Africa
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From  NEW! Confronting ApartheidFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene describes a personal encounter with apartheid in South Africa, where racial segregation permeated daily life. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Congo Free State and Its Formation1874–1908 From: Postcards from Congo |
This chapter explores the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium from 1874 to 1908. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Contacts: Prejudice from Overseas |
In this chapter, Filippi examines how Italian media and propaganda constructed a “civilizing” narrative to justify colonial expansion across Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, and Ethiopia from … | Francesco Filippi | 38 | 2024 | $3.80 Add |
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From Departures: Unplanned Birth of an Imperial Power |
In this chapter, Filippi traces the origins of Italian colonialism, from the House of Savoy’s slave-trade connections to the creation of the Eritrea colony in 1890. | Francesco Filippi | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Early HistoryPre-1874 From: Postcards from Congo |
This chapter explores the early history of the Congo region before colonization began in 1874. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Early Years of Belgian Congo1908–1930 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the creation of the official colonial regime of the Belgian Congo from 1908 to 1930. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Economic Decline and Infrastructural Decay in Zaire1975–1993 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the economic decline and infrastructure decay in Mobutu’s Zaire from 1975 until 1993. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! ForewordFrom: Postcards from Congo |
Foreword by Dr. Didier Gondola, professor of African History at John Hopkins University. | Edmund Trueman | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  From his Rwandan Home, Banished a Wand’rer Came |
In Chapter 14, Philpot discusses his meeting with Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former burgomaster of Taba Commune and the first man in history to be convicted of genocide, rape, and other crimes … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Ghana, 1966 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk explores Canada’s role in the 1966 military overthrow of Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, a leader widely celebrated across the continent. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From How Is the Empire? |
In Chapter 7, Philpot examines the meaning behind former Secretary General Boutros-Ghali’s 1998 statement that “the Americans were one hundred percent responsible” for the … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Humanitarianism and the Invention of EmergencyFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … | Maximilian C. Forte | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From In the Name of Peace and Democracy |
In Chapter 2, Philpot discusses the larger political atmosphere of the Great Lakes region in East Africa before the war, and how with the aid of the Western powers, Paul Kagame, and the Rwandan … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Independence and Chaos1960–1961 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the creation of the independent Republic of Congo and the ensuing political fall out between 1960 and 1961. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From International Criminal Justice as "Battering Ram" |
In Chapter 13, Philpot examines the ad hoc criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He does this to discuss the injustice and inept of the tribunal, which the founding resolution … | Robin Philpot | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From IntroductionLiberalism and the New Scramble for Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
Maximilian C. Forte | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add |
