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With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103118-7
EAN 9780141031187
There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists.At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being generous enough? Or is the problem ...
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- Transworld, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77548-9
EAN 9780552775489
Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, an epic novel about slavery through the life of one brave woman, now a forthcoming 6-part TV miniseries starring Cuba J Gooding Jr,Louis Gossett and Aunjaune Ellis.Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo ...
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Breyten Breytenbach is a leading Afrikaner poet who was arrested and tortured for his political activities during apartheid. Here he returns to South Africa from Parisian exile, and finds himself excavating the history of his family while contemplating the cultural identity of a nation.
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Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events, including mass killings of over 200,000 people. The country remained in a state of simmering civil war until 2004, after which ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-659-0
EAN 9781848876590
On 24 June 1995, at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Springboks faced the All Blacks in the final of the Rugby World Cup. When South Africa's new President, Nelson Mandela, stepped on to the field wearing the Springbok captain's jersey, something changed in South Africa. This book tells the extraordinary and moving story of a ...
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- Portobello, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-155-7
EAN 9781846271557
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Morocco
From Empire to Independence
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The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga ...
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Africa
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
- Portobello, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-154-0
EAN 9781846271540
The great Africa correspondent delivers, after four decades' close observation of the miraculous continent, a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa.Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 Richard Dowden has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands.Like ...
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The compelling autobiography of Wangari Maathai, Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In ...
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Tip and Run
The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in africa
- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2349-1
EAN 9780753823491
In the aftermath of the Great War the East Africa campaign was destined to be dismissed by many in Britain as a remote 'sideshow' in which only a handful of names and episodes - the Konigsberg, von Lettow-Vorbeck, the 'Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika' - achieved any lasting notoriety. But to the other combatant powers ...
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Amirah-Fernández x{0026} Zoubir
North Africa
. Politics, Region and The Limits of Transformation
- Routledge, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 34,49 €
ISBN 978-0-415-42921-4
EAN 9780415429214
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary Maghreb. Made up of contributions from leading academics in the field, it highlights specific issues of importance, including international and security affairs.With profiles of individual countries and regional issues, such as migration, gender, integration, economics, and war in Western Sahara, as well as a section dealing ...
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- Routledge, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,40 €
ISBN 978-0-415-77139-9
EAN 9780415771399
This book provides a wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day using the cultural, social, political, and economic lenses of Africa as instruments to illuminate the ordinary lives of Africans. The result is a fresh new survey that includes a wealth of indigenous ideas, African concepts, and traditional outlooks that have ...
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Parker, John / Rathbon, Richard
African History
A Very Short Introduction
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,35 €
ISBN 978-0-19-280248-4
EAN 9780192802484
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-59921-211-1
EAN 9781599212111
Previously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.
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The Emperor
Downfall of an Autocrat
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118803-4
EAN 9780141188034
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to ...
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- Ohio University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-89680-248-3
EAN 9780896802483
The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks ...
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