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  • Ghana

    A Political and Social History

    by Jeffrey Ahlman ...
    Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century later, when Ghana became the first sub-Saharan state to emerge from European colonial rule, it became a key site for a burgeoning, transnational, ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Kwame Nkrumah

    Visions of Liberation

    by Jeffrey S. Ahlman ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    A new biography of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history.As the first prime minister and president of the West African state of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah helped shape the global narrative of African decolonization. After leading Ghana to independence in 1957, Nkrumah articulated a political vision that aimed to free the country and the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Living with Nkrumahism

    Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana

    by Jeffrey S. Ahlman ...
    Series Book 43 - New African Histories
    In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman reexamines the infrastructure ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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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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  • 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

    $5.99 USD

  • We Need to Talk About Africa

    The harm we have done, and how we should help

    by Tom Young ...
    If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia there followed several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Transformation of EU Treaty Making

    The Rise of Parliaments, Referendums and Courts since 1950

    by Dermot Hodson, Imelda Maher ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
    Treaty making is a site of struggle between those who claim the authority to speak and act on the international stage. The European Union (EU) is an important test case in this respect because the manner in which the Union and its member states make treaties has shifted significantly over the last six decades. Drawing insights from EU law, comparative constitutionalism and international relations, ... Read more

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  • The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah

    by A. Biney ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Politics USA

    by Philip Davies, Robert J. McKeever ...
    Politics USA is a lively and authoritative introduction to American politics, giving students a rich and varied resource for all aspects of their course. The book provides expert and comprehensive analysis of US politics and government, including in-depth coverage of the presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court and American foreign policy.This third edition of Politics USA has been thoroughly ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

    by Valerie Knowles ...
    In this new and revised edition, Knowles explores new materials relating to multiculturalism and immigration.Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped ... Read more

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  • Nkrumah and Ghana

    The Dilemma of Post-Colonial Power

    by Kofi Buenor Hadjor ...
    First published in 1989. During the days following Kwame Nkrumah's death in 1972, the idea of writing this book first took form. During the past fifteen years, Africa has gone through a major trauma. The events of these years help throw light on the Nkrumah experiment, and underline its continued relevance for Ghana and for Africa. ... Read more

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