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  • France's Wars in Chad

    Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

    by Nathaniel K. Powell ...
    Series Book 150 - African Studies
    Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the subsequent French efforts to counter Libyan ambitions and the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Religion, Theology, and Stranger Things

    Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope

    by Adam J. Powell, Andrew J. Byers, Nathaniel A. Warne Adishian, Vivian Asimos, Melissa Conroy, John Anthony Dunne, Heather Macumber, Brandon R. Grafius, Joseph P. Laycock0, Josh Reeves1, Jana Riess2, Andrew Root3, Dr. Siobhán Jolley4 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Religion, Theology and Stranger Things*: Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope* brings interdisciplinary analysis to the teeming spiritual side of the hit television series. With chapters from social scientists, historians, theologians, and Biblical scholars, the volume addresses the many different theological, religious, and supernatural themes present in the fictional ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Culture, Community, and Educational Success

    Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack

    by Crystal Polite Glover, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, Jemilia S. Davis, Myron C. Duff, Crystal Endsley, Paula Faulkner, Tieka Harris, Janet Haynes, Rhonda B. Jeffries, Anita Rao Mysore, Spencer Platt, Tenisha Powell, Tiera Tanksley, Alicia Nicki Washington, Toni Williams, Arlecia Simmons, Nathaniel Bryan, Nathaniel Frederick II, Adolphus Belk, Kishonna Gray ...
    Series series Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
    Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Africa's World War : Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, And The Making Of A Continental Catastrophe

    by Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Read more

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  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name

    The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    by Jason K. Stearns ...
    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a “forever war”—a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name ... Read more

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  • Algeria

    France's Undeclared War

    by Martin Evans ...
    Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Condemned to Repeat?

    The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

    by Fiona Terry ...
    Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

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  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

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  • The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil

    A Frenchman between France and North Africa

    by William A. Hoisington, Jr. ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership ... Read more

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  • Contemporary France

    Politics and Society since 1945

    by D. L. Hanley, A. P. Kerr, Miss A P Kerr, N. H. Waites ...
    Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section gives a succinct description of the main developments since 1944 in all major contexts - economy, society, domestic politics and foreign relations ... Read more

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  • The Congo Wars

    Conflict, Myth and Reality

    by Doctor Thomas Turner ...
    Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times.In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from ... Read more

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