Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Hardcover. In this groundbreaking collection, leading historians, Africanists, and other scholars document the life and work of twelve Igbo intellectuals who, educated within European traditions, came to terms with the dominance of European thought while making significant contributions to African intellectual traditions. Editor(s): Chuku, Gloria. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311283
- ISBN
- 9781137311283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.76
€ 123.76
Hardcover. This book addresses the meanings and implications of self-organization and state society relations in contemporary Nigerian politics. Editor(s): Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; JPQ; JPR; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324528
- ISBN
- 9781137324528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws. The authors discuss the implications of non-state justice for the rule of law, presenting case studies on traditional councils and courts in Pakistan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Bolivia and South Africa. Editor(s): Kotter, Matthias; Roder, Tilmann J.; Schuppert, Gunnar Folke; Wolfrum, Rudiger. Series: Governance and Limited Statehood. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 1HBS; 1HFGA; 1KLSL; JPVH; LAQ; LNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403278
- ISBN
- 9781137403278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest. Focusing on Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, it provides a critical assessment of how their external perceptions relate to EU policy towards them. Editor(s): Muller, Martin L.; Bachmann, Veit. Series: Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1HF; 1QFE; JFFS; JHB; JPSL; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405463
- ISBN
- 9781137405463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Hardcover. The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so. Editor(s): Laidlaw, Zoe; Lester, Alan ((St Mary'S University College)). Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 1KB; 1MB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452351
- ISBN
- 9781137452351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.76
€ 123.76
Hardcover. Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented. Editor(s): Vertovec, Steven. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1HFMS; 1KBBEY; JFFN; JFFS; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495471
- ISBN
- 9781137495471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children-one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule. Editor(s): Aderinto, Saheed. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501622
- ISBN
- 9781137501622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Hardcover. What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism. Editor(s): Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543448
- ISBN
- 9781137543448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fielding, David. Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFJ; KCBM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403949523
- ISBN
- 9781403949523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.72
€ 122.72
Hardcover. Higher Education in the BRICS Countries Editor(s): Schwartzman, Simon; Pillay, Pundy; Pinheiro, Romulo. Series: Higher Education Dynamics. Num Pages: 493 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 58 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FKA; 1FPC; 1HFMS; 1KLSB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401795692
- ISBN
- 9789401795692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.38
€ 125.38
Hardcover. Documents the profound societal changes that occurred in Accra, the capital city of the Gold Coast colony (modern Ghana), during the peak decades of British colonial rule, 1920-1950. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464949
- ISBN
- 9781580464949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.37
€ 113.37
Paperback. The book is an exploration of the complexities of women's leadership in post-conflict Rwanda and South Africa. Through interviews with women who held political leadership positions in these countries, the book examines their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds. It weaves a link between the complicated relationship Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 1HFMS; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Verlag Barbara Budrich
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783847407454
- ISBN
- 9783847407454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.14
€ 26.99
€ 23.14
Hardcover. Once torn by ideological conflicts and the dominance of command economies, Southern Africa is now moving towards economic liberalism and openness. This book offers a critical insight into the ensuing debate on regionalism and the process of regionalization in Southern Africa. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; JPH; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333748442
- ISBN
- 9780333748442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359654
- ISBN
- 9780822359654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.03
€ 34.99
€ 31.03
Paperback. Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 496 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 238 x 38. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 62041st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323662
- ISBN
- 9780822323662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.47
€ 36.99
€ 33.47
Hardback. Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359463
- ISBN
- 9780822359463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.68
€ 122.68
Hardcover. This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour in conflict. A conceptual framework is suggested for analysing culturally alien practices more broadly and to inform approaches to civilian and military intervention. Num Pages: 188 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HRQX2; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621022
- ISBN
- 9780230621022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. A penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change in Ghana Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 b&w illus., 22 audio. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AV; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253007292
- ISBN
- 9780253007292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.12
€ 31.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; KCG; KCM; RGCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 573.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662495551
- ISBN
- 9783662495551
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.12
€ 123.12
Hardcover. An empirical and econometric exposition of the conduct, transmission and impact of monetary policy on the South African economy. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; KCBM; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334145
- ISBN
- 9781137334145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03