Resultados de Pesquisa

INGLÊS

Powerful Frequencies - Radio, State Power, And The Cold War In Angola, 1931â€“2002

de Marissa J. Moorman

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.
INGLÊS

Much Matter In A Penny Paper - Early Yoruba Print Culture In Lagos, 1910â€“1930

de Karin Barber

~~37,84€~~ 34,06€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 This book examines the emergence of YorÃ¹bÃ¡-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.
INGLÊS

Much Matter In A Penny Paper - Early Yoruba Print Culture In Lagos, 1910â€“1930

de Karin Barber

~~124,37€~~ 111,93€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 This book examines the emergence of YorÃ¹bÃ¡-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.
INGLÊS

Preparing The Modern Meal - Urban Capitalism And Working-Class Food In Kenya'S Port City

de Devin Smart

~~124,37€~~ 111,93€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 This book explores how twentieth-century urban capitalism created a new food system in East Africaâ€™s most important port city: Mombasa, Kenya. Inside households, the dynamics of urban life changed the gendered structures of cooking, while new businesses emerged to sell food to working-class communities that now had to rely on cash to acquire their daily sustenance.
INGLÊS

Elusive Histories - Mozambican Migrant Laborers In Rhodesia, Ca. 1900â€“1980

de Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman e Joy M. Chadya

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 Making visible the hundreds of thousands of Mozambican men and women who made their lives in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Elusive Histories offers rich insights into the social history of labor migration and the experience of racism, and it rebukes the idea that arbitrary borders determine where and how a person belongs.
INGLÊS

Elusive Histories - Mozambican Migrant Laborers In Rhodesia, Ca. 1900â€“1980

de Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman e Joy M. Chadya

~~97,34€~~ 87,61€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 Making visible the hundreds of thousands of Mozambican men and women who made their lives in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Elusive Histories offers rich insights into the social history of labor migration and the experience of racism, and it rebukes the idea that arbitrary borders determine where and how a person belongs.
INGLÊS

The Morality Of Revolution - Reeducation Camps And The Politics Of Punishment In Socialist Mozambique, 1968â€“1990

de Benedito Luis Machava

~~37,84€~~ 34,06€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimoâ€™s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the partyâ€™s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
INGLÊS

Moroccan Modernism

de Holiday Powers

~~37,84€~~ 34,06€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 The Casablanca School artists shaped the Moroccan experience of modernism through their visual arts activism. Here Powers explores their work to advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in the transnational anticolonial, pan-African, and pan-Arab intellectual movements that defined the era.
INGLÊS

Society, Power, And Land In Northeastern Zimbabwe, Ca. 1560â€“1960

de Admire Mseba

32,84€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
INGLÊS

Available Light - Omar Badsha And The Struggle For Change In South Africa

de Daniel Magaziner

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 Tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Magaziner chronicles how art and politics became intertwined in South Africa and explains what it takes to maintain a critical aesthetic approach to political crises in the past and present.
INGLÊS

Hornyheads, Madtoms, And Darters - Narratives On Central Appalachian Fishes

de Stuart A. Welsh

28,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Central Appalachia hosts a dazzling array of fish species that attracts robust scientific and recreational interests. Stuart A. Welsh draws on the work of early modern naturalists to examine central Appalachian fishes in terms of the food chain, conservation, climate change, and more as he considers these important creatures and their waterways.
INGLÊS

Imagine Lagos - Mapping History, Place, And Politics In A Nineteenth-Century African City

de Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi

~~37,84€~~ 34,06€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 Combining archival research with a digital humanitiesâ€"focused examination of cartography, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi reveals the gendered, spatial, and environmental responses to historical, political, and social change in mid-nineteenth-century Lagos, Nigeria.
INGLÊS

Apartheid’S Leviathan - Electricity And The Power Of Technological Ambivalence

de Faeeza Ballim

31,68€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africaâ€™s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nationâ€™s mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.
INGLÊS

Gardening For Moths - A Regional Guide

de Chelsea Gottfried e Jim Mccormac

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Loaded with stunning color photographs, this practical guidebook, which encompasses the identification of moths, their caterpillars, and their vital roles in midwestern ecosystems, shows gardeners how to use native plants to attract these essential, but often overlooked and misunderstood, insects.
INGLÊS

Apartheid'S Leviathan - Electricity And The Power Of Technological Ambivalence

de Faeeza Ballim

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africaâ€™s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nationâ€™s mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.
INGLÊS

A Language For The World - The Standardization Of Swahili

de Morgan J. Robinson

0,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahiliâ€"a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabetâ€"argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
INGLÊS

Spear - Mandela And The Revolutionaries

de Paul S. Landau

35,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandelaâ€™s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africaâ€™s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
INGLÊS

A Language For The World - The Standardization Of Swahili

de Morgan J. Robinson

40,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahiliâ€"a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabetâ€"argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
INGLÊS

To Speak And Be Heard - Seeking Good Government In Uganda, Ca. 1500â€“2015

de Holly Elisabeth Hanson

36,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Through detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Ugandaâ€™s strategies for good governmentâ€"assembly, assent, and powerful giftsâ€"and explains why East African party politics often fail.
INGLÊS

Spear - Mandela And The Revolutionaries

de Paul S. Landau

39,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandelaâ€™s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africaâ€™s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
INGLÊS

Victory On Two Fronts - The Cleveland Indians And Baseball Through The World War Ii Era

de Scott H. Longert

25,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Like other teams, the Cleveland Indians suffered as World War II drained rosters and distracted fans. But in 1945, star pitcher Bob Feller returned from naval service and was soon joined by the American Leagueâ€™s first Black players: Larry Doby and Satchel Paige. This book shows how, in 1948, they led the Indians to a World Series championship.
INGLÊS

Safari Nation - A Social History Of The Kruger National Park

de Jacob S. T. Dlamini

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Safari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africaâ€™s national parksâ€"often derided by scholars as colonial impositionsâ€"survived the end of white rule on the continent.
INGLÊS

The Politics Of Disease Control - Sleeping Sickness In Eastern Africa, 1890â€“1920

de Mari K. Webel

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health interventionâ€"the sleeping sickness campâ€"in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.
INGLÊS

The Great Upheaval - Women And Nation In Postwar Nigeria

de Judith A. Byfield

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of womenâ€™s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.
A carregar resultados...

Ver mais resultados