Fighting the mau mau, Bennett, Huw (university College Of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Автор: Luise White Название: Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar ISBN: 1478011726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478011729 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3630.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were independent, White finds a robust and contentious conversation about race, difference, and the war itself. These are writings by men who were ambivalent conscripts, generally aware of the futility of their fight—not brutal pawns flawlessly executing the orders and parroting the rhetoric of a racist regime. Moreover, most of these men insisted that the most important aspects of fighting a guerrilla war—tracking and hunting, knowledge of the land and of the ways of African society—were learned from black playmates in idealized rural childhoods. In these memoirs, African guerrillas never lost their association with the wild, even as white soldiers boasted of bringing Africans into the intimate spaces of regiment and regime.
Описание: The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop culture. In this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques, Obi maps the translation of numerous physical combat techniques across three continents and several centuries to illustrate how these practices evolved over time and are still recognizable in American culture today. Some of these art traditions were part of African military training while others were for self-defense and spiritual discipline.Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological methodologies, Obi's investigation traces the influence of well-delineated African traditions on long-observed but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America. Likewise Obi connects images of the kalenda African stick-fighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution. Throughout the study Obi examines the ties between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of honor.Including forty-five illustrations, this rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world offers a new vantage for furthering our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our collective social history.
700 years of people in Scotland, England, Europe, and the world fighting for freedom, sovereignty, independence and justice are investigated in the essential periods and cultures since the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath: the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Early Modern Age, the English Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Cultural, media, political, and social studies, history, the law, art, philosophy, and literature are used for an analysis of the evolution of human rights, democracy, freedom, individual as well as national independence and justice in connection with past and present threats to them. Threats from politics, the economy, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, people's ignorance.
With contributions by Alasdair Allan MSP, Christopher J. Berry, Neil Blain, Alexander Broadie FRSE, Dauvit Broun, Mark P. Bruce, Ewen A. Cameron, Robert Crawford, Ian Duncan, Richard J. Finlay, David Forrest, Edouard Gaudot, Marjory Harper, Sarah Longlands, Ben McConville, David McCrone, Aileen McHarg, John Morrison, Klaus Peter M?ller, Hugh O’Donnell, Murray Pittock, Anthony Salamone, David R. Sorensen, Silke Stroh, Christopher A. Whatley and Ben Wray.
Автор: Vince, Natalya Название: Our fighting sisters ISBN: 1526106574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526106575 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 6541.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. -- .
Автор: Roy, Kaushik (jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) Название: Fighting rommel ISBN: 0367265702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367265700 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. It will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history and defence and strategic studies.
Автор: Roy Kaushik Название: Fighting Rommel ISBN: 0367358247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367358242 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. It will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history and defence and strategic studies.
Автор: Johnson Rw Название: Fighting for the Dream ISBN: 1868429571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781868429578 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3432.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
RW JOHNSON'S BEST-SELLING How Long Will South Africa Survive? was hailed by financial writer Alec Hogg as 'a masterpiece in unblemished reality'. Published at the height of the Zuma presidency, it accurately forecast that South Africa's credit rating would be downgraded to junk status. Johnson warned that this sorry progress might end in an IMF bail-out and wholesale change to the political system.
These predictions, novel at the time, were quickly confirmed by events. Now, with Cyril Ramaphosa in the hot seat and an election looming. Johnson picks up the story, analysing how Ramaphosa came to power and how Zuma has fought back. Recovery from the deep economic damage caused by Zuma will not be easy and the prospect of an IMF bail-out is now measurably closer. The key question is whether Ramaphosa and his supporters can restore the lost dream of the Mandela years.
Johnson is easily the most incisive analyst of the South African situation. He offers his own suggestions for a road out of the crisis and a tough-minded assessment of where the country stands at this critical hour.
Описание: Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalite of struggle in Kenya, which reached a peak during the Mau Mau War of the 1950s. This struggle continues to resonate in Kenya today through the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all.
Автор: Mwanzia Koster Mickie Название: The Power of the Oath: Mau Mau Nationalism in Kenya, 1952-1960 ISBN: 1580465463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580465465 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Opens a fresh conversation on the study of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan history by arguing that Mau Mau was a nationalist movement rather than a Kikuyu war.
Автор: Osborne Название: The Life And Times Of General China ISBN: 1558765972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558765979 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book's central focus is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya colony during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya -and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history: how Africans fought for the end of colonial rule, and the complex histories of nationalist movements; how Britain tried to handle such resistance; the wider moment of decolonisation on the world stage; and how past conflicts still have contemporary relevance.
Автор: Alam Название: Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya ISBN: 1403983747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403983749 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.
Автор: Osborne Название: The Life And Times Of General China ISBN: 1558765964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558765962 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 14692.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.
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