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  • Across the Copperbelt

    Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities

    by Miles Larmer, Hikabwa D. Chipande, Rita Kesselring, David M. Gordon, Christian Straube, Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jennifer Chibamba Chansa, Amandine Lauro, Donatien DIBWE dia Mwembu, Stephanie Laemmert0, Enid Guene2, Benoît Henriet4, Iva Pesa5, Rachel Taylor6, Duncan Money7 ...
    The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. This volume expands upon earlier studies of industrial mining, male-dominated formal labour organisation and political change by examining both sides of the border from pre-colonial history to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Invisible Agents

    Spirits in a Central African History

    by David M. Gordon ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in the visible world, these beliefs form the basis for individual and collective ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • After the Waste Land

    Democratic Economics for the Year 2000

    by Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf ...
    This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America

    Edited by David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech III ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as “indigenous” resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Fat and Mean

    The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the

    by David M. Gordon ...
    Since the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued this strategy-often in the wake of mergers and acquisitions that left them with an unwieldy layer of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Across the Copperbelt

    Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities

    by Miles Larmer, Hikabwa D. Chipande, Rita Kesselring, David M. Gordon, Christian Straube, Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jennifer Chibamba Chansa, Amandine Lauro, Donatien DIBWE dia Mwembu, Stephanie Laemmert0, Enid Guene2, Benoît Henriet4, Iva Pesa5, Rachel Taylor6, Duncan Money7 ...
    The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. ... Read more

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    Africa in the World

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    Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in ... Read more

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  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age of Liberalism

    A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc

    by Naomi E. S. Griffiths ...
    This book explores the life and times of Roméo LeBlanc, one of Canada's most popular and successful politicians and statesmen. Probably best known as the long-standing fisheries minister in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet from 1974 to 1982, LeBlanc's career spanned the golden era of Liberalism in Canada. He capped his career during the nineties as the country's twenty-fifth governor general.Historian ... Read more

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  • The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

    by Robert H. Frank ...
    Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's ... Read more

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  • A Certain Amount of Madness

    The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

    by Horace G. Campbell, Aziz Fall ...
    Series series Black Critique
    Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014.This book looks at Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, Fourth Edition

    by Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin, Kim Nossal ...
    Series Book 188 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    This book analyses the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada. Taking a broad historical perspective, it provides the key foundations for the analysis of Canadian foreign policy. It argues that foreign policy is forged in the nexus of politics at three levels-the global, the domestic, and the governmental-and that to understand how and why Canadian foreign policy looks as ... Read more

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