Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expectations between citizens dictate the success or fai……続きを見る
著者:Sarah Longair
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月09日
As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Pe……続きを見る
Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highli……続きを見る
Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together in one volume, with an introduction by Cornel West……続きを見る
著者:Michael Korda
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2010年11月16日
From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive bio……続きを見る
Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land……続きを見る
“The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading ……続きを見る
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goodeーa stunning story of the first mix……続きを見る
著者:Nicole Koenig
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月10日
This book explores European Union crisis management and draws implications for its role as an international security actor.
The success of EU crisis management has varied greatly and this book aims ……続きを見る
“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.”
- Dorothea Dix
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts:
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen.
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Echnaton ist der berühmteste und rätselhafteste ägyptische Pharao. Im 14. Jahrhundert v. Chr. verordnete er seinen Untertanen einen monotheistischen Glauben, revolutionierte das hergebrachte Weltbil……続きを見る
AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squ……続きを見る
The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned ……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Spector
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
"Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. In this riveting vol……続きを見る
著者:Alex de Waal
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account o……続きを見る
著者:Iris Berger
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists a……続きを見る
While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, dev……続きを見る
Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use of ‘honour’ in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The m……続きを見る
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of ……続きを見る
Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious age……続きを見る
This incisive, deeply informed book introduces post-apartheid South Africa to an international audience. South Africa has a history of racism and white supremacy. This crushing historical burden con……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Lovesey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年03月03日
Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabh……続きを見る
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who we……続きを見る
What if Christianity had never existed? Would the world be a better place? Or would it be worse?
Was Christianity really responsible for persecutions, wars and genocides?
Would it surprise you to kn……続きを見る
Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung’u is one of colonial Kenya’s most controversial chiefs. His name has gone down in history as a traitor who was assassinated because he sold his country to the British co……続きを見る
Martin Bossenbroeks preisgekrönte Darstellung des Burenkriegs (1899 – 1902) ist aus der Perspektive des niederländischen Juristen Willem Leyds, des britischen Kriegsberichterstatters Winston Churchi……続きを見る
First published in 1986. The free market is often associated with liberty and individualism, and this connection has been made for more centuries than is generally realised. This essays collected in……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Cory
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年04月08日
Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age? Many We……続きを見る