Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980, Paperback - Guy Vanthemsche

This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from th...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Stephen RookesIllustration(s): 136 b/w photos, 2 colour photos, 20 colour profiles, 9 maps, 35 tablesNumber o...

Philip's Handy Road Atlas of France, Belgium and The Netherlands features new digital cartography from Philip's - voted Britain's clearest and most...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): Matthew G. StanardIllustration(s): 10 photographs, 1 chartNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2...

The newly updated, full-color Rough Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg is the definitive guide to this underrated corner of Europe. Detailed accounts ...

Walking in the Ardennes covers 32 day walks between 2 and 24km and one multi-stage route, the Sentier du Nord. The Ardennes region in southern Belg...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Charles TownshendNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 24Cover type: Paperback /...

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Reducere. DescriptionSet during the waning years of the Victorian era, 1885-1900, this historical novel tells the compelling tale of the creation and early y...

Reducere. In 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupied with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Naz...

Featuring the works of key Scottish painters and sculptors between 1885 and 1965.Publisher: National Galleries of ScotlandAuthor(s): Alice StrangIl...

Reducere. Places are chosen for purpose, even if they are covered with concrete for centuries. The land of Belgium has been given a mandate to bring counsel ...

Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, an...

An essential exploration of the DRC's hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam HochschildPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Jules MarchalTranslator: Martin ...

Dinkin has made a big mistake - he's invented something he's scared of! But before he can destroy it, it is stolen: can he find it again and save t...

This first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after France's nineteenth-century revolution with new interpretations of th...

DescriptionIn August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgia...

For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London. The SAS rescued 19 hostages with nea...

DescriptionLonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Belgium & Luxembourg is your passport to the most relevant...

Reducere. This memoir is gentle, insightful, and spirited by turns. It offers glimpses of a lost fragment of Africa that has since been overcome by circumsta...

This book covers in breadth issues of change, continuity, and cause and consequence. It will enable you to understand and make connections between ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jean-Luc (l'USINE, Belgium) WertzIllustration(s): 55 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Halftones, black ...

Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recountin...

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Presents a contemporary natural history of okapi, a relative of the giraffe. This book recounts its discovery by European explorers, and describes ...

DescriptionCardinal D sir -Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation durin...

Anna Gain is never late for the bus. But when a series of bizarre events has her re-living the same sixty seconds again ... and again ... and again...

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya's late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

The search for diamonds, a crucial scientific breakthrough and a mythical ruined city set off this adventure into the heart of the Congolese jungle...

Djordje Sredanovic goes beyond the theory of citizenship and nationality policy to explore how it is carried out in practice. The book draws on int...

Reducere. Murder. Chaos. Outrage.This was the mode in Texas' capital city, Austin from 1884 to 1885. The city had been haunted by a string of bloody murders....

DescriptionIf wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a...

Reducere. The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): D. G. WrightNumber of pages: 168Collection: Seminar StudiesPublication date: 1970Dimensions: 213 x 130 x ...

A fresh introduction to the ICC through immersion in the first three trials, where legal rules met the surprising complexities of central African a...

This book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul's efforts to prevent it. It shows how, ju...

Alec had never been to Belgium, so it came as some surprise when he found himself at the altar of a small church in Flanders, reciting wedding vows...

Reducere. In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Prisons Information GroupIllustration(s): 5 B-W IllustrationsTranslator: Erik BeranekNumber of p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, ...

An innovative, inter-disciplinary examination of how the International Criminal Court came to be framed as a 'catalyst' for domestic accountability...

Graphic account of the defence of the Belgian fortress line against the Germans in 1940.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Clayton DonnellI...