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Historical Dictionary of Algeria
Scarecrow Press 2006; US$ 129.99The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second largest country in Africa. This, coupled with its location near Europe and its prized hydrocarbons (oil and gas), continues to increase Algeria's international importance. Algeria's fight for liberation from French colonialism, which it finally achieved in 1962, was made famous by Gillo Pontecorvo's... more...
Zimbabwe Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Zimbabwe will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Zimbabwe, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
Zimbabwe Travel Complete Profile
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 16.80Whether planning your own trip to Zimbabwe, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
A Desert Named Peace
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 27.99In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence... more...
Becoming Zimbabwe
Weaver Press 2009; US$ 32.95Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced... more...
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Weaver Press 2012; US$ 32.95The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic... more...
Algeria in Transition
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 210.00This book, by providing an up-to-date, systematic analytical account on transformations in Algeria, makes a valuable contribution to the literature on this country that has not yet received much attention in the Anglo-American academy. Its distinctive feature is that it entirely focuses on Algeria, thus departing from existing studies dealing with... more...
The Partition of Africa
Taylor and Francis 1983; US$ 26.95Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching... more...
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Volume 5
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 113.00Conferences, lectures, funding opportunities, and publications now all fully embrace terrorism and counter-terrorism as topics worthy of serious reflection and investigation among criminologists. The papers in this volume bring out the distinct contribution criminologists and criminological sociologists have to offer in the study of counter-terrorism... more...









