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“milton krieger”

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  • African State And Society In The 1990s

    Cameroon's Political Crossroads

    by Joseph Takougang, Milton Krieger ...
    African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political oppos ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $21.39 CAD

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  • The Order of Genocide

    Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    by Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP)The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with the Congo

    Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003–6). Grassroots rivalries over land, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Season of Rains

    Africa in the World

    by Stephen Ellis ...
    Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    by Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Congo Wars

    Conflict, Myth and Reality

    by Doctor Thomas Turner ...
    Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times.In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Certain Amount of Madness

    The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

    by Horace G. Campbell, Aziz Fall ...
    Series series Black Critique
    Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014.This book looks at Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa

    by Edmond J. Keller ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Engaging…detailed with current information about the situation in many African countries." — African Studies QuarterlyReflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared—and may be more assertive than previously thought, especially in instances of political ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda

    by Filip Reyntjens ...
    Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD