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  • The Human Factor in Changing Africa

    by Melville J. Herskovits ...
    Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • EngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization

    Edited by H.C. Rodrigues, J. Herskovits, C.M. Mota Soares, A.L. Araújo, J.M. Guedes, J.O. Folgado, F. Moleiro, J. F. A. Madeira ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The papers in this volume focus on the following topics: design optimization and inverse problems, numerical optimization techniques,efficient analysis and reanalysis techniques, sensitivity analysis and industrial applications. The conference EngOpt brings together engineers, applied mathematicians and computer scientists working on research, development and practical application of optimization ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

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    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
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    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • International Law

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    by Vaughan Lowe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and ... Read more

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  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations

    by Garrett W Brown, Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This bestselling dictionary contains over 1,700 entries on all aspects of politics and international relations. Written by a leading team of political scientists, it embraces the multi-disciplinary spectrum of political theory including political thinkers, history, institutions, theories, and schools of thought, as well as notable current affairs that have shaped attitudes to politics. Fully ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to International Law

    Edited by James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ... Read more

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  • Citizen and Subject

    Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism

    by Mahmood Mamdani, Mahmood Mamdani ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • International Law

    by Vaughan Lowe ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates. The opening chapters of the book explain how international law underpins the international political and economic system by establishing the basic principle of the independence of States, and their right to choose their own political, economic, and cultural systems. Subsequent ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Decolonial Marxism

    Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

    by Walter Rodney ...
    **"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa."–Professor Winston McGowanA previously unpublished collection of Walter Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era**Early in life, Walter Rodney became a ... Read more

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  • Purity and Exile

    Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania

    by Liisa H. Malkki ...
    In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi."Through extensive fieldwork in two refugee communities, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

    Edited by John Parker, Richard Reid ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is ... Read more

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  • History and Power in the Study of Law

    New Directions in Legal Anthropology

    Edited by June Starr, Jane F. Collier ...
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    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed ... Read more

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