Colonial Pacification in Tonkin and Madagascar, 1885-1900
ISBN: 9780199674572 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eve of the twentieth century, Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquisitions. Their method emphasized the primacy of political action over military action, called for the replacement of military columns with a 'creeping occupation', and stressed the importance of economic-organisational development in ensuring the lasting stability of newly-acquired imperial possessions, and called for the unification of civil and military powers in the hands of the soldier, who would act as the first administrator of the colony....
On the eve of the twentieth century, Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquis...
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580,10 zł |
Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9781845112998 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The received view of Zambia's mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles Larmer seeks to use a whole range of little-used sources to dispel this myth. Extensive interviews with mineworkers and their wives reveals a working-class consciousness and a whole host of social and economic expectations that shaped their attitude towards political change. Mineworkers in Zambia gives this misunderstood group a place in the movement for political reform which culminated in the transition to multiparty democracy in 1991,...
The received view of Zambia's mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles L...
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656,16 zł |
Tribal Innovators : Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940
ISBN: 9781859738498 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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529,98 zł |
Zimbabwe: The Rise To Nationhood
ISBN: 9781434362179 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,85 zł |
The price of our freedom
ISBN: 9781514294116 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of memoirs, dedicated to my father, is based on specific historical events and tells his story. It also tells the story of my family and many others like us, who had to choose the difficult path of (exile) immigration, from the land of our birth, to survive. Inspired by the events of the present, to recall and revive those of the past, the entire narrative covers almost the span of a century: From the beginning of white settlement in Rhodesia until after the elections that brought Mugabe to power. Taking the country from: - "The Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland" to Rhodesia...
This collection of memoirs, dedicated to my father, is based on specific historical events and tells his story. It also tells the story of my family a...
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49,32 zł |
Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987
ISBN: 9780521818230 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This critical examination of post-war of independence peace settlement and veterans' programs is the first extended study of the complicit relationship between the ruling party and the veterans. It shows continuities in the relationship between President Mugabe's government and guerrilla veterans in the first seven years in contemporary Zimbabwe (1980-1987). As the recent election has demonstrated, Mugabe and the veterans continue to collaborate, using violence and liberation war rhetoric to maintain power through land invasions and political purges.
This critical examination of post-war of independence peace settlement and veterans' programs is the first extended study of the complicit relationshi...
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408,84 zł |
Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 9780797428973 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. ..".the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe." - Zimbabwe Book Publishers...
Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Science...
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247,45 zł |
Zimbabwe: Beyond a School Certificate
ISBN: 9781438906683 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,77 zł |
Zimbabwe: Beyond a School Certificate
ISBN: 9781438906690 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,17 zł |
Poverty, Medicine and Disease in South Africa
ISBN: 9783639105827 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A higher infant mortality rate and a shorter life expectancy, coupled with a high prevalence of a variety of diseases commonly associated with malnutrition, are usually a reflection of the social conditions of poverty in a society. By arguing that apartheid formed the basis of inequality and the underlying cause of an unacceptable burden of diseases of poverty among black South Africans, the author locates these health problems within their social, economic, and political context. He argues that if health and disease are measures of the effectiveness with which human beings using scientific...
A higher infant mortality rate and a shorter life expectancy, coupled with a high prevalence of a variety of diseases commonly associated with malnutr...
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408,37 zł |
The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina
ISBN: 9781779220714 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 2005 the Government of Zimbabwe began 'Operation Murambatsvina'. Officially translated as 'Operation Clean-Up', the more literal meaning is 'getting rid of the filth'. The operation continued throughout the month of June, and affected virtually every town and rural business centre in the country. From Mount Darwin in the north to Beitbridge in the south, Mutare in the east and Bulawayo in the west, no part of the nation was spared; every day more buildings fell and families were displaced. In his introduction to The Hidden Dimensions Maurice Vambe argues that the treatment of people as...
In May 2005 the Government of Zimbabwe began 'Operation Murambatsvina'. Officially translated as 'Operation Clean-Up', the more literal meaning is 'ge...
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215,86 zł |
From Protest to Challenge, Volume 6: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990, Challenge and Victory, 1980-1990
ISBN: 9780253354228 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Protest to Challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict, protest, and political mobilization by South Africa's black majority. Volume 6 takes up the story in 1980 and examines the crucial decade that preceded the collapse of the apartheid system. As with earlier volumes in the series, it combines narrative with a wealth of primary source materials that record the words of the men and women who... From Protest to Challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning... |
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272,56 zł |
A House in Zambia. Recollections of the ANC and Oxfam at 250 Zambezi Road, Lusaka, 1967-97
ISBN: 9789982240512 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story about a house with a history and about the people who lived or worked there. It captures something of the spirit of the times in the worlds of politics and development, and it discusses the links which were established between Oxfam GB in Zambia and the African National Congress of South Africa.
This is a story about a house with a history and about the people who lived or worked there. It captures something of the spirit of the times in the w...
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231,66 zł |
Friends and Foes in the Transkei: a Victorian Lady's Experience of Southern Africa During the 1870s
ISBN: 9781846777585 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pioneer days in South Africa
Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of the interior was in full swing and hers was a family that typified the pioneer sprit of the time. Inevitably the expansion of a new people impacted upon the lives of the native population. These were years-for the British in Africa-when this would have its most significant and disastrous consequences. We experience through Helen Prichard's writings her family's efforts to create a new life for themselves in the wilderness. Their lives are put in jeopardy as the Kaffir tribes... Pioneer days in South Africa
Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of the interior was in full swing an... |
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124,45 zł |
Friends and Foes in the Transkei: A Victorian Lady's Experience of Southern Africa During the 1870s
ISBN: 9781846777578 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pioneer days in South Africa
Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of the interior was in full swing and hers was a family that typified the pioneer sprit of the time. Inevitably the expansion of a new people impacted upon the lives of the native population. These were years-for the British in Africa-when this would have its most significant and disastrous consequences. We experience through Helen Prichard's writings her family's efforts to create a new life for themselves in the wilderness. Their lives are put in jeopardy as the Kaffir tribes... Pioneer days in South Africa
Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of the interior was in full swing an... |
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71,80 zł |
Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier
ISBN: 9781440125003 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As they advanced into the South Africa interior, white settlers and black Dutch-speakers enslaved local Africans rather than import slave laborers. Boers conducted slave raids with armed African auxiliaries, and turned the captives (mostly children) into domestics, herders, hunters, agricultural laborers, porters, drivers, personal servants, and artisans. Boer republics legalized slavery as "apprenticeship" and labeled thousands of captive children (whose parents they had killed) as "orphans."
Slavery in South Africa shows that slavery was widespread in South Africa until the late... As they advanced into the South Africa interior, white settlers and black Dutch-speakers enslaved local Africans rather than import slave laborers. Bo...
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98,08 zł |
The Maputo Connection : ANC Life in the World of Frelimo
ISBN: 9781770097681 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an intimate history of the relationship between the ANC and the peoples of Mozambique, a reflection on the personal sacrifices that accompanied their support of South African freedom fighters and a gesture of respect to the country that understood the importance of the liberation of South Africa.
This work is an intimate history of the relationship between the ANC and the peoples of Mozambique, a reflection on the personal sacrifices that accom...
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95,37 zł |
Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia: The Diplomatic Achievement of the Western Contact Group
ISBN: 9783905758177 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of 1977, several members of the United Nations Security Council prepared a joint diplomatic initiative to resolve the deadlock over South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia. In this book, Vergau, a key participant in the ensuing negotiations, analyzes the multifaceted political and diplomatic developments as well as dramatic setbacks that followed the initiative.
At the beginning of 1977, several members of the United Nations Security Council prepared a joint diplomatic initiative to resolve the deadlock over S...
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88,55 zł |
Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780821419533 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposurevaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs. Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa... |
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151,37 zł |
Bulawayo's Forgotten School: St Peter Diocesan School, A Historic Preview, 1911-1977
ISBN: 9781448636365 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. St Peters Diocesan School was established in 1911 under the influence of the Community of the Ressurection, Grahamstown South Africa. The School ran under various leaderships untill 1977. This book gives a historic profile of the school, from inception to the time it closed, a lot of the chronicles are in the words of the former students and staff. With an extensive photo gallery that starts in 1919, a list of all the headgirls and headmistresses from inception, as well as a collection of Old Girl files.......this book is a worthwhile read
St Peters Diocesan School was established in 1911 under the influence of the Community of the Ressurection, Grahamstown South Africa. The School ran u...
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121,15 zł |