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- James Currey, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 106,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84701-180-0
EAN 9781847011800
The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-117-7
EAN 9781631491177
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government ...
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- Harper Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812665-0
EAN 9780008126650
An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Books of the Year A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... written with exceptional delicacy and restraint' TLS The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for ...
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- Penguin USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-525-57357-9
EAN 9780525573579
A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader's wisdom into 15 vital life lessonsWe long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber ated ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-063-0
EAN 9781786070630
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 from Africa, the continent is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists ...
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- Casemate, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-593-5
EAN 9781612005935
The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi- the Expected One' - and travelled through Sudan, gathering support for his jihad. Initially, the Egyptian-Ottoman authorities ...
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Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
- Penguin USA, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,35 €
ISBN 978-0-525-50902-8
EAN 9780525509028
Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17224-8
EAN 9780691172248
A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups Boko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 53,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-693-0
EAN 9781849046930
Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response ...
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- Pan, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-0959-2
EAN 9781509809592
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest ...
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- Macmillan, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-0960-8
EAN 9781509809608
The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. I have discovered the secret that after climbing a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4767-7741-2
EAN 9781476777412
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of ...
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- Orion, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-685-9
EAN 9781780226859
Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97182-0
EAN 9780674971820
Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda Heywood offers the first full-length study in English of Queen Njinga's long life and political influence, revealing ...
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Africa's Long Road Since Independence
The Many Histories of a Continent
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198409-4
EAN 9780141984094
'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6548-1
EAN 9781445665481
Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833-25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer. The number of letters after his name indicate just how glittering his career was. What first made him a household name - he is the original 'Modern Major-General' - was campaigning in ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-376-4
EAN 9780857423764
Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist literature. While Conde has previously published an autobiography of her childhood, What ...
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
In Search of the Lost Arctic Frontier
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25441-9
EAN 9780393254419
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a heretofore unknown land looming in the distance. He called it Crocker Land. Scientists and explorers agreed that ...
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Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, ...
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A 'MAKING A MURDERER' set in South Africa - a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid In 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-year-old white American activist called Amy Biehl was murdered by a group of young black men in a township near Cape ...
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