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  • Precolonial Communities in Postcolonial Africa

    The Resilience of Indigenous Groups in Contemporary Politics

    This collection takes on one of the most important and vexing issues in African development - the role played by African states in under-development on the continent - and shows how empowering resilient precolonial communities offers under-explored routes forward.Rather than comparing African states to states elsewhere, this book takes a unique bottom-up approach and compares how major ethnic ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Patriarchy and the Politics of Beauty

    Political philosophers from the beginning of history have articulated the significance of beauty. Allan D. Cooper argues that these writings are coded to justify patriarchal structures of power, and that each epoch of global history has reflected a paradigm of beauty that rationalizes protocols of gender performance. Patriarchy is a system of knowledge that trains men to become soldiers but is now ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Shadow that Lingers

    What Slavery Teaches Us about Freedom

    Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and anti-colonial struggles. The corpus of human rights law that has evolved over the past two centuries is constructed around the negation of slavery. This book analyzes how slavery mutated into racial identification that governments enforce against their own ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership positions for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Geography of Genocide

    The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from emasculating political defeats experienced by perpetrator groups and examines whether such extreme political violence is the product of a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • U.S. Economic Power And Political Influence In Namibia, 1700-1982

    This first comprehensive examination of U.S. relations with Namibia offers a critical analysis of the economic and historical determinants of current U.S. policy in southern Africa. Dr. Cooper first traces American ties to Namibia dating from the 1700s, documenting an extensive commercial interest in the area prior to German colonization. Subsequen ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The White Man's Burden

    Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

    **From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world."Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." —BusinessWeek**In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wars, Guns, and Votes

    Democracy in Dangerous Places

    by Paul Collier ...
    An expert on developing nations offers "accessible and very sensible analysis" of America's promotion of democracy abroad—and why it often fails ( Publishers Weekly).Oxford economist Paul Collier gives an eye-opening assessment of the corruption and political violence that plague developing nations across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While many of these governments meet America's standards for ... Read more

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The End of the Free Market

    Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    Understanding the rise of state capitalism and its threat to global free marketsThe End of the Free Market details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies and large pools of excess capital, using them for political gain. This trend threatens America's competitive edge and the conduct of free ... Read more

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  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

    $21.89 USD