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  • African Perspectives on European Colonialism

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Argentinian Adventures

    A Planthunter in Argentina

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Argentinian Adventures

    A Planthunter in Argentina

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Mau Mau Crucible of War

    Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa

    Dialogues between Past and Present

    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 ... Leer más

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  • From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures

    Reflections on Africa

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Dedan Kimathi on Trial

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

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Decolonization in Africa

    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. ... Leer más

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  • The New Road to Serfdom

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    de Daniel Hannan ...
    A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.In March 2009, British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed prime minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube clip went viral, leading to whirlwind appearances on FOX News and other ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    de David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Leer más

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