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SHAKA ZULU (Deutsche Fassung)
ISBN: 9781489559326 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Es war ihm prophezeit von den Geistern des Himmels, dass die Volker der Erde ihm Untertan sein sollten. Und sein Reich sollte den Erdkreis umfassen. Die sich zu ihm bekennen, sollten machtig sein durch seine errlichkeit, die seiner spotten, sollte der Bann treffen bis zum Jungsten Tag " Messia und Lucifer, Heilsbringer und Ausgeburt der Holle -- all das verkorpert der Mann, der das Scicksal Afrikas gebpragt hat. Die Geschichte von Shaka, dem legendaren Konig der Zulu, spielt zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in Afrika und ist zunachst gepragt von Demutigung, Vertreibung und Todesangst: das...
"Es war ihm prophezeit von den Geistern des Himmels, dass die Volker der Erde ihm Untertan sein sollten. Und sein Reich sollte den Erdkreis umfassen. ...
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69,71 zł |
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The Origins of War in Mozambique. a History of Unity and Division
ISBN: 9781920489977 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The independence of Mozambique in 1975 and its decolonisation process attracted worldwide attention as a successful example of "national unity." Yet, the armed conflict that broke out between the government and the guerrilla force in 1977 lasted for sixteen years and resulted in over a million deaths and several million refugees, placing this concept of "national unity" into doubt. For nearly twenty years, Sayaka Funada-Classen interviewed people in rural communities in Mozambique. By examining their testimonies, historical documents, previous studies, international and regional politics, and...
The independence of Mozambique in 1975 and its decolonisation process attracted worldwide attention as a successful example of "national unity." Yet, ...
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356,00 zł |
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Identity by Dissociation. a History of the Achewa Providence Industrial Mission
ISBN: 9789996027055 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though Achewa Providence Industrial Mission (APIM) is a church that is confined to the Chewa people, one of John Chilembwes students, Peter Kalemba, a Chewa, was instrumental in the founding of PIM, and later, the organization of APIM in Mangoni. Both churches trace their heritage back to Chilembwe, a Baptist. APIM was instrumental in the beginning of churches in Lilongwe that form the backbone of BACOMA. Since APIM has not spread out to include people of other ethnic groups, Christianization by means of the people group movement is by no means the perfect answer to the evangelization of a...
Though Achewa Providence Industrial Mission (APIM) is a church that is confined to the Chewa people, one of John Chilembwes students, Peter Kalemba, a...
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231,69 zł |
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House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780007219391 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
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67,22 zł |
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The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
ISBN: 9780712661058 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Donald Morris delivers an account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879.
Donald Morris delivers an account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879.
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129,35 zł |
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The Hot 'Cold War': The USSR in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780745324722 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses on states experiencing violent internal conflict and foreign intervention, that is Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The author provides an unique history of the key part that the Soviet Union played in these developments. Spanning 30 years, the book explores how each country struggled for genuine independence...
This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in t...
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165,64 zł |
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Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis
ISBN: 9780748622849 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines intended to enhance the power of the perpetrators. A 'very startling' increase in cases of medicine murder apparently took place in Basutoland (now Lesotho), in southern Africa, in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. It gave rise to a dramatic crisis of late colonial rule. Was this increase a real one? If so, why did it happen? How far does it explain the crisis? What other factors contributed? This book offers some comprehensive answers to these...
Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines inte...
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472,22 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Namibia, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780810853980 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to...
On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more ...
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1259,92 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso
ISBN: 9780810867703 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the "land of the upright people," is a medium-sized land-locked country with no less than six neighbors, some of which periodically get into trouble... which makes it reasonably strategic in some ways. While it has not done as poorly as some other African states, its economic has certainly not prospered and many Burkinabe go abroad to earn a living. As for politics, it is another case of stability without democracy, even if there are periodic elections. Still, this is better than not even having...
Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the "land of the upright people," is a medium-sized ...
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1107,04 zł |
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Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
ISBN: 9780821417775 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasizes how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent. Central to this group was Junod, who became a pioneering collector in the fields of entomology and botany. He would later examine African society with the methodology, theories, and confidence of the natural sciences. On the way he came to depend on the skills of...
Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...
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146,86 zł |
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Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780822354208 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International peace parks transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram Buscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed.
Based on extensive research in southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project, Buscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as... International peace parks transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries have become a popular way of protecting bi...
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120,62 zł |
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Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: New Partners or Old Patterns?
ISBN: 9781780320632 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This expert volume explores the development cooperation policies of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa and compares them with those of Mexico and Western actors. In exploring the motivation and execution of these countries' development policies, the volume analyzes how South-South cooperation has evolved, and where it differs from traditional development cooperation. This vital new collection brings together first-hand experience from a range of national experts from these countries, to provide a forward-looking analysis of global frameworks and the evolution of a possible convergence of...
This expert volume explores the development cooperation policies of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa and compares them with those of Mexico and ...
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125,87 zł |
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Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781848135215 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty years later.
Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and... No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book...
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115,37 zł |
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From Recipients to Donors
ISBN: 9781848139466 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partisan interests, and commit to a new era of coordinated policies and practices. However, the last few years have witnessed a number of challenges to this model: the problematic intrusion of security agendas; inherent difficulties in harmonization and alignment; and difficulties in securing promised finances after the financial crises. One of the key challenges arises from the growing proliferation of donors, with the growing flow of development... Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partis... |
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125,87 zł |
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From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape
ISBN: 9781848139473 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partisan interests, and commit to a new era of coordinated policies and practices. However, the last few years have witnessed a number of challenges to this model: the problematic intrusion of security agendas; inherent difficulties in harmonization and alignment; and difficulties in securing promised finances after the financial crises. One of the key challenges arises from the growing proliferation of donors, with the growing flow of development... Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partis... |
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445,99 zł |
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Malawi in Crisis. The 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its Legacy
ISBN: 9789990887778 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions from Malawian, Zambian, Zimbabwean, British and American historians this book takes a scholarly as well as eyewitness look at the 1959/60 State of Emergency in Nyasaland. A key turning point in the growth and triumph of Malawian nationalism the contributors examine the Emergency and its significance in the modern political history of Malawi and its central African neighbours.
With contributions from Malawian, Zambian, Zimbabwean, British and American historians this book takes a scholarly as well as eyewitness look at the 1...
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305,12 zł |
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Marothodi: The Historical Archaeology of an African Capital
ISBN: 9780956142764 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,17 zł |
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Gazing Upon Sheba's Breasts
ISBN: 9781909276710 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David Price Williams and a team of scientists developed a major research project to investigate the evolution of humankind from the dawn of prehistory two million years ago right up to the present. The book charts their ten year journey, along with the fascinating results of their search, and how David designed and built the Swaziland National Museum. Its full of humour and his love for Africa and its peoples.
Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David...
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107,58 zł |
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Gazing Upon Sheba's Breasts
ISBN: 9781909276703 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David Price Williams and a team of scientists developed a major research project to investigate the evolution of humankind from the dawn of prehistory two million years ago right up to the present. The book charts their ten year journey, along with the fascinating results of their search, and how David designed and built the Swaziland National Museum. Its full of humour and his love for Africa and its peoples.
Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David...
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136,93 zł |
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Facets of Power. Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
ISBN: 9781779222886 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the worlds largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political economy, control of Chiadzwas diamonds was hotly contested. By 2007 a new case of blood diamonds had emerged, in which the countrys security forces engaged with informal miners and black market dealers in the exploitation of rough diamonds, violently disrupting local communities and looting a key national resource. The formalisation of diamond mining in 2010 introduced new...
The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the worlds largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since th...
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192,12 zł |
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