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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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- 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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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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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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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled Great Southland. In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three ...
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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752310-8
EAN 9780007523108
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. 'The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth. From the killing fields ...
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- Cornell University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 44,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5017-0023-1
EAN 9781501700231
How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912 1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-249-1
EAN 9781782392491
Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city of Kinshasa, to the dense rainforests that still evoke ...
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Fortunes of Africa
A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-3545-3
EAN 9781471135453
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other ...
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