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  • The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

    by Erik Kennes, Miles Larmer ...
    A history of the 1960s unrecognized state's army and their role in Central Africa's political and military conflicts.Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living for the City

    Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt

    by Miles Larmer ...
    Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what ... Read more

    $32.79 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 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

  • Turning Points in African Democracy

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Nic Cheeseman, Patricia Daley, Tarik Dahou, Vincent Foucher, Lindsay Whitfield, Lindsay Whitfield, Eric Morier-Genoud, Francis Akindes, Jeremy Seekings0, Jocelyn Alexander1, Miles Larmer2 ...
    Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent?The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rethinking African Politics

    A History of Opposition in Zambia

    by Miles Larmer ...
    Series series Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
    In 1964 Kenneth Kaunda and his United National Independence Party (UNIP) government established the nation of Zambia in the former British colony of Northern Rhodesia. In parallel with many other newly independent countries in Africa this process of decolonisation created a wave of optimism regarding humanity's capacity to overcome oppression and poverty. Yet, as this study shows, in Zambia as in ... Read more

    $73.99 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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  • The Future of Europe

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    A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution

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  • Contemporary France

    An Introduction to French Politics and Society

    by David Howarth, Georgios Varouxakis ...
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    Germany's Strategic Hegemony

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