Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, Paperback - Nicholas Shaxson

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Reducere. The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlig...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Business Book Award Longlisted for the 2018 BC National Nonfiction Award Bestselling author Chris Turner brings r...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing CoAuthor(s): Charlotte DennettNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 29Cover type: P...

What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

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Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

The story of how undisclosed donations have infiltrated British politics, undermining public faith in democracy and fuelling the rise of populism a...

The story of how undisclosed donations have infiltrated British politics, undermining public faith in democracy and fuelling the rise of populism a...

What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between...

Offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays. This title provides an overview of the k...

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

1876. When newlywed Charles Bravo ingests a rare poison, the evidence suggests suicide. But at the infamous inquest, a coroner rules murder. Antony...

DescriptionThe nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved, " and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising, " African ...

The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating s...

Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection en...

Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promote...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

Reducere. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was kn...

Publisher: 1517 MediaAuthor(s): Cyril OrjiNumber of pages: 259Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 16 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Tables, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jeff D. (Director of Security Studies, Director of Security Studies, Watson Institute of Internati...

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