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Africa and the Olympics
Winning Away from the Podium
Häftad, 2024
397 kr
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At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021 due to COVID-19), the fifty-four African countries that participated finished the tournament with the lowest medal haul for any continent, continuing a historic trend since the inception of the modern Games in 1896. Reflecting this relative lack of …
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
Inbunden, 2015
935 kr
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From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic …
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
Häftad, 2015
370 kr
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From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic …
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
E-bok, 2015
588 kr
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From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic …
Ethnic Conflict
Religion, Identity, and Politics
Av S. a. Giannakos, S. A. Giannakos
Häftad, 2002
358 kr
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The outbreak of numerous and simultaneous violent conflicts around the globe in the past decade resulted in immense human suffering and countless lost lives. In part, both results were aided by inactivity or by belated and often misplaced responses by the international community to the embattled …
Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa
Häftad, 2006
540 kr
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Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration.An alternative to discourses of the "failed" and "collapsed" state in Africa is an approach that takes …
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Häftad, 2007
319 kr
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The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic …
Hanging by a Thread
Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa
Av William G. Moseley, Leslie C. Gray
Häftad, 2008
412 kr
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The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world's major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the …
Cast Out
Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Häftad, 2008
513 kr
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Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is …
Cultivating the Colonies
Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies
Av Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
513 kr
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The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally …
Violence
Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention
Häftad, 2012
389 kr
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In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention provides a multidisciplinary …
Obama and Kenya
Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Av Matthew Carotenuto, Katherine Luongo
Inbunden, 2016
932 kr
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Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama's ancestral home, a …
Obama and Kenya
Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Av Matthew Carotenuto, Katherine Luongo
Häftad, 2016
299 kr
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Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama's ancestral home, a …
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players Across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
Inbunden, 2017
941 kr
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With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The …
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players Across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The …
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion
Inbunden, 2017
1058 kr
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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 …
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion
Häftad, 2017
416 kr
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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 …
Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
Inbunden, 2018
932 kr
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Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, …
Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
Häftad, 2018
368 kr
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Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, …
Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War
Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror
Inbunden, 2018
999 kr
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In Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War—interdisciplinary in approach and intended for nonspecialists—Elizabeth Schmidt provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. She focuses on the quarter …
Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War
Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror
Häftad, 2018
416 kr
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In Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War—interdisciplinary in approach and intended for nonspecialists—Elizabeth Schmidt provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. She focuses on the quarter …
Africa and the Olympics
Winning Away from the Podium
Inbunden, 2024
932 kr
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At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021 due to COVID-19), the fifty-four African countries that participated finished the tournament with the lowest medal haul for any continent, continuing a historic trend since the inception of the modern Games in 1896. Reflecting this relative lack of …
Cultivating the Colonies
Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies
Av Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
820 kr
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The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally …
Violence
Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention
E-bok, 2012
606 kr
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In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention provides a multidisciplinary …
Making a World After Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
E-bok, 2019
471 kr
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In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the world's population, the Bandung conference occurred …
Military Intervention After the Cold War
The Evolution of Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2005
397 kr
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For hundreds of years, military intervention in another country was considered taboo and prohibited by international law. Since 1992, intervention has often been described as an international responsibility, and efforts have been made to give it legal justification. This extraordinary change in …
Making a World After Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Häftad, 2019
375 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the world's population, the Bandung conference occurred …
