Rogue Empires. Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa, Hardback - Steven Press

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a p...

The history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocid...

Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19t...

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mostafa MinawiThe Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist effo...

3rd edition. Second major revision of this key study, originally published in 1974, fully revised and updated in the new Seminar Studies in History...

*the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mark Antony SheadIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 170Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 196 x 368 ...

DescriptionFrom the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mas...

This book provides students, practitioners and academics with an overview of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CI...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The British S...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Th...

Reducere. An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...

Despite an increase in the number of EU and government initiatives in their favor, the situation of Roma in Europe has only worsened.

By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entan...

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 ...

Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conve...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

Steven Paas (Ph.D.) started compiling the words and explanations in this dictionary in 1997, when preparing for his teaching at the Zomba Theologic...

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, not...

The most significant unanticipated costs on many construction projects are the financial impacts associated with delay and disruption to the works....

Publisher: DamianiAuthor(s): Steven ThackstonIllustration(s): Illustrated throughoutPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 251 x 222 x 26Cover type: Har...

Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of A...

Reducere. Word scramble puzzles brings hours of entertainment and also does more of the following;Improve the brain's cognitive ability, mental acuity and pa...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Steven A. RamirezNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 238 x 161 x 28Cover type: Har...

This book aims to demonstrate how sustainable intensification (SI) of smallholder livelihood farming systems can be achieved through the delivery, ...

When running your own business, it can be easy to believe that contracts can wait. But getting the best (or avoiding the worst) from contracts is o...

This volume uses thirteen case studies to analyze the impact of economic globalization on poverty and inequality in different regions of the develo...

Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, ...

Publisher: Cambria PressIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 232 x 157 x 34Cover type:...

Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter - Lawrence A. Cunningham

Reducere. Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push Franc...

The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious express...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 260Collection: Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political EconomyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

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 ...

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

Decolonizing Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonizing education in the global South, focusing on the highly illu...

Reducere. From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne'er-do-wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. Between 1850 and 1950 lawle...

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Miranda (Independent Scholar, UK) VickersIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 240Publication date...

Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.Illustrations: 3 Line ...

Gagliardone looks at the complexities which characterise the evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Ethiopia, and in Afr...