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The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba
The History Press 2013; US$ 14.57In the heart of south-central Africa lies an ancient and ruined civilization comprising several thousand stone structures - many as large as modern towns - all surrounded by thousands of abandoned gold mines. The monuments, temples, forts and sculptures of the Zimbabwe culture are reminiscent of the classic civilizations of the Egyptians and Phoenicians.... more...
Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 95.00This is a social history of memory, violence, and landscape in the Honde Valley in eastern Zimbabwe, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. It shows how sense is made of violence through mediations between negotiations of the present, imaginations of the future, and memories of the past. The concept of violence is re-examined through the prism... more...
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00A study of the ways in which debates around ethnicity and other identities in Zimbabwe-and in Matabeleland in particular-relate to wider issues in both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present. more...
The Battle of the Casbah
Enigma Books 2012; US$ 10.99This book is particularly relevant to the current debate on terrorism. That story constitutes the main part of this book. It details the methods used, including torture and summary executions, and the results obtained by the paratrooper commando units led more...
Algerians without Borders
University Press of Florida 2012; US$ 74.95This account of Algeria through its migratory history begins in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by looking at forced migration through the slave trade. It moves through the colonial era and continues into Algerias turbulent postcolonial experience. 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...
Selous Scouts
Helion & Company 2011; US$ 16.99"Its members consisted of some of the finest guerrilla-fighting men in the western world, unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade-ground discipline, unorthodox in their dress, yet a force so tightly knit in the face of danger that those who knew anything about them could only marvel" - The Citizen. Formed in 1973 by the legendary... more...
Algeria
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 26.99Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of... more...
Morgan Tsvangirai: At the Deep End
Eye Books 2011; US$ 14.99Morgan Tsvangirai's dramatic political battle with Zimbabwe?s dictatorial monolith Robert Mugabe stands as one of the most intriguing and important world events of recent times?this is his autobiography From village life as the son of a humble carpenter to struggling for power with Mugabe as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, this is Morgan... more...









