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  • The Silence of Great Zimbabwe

    Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage

    by Joost Fontein ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well reported in the published literature. Based on long term ethnographic field work around Great Zimbabwe, as ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Remaking Mutirikwi

    Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe

    by Joost Fontein ...
    The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. ButAfrican landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active and affective. At independence in 1980, local clans reasserted ancestral land claims in a wave of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Working People Speak

    Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa

    Edited by Jörg Wiegratz, Joseph Mujere, Joost Fontein ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism. It draws on seven case studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and South Sudan, from the late 1980s to the present, to offer a critical analysis of neoliberal transformations and realities at the incisive level ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

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  • Becoming Zimbabwe

    A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

    by Alois Mlambo, Brian Raftopoulos ...
    Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a ... Read more

    $160.99 CAD

  • A History of Modern Uganda

    by Richard J. Reid ...
    This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Twentieth-Century South Africa

    by William Beinart ...
    Series series OPUS
    An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on that country and, to a greater extent than previous accounts, weaves economic and cultural history ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Africa

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Tom Young ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history and the factors behind its dismal economic performance. Maintaining that colonial influences are often overplayed, Young argues that much blame ... Read more

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  • A History of Zimbabwe

    by Alois S. Mlambo ...
    The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to recent developments in the country. Zimbabwe is a country with a rich history, dating from the early San hunter-gatherer societies. The ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The End of Development

    A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the ... Read more

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  • Africa's Future

    How the past is shaping Africa's economic evolution

    by Duncan Clarke ...
    Many seek to "fix" Africa - economists, experts, politicians, gurus, cognoscenti and glitterati. But the continent conceals multiple secrets, including the Holy Grail: explanations of its saga over the previous centuries.Africa's Future tells the tale of Africa's economic evolution, revealing unique prisms for understanding the continent's panoramic story, one of triumph over the lasting ... Read more

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  • The Bleeding Continent

    How Africa Became Impoverished and Why It Remains Poor

    by Venatius Chukwudum Oforka ...
    This book tells the story of the sorry state of Africa. Although it acknowledges how Europe especially initiated and has surreptitiously maintained the ongoing predation on and the impoverishment of Africa, its major attention is on Africas self-betrayal, how Africas political leaders and elites have contributed in the present predicament of Africa. Beginning from the dishonourably sadistic roles ... Read more

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