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The Lusiads
Av Luis Vaz de Camoes, Landeg White
Häftad, 2008
166 kr
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First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first …
Magomero
Portrait of an African Village
Av Landeg White
Häftad, 1989
754 kr
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Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the …
Bridging the Zambesi
A Colonial Folly
Av Landeg White
E-bok, 1993
777 kr
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In 1935, a bridge was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa. 51 years later, it was blown up by anti-government forces. This book brings together politics, diplomacy, economics, labour history and technology to show how this engineering feat was a disaster of colonial planning.
