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  • Argentinian Adventures

    A Planthunter in Argentina

    by John Lonsdale ...
    Argentina is a fascinating and endlessly varied country. This book accounts of four visits, the first of which was a three-month tour of the north of the country, collecting plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This first visit encouraged me to undertake two further visits while still employed by Kew Gardens. Because of these botanical connections, there is a wealth of references to the ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Argentinian Adventures

    A Planthunter in Argentina

    by John Lonsdale ...
    Argentina is a fascinating and endlessly varied country. This book accounts of three visits, the first of which was a three-month tour of the north of the country, collecting plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This first visit encouraged me to undertake two further visits while still employed by Kew Gardens. Because of these botanical connections, there is a wealth of references to the ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures

    Reflections on Africa

    Edited by Hiroyuki Hino, Arnim Langer, John Lonsdale, Frances Stewart ...
    Today, the cohesion of multi-ethnic societies is at risk across the globe. Throughout history, to the present day, African countries have been facing this challenge. Historical inequalities and social division undermine cohesion and sow seeds of instability. How can Africa build a future where ethnic and other differences are a strength, a driver of growth and development, rather than sources of ... Read more

    $164.79 CAD

  • Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Hiroyuki Hino, John Lonsdale, Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart ...
    There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • The Lives of the Poets

    A Selection

    by Samuel Johnson, John Mullan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Dedan Kimathi on Trial

    Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion

    by David M. Anderson, John Lonsdale, Nicholas Githuku, Simon Gikandi, Lotte Hughes ...
    Series Book 17 - Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
    The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present.Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Mau Mau Crucible of War

    Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya

    by Nicholas K. Githuku ...
    Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the ... Read more

    $210.59 CAD

  • African Perspectives on European Colonialism

    by A. Adu Boahen ...
    In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in 1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by John Lonsdale, updating some of Boahen's findings and interpretations while maintaining that the "best ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa

    Dialogues between Past and Present

    by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich, Chris Vaughan, Henri-Michel Yéré, John Lonsdale, Solomon M. Gofie ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • A Tapestry of African Histories

    With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics

    by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo, Opolot Okia, Peter Waweru, Paul Chiudza Banda, Gift Wasambo Kayira, John M. Lonsdale, Anne Kisaka Nangulu, Peter Odhiambo Ndege, Joseph M. Snyder, Nicholas K. Githuku, Robert M. Maxon1, George L. Simpson2, Betty Wambui3 ...
    In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

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  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Read more

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  • Decolonization in Africa

    by John D. Hargreaves ...
    Series series The Postwar World
    John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships. ... Read more

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