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City of Steel and Fire: A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984
ISBN: 9780325071060 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sudanese working-class town of Atbara is the headquarters of the Sudan railways. Nicknamed "City of Steel and Fire "by Sudanese workers, the town remains a major site of labor activism and radical politics. This book chronicles the struggles of railway workers against the Sudanese colonial and postcolonial governments. Sikainga's text will interest Sudanese scholars, labor historians, and students of radical politics. Based on numerous oral interviews and extensive archival research, this book is destined to become the authoritative text on Sudanese labor history. For more than 50... The Sudanese working-class town of Atbara is the headquarters of the Sudan railways. Nicknamed "City of Steel and Fire "by Sudanese workers, the to... |
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506,22 zł |
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Sobriety & Mirth: A Selection of the Shorter Writings of Al-Jāhiz
ISBN: 9780710306975 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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969,57 zł |
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Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-1953: Eastern African Studies
ISBN: 9780821408841 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. Dr. Throup combines traditional Imperial History with its emphasis on the high politics of "The Official Mind" in the Colonial Office or in Government House with the new African historiography that concentrates on the people themselves. Sir Philip Mitchell was the proconsul chosen to reassert metropolitan authority. Under Kenyatta's leadership the Kenya African Union mobilized a popular...
This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining...
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153,04 zł |
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Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
ISBN: 9780823224296 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Berger describes himself as a reconstructed old New Critic, and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his inquiryacross several cultures and disciplines. They also demonstrate the interpretiverichness, the theoretical acumen, and the energetic prose that characterize thework of one of America's premier close readers.Situated Utterances is divided into four parts. In Part One Berger designs ananalytical model...
Berger describes himself as a reconstructed old New Critic, and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways i...
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242,39 zł |
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The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780966987720 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
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109,29 zł |
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Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent
ISBN: 9781411663978 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of African writing only featured on the Internet until now, this book features the collected works of writers for the G21 AFRICA section of G21.net. The eight writers represented here are from around the continent and present an exciting look at cutting-edge fiction and reporting from the first continent today.
An anthology of African writing only featured on the Internet until now, this book features the collected works of writers for the G21 AFRICA section ...
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108,96 zł |
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Rilke on Death and Other Oddities
ISBN: 9781425728175 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,10 zł |
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Rilke on Death and Other Oddities
ISBN: 9781425728182 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,96 zł |
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Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba
ISBN: 9781580462174 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded in 1887 by a Sufi shaykh in a moment of mystic illumination. Since the death of the founder in 1927, the Mouride order has designed and built the entire city. Touba is named for Tuba, the "Tree of Paradise" of Islamic tradition. This archetypal tree articulates Islamic conceptions of righteous life on earth, divine judgment, and access to the Hereafter; the city of Touba actualizes this spiritual construct. Important...
Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Suf...
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505,20 zł |
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Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics
ISBN: 9781580462198 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yoruba Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues on Yoruba history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. With a careful blend of sources and methods, narratives on the past and present, the book manages to present a long history as the backdrop to complicated contemporary politics. Contributors: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso...
Yoruba Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues on Yoruba history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popu...
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511,72 zł |
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Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist
ISBN: 9781580462358 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engaging new volume, Sylvester Ogbechie refutes this approach by examining the life and work of Ben Enwonwu (1917-94), a premier African modernist and pioneer whose career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of African art. In the decades between Enwonwu's birth and...
The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant...
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457,85 zł |
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Hiv/Aids, Illness, and African Well-Being
ISBN: 9781580462402 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being highlights the specific health problems facing Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book presents not only various health crises, but also the larger historical and contemporary contexts within which they must be understood and managed. Chapters offering analysis of specific illness case studies, and the effects of globalization and underdevelopment on health, provide an overarching context in which HIV/AIDS and other health-related concerns can be understood. The contributions on the HIV/AIDS...
HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Well-Being highlights the specific health problems facing Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking ...
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511,72 zł |
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Writing African History
ISBN: 9781580462563 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction...
Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's c...
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177,70 zł |
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Locality, Mobility, and Nation: Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960
ISBN: 9781580462648 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this original interdisciplinary study of Togo and African colonial history, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social history by documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Anchoring his arguments on the premise that nationalist historiographies have overstated the role of urban and elite power while undervaluing the strategic place of rural constituencies, Lawrance uses the Ewe nationalist movement of southern Togo as a case study in what he terms -periurban colonialism- -- a historical paradigm that reunites the urban and...
In this original interdisciplinary study of Togo and African colonial history, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social history by ...
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511,72 zł |
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Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power
ISBN: 9781580462785 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indirect rule -- the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages. A reexamination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been much more: an ideological strategy designed to win legitimacy for colonial officials. Indirect rule became the basic template from which segregation and apartheid emerged during the twentieth century and set the stage for a post-apartheid debate over African political identity...
Indirect rule -- the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by sch...
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403,99 zł |
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Glass Jars Among Trees : Prose and Poetry
ISBN: 9781919931234 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This genre-shattering anthology includes writings in a variety of styles by pensioners, prisoners, schoolchildren, drifting teenagers, praise-singers, and even a few poets.
This genre-shattering anthology includes writings in a variety of styles by pensioners, prisoners, schoolchildren, drifting teenagers, praise-singers,...
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79,33 zł |
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Granta 92
ISBN: 9781929001224 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This issue of "Granta" reveals what the Africans themselves think about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among its many nations. "Granta 92" includes new writing from such literary superstars as J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, Emmanuel Dongala, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. It also includes a nonfiction piece by Daniel Bergner about a former LAPD policeman who now works for the United Nations training police in war-torn Liberia.
This issue of "Granta" reveals what the Africans themselves think about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among its many nations. ...
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109,83 zł |
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Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974
ISBN: 9781580462914 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1960s and early 1970s, a majority of Ethiopian students and intellectuals adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology with fanatic fervor. The leading force in an uprising against the imperial regime of Emperor Haile Selassie, they played a decisive role in the rise of a Leninist military regime. In this original study, Messay Kebede examines the sociopolitical and cultural factors that contributed to the radicalization of the educated elite in Ethiopia, and how this phenomenon contributed to the country's uninterrupted political crises and economic setbacks since the Revolution of...
During the 1960s and early 1970s, a majority of Ethiopian students and intellectuals adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology with fanatic fervor. The lead...
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457,85 zł |
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Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
ISBN: 9781580462624 / Angielski / Twarda / 443 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centuries it has maintained fantasy as reality through the myth of racial democracy. Enshrined in that mythology is the masking of exclusionism that strategically displaces and marginalizes Afro-Brazilians from political power. In this absorbing new study, Niyi Afolabi exposes the tensions between the official position on racial harmony and the reality of marginalization experienced by Afro-Brazilians by exploring Afro-Brazilian cultural production as a considered response to this exclusion. The...
Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centuries it has maintained fantasy as reality through t...
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511,72 zł |
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A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994
ISBN: 9781580461269 / Angielski / Miękka / 549 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials. The first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after World War II. By independence...
A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to b...
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204,12 zł |
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