Author: ADMIRE. MSEBA
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821425886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 161530312X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book examines the history of southern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent.

Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107198321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.

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Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1144

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author: Kunigunde Böhmer-Bauer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : de
Pages : 556

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Author: Elizabeth MacGonagle
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.

Author: Mark R. Lipschutz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The acclaimed Dictionary of African Historical Biography, the only single-volume biographical work on Sub-Saharan African history, has been expanded and updated to include entries on over eight hundred people important in Sub-Saharan African history up to 1980.

Author: Innocent Pikirayi
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Since the monumental architecture of the Zimbabwe Plateau first became known to Westerners in the 16th century, speculation about the people that created it has been continuous and inventive. Tales of strongholds in the interior were taken home by the first Portuguese chroniclers of the Swahili coast, and their narratives became part of the geographic lore of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the mid-19th century, the lore was spun into fantastic and mysterious yarns about long-lost riches that lured adventurers and traders. Pikirayi (history, U. of Zimbabwe) aims to set the record straight by examining the growth of precolonial states on the plateau and adjacent regions, with a focus on the their historical and cultural development during the second millennium AD. c. Book News Inc.

Author: ABC-Clio Information Services
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Joe Studwell
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193471
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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“A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year” An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished. Studwell’s in-depth analysis focuses on three main areas: land policy, manufacturing, and finance. Land reform has been essential to the success of Asian economies, giving a kick-start to development by utilizing a large workforce and providing capital for growth. With manufacturing, industrial development alone is not sufficient, Studwell argues. Instead, countries need “export discipline,” a government that forces companies to compete on the global scale. And in finance, effective regulation is essential for fostering, and sustaining growth. To explore all of these subjects, Studwell journeys far and wide, drawing on fascinating examples from a Philippine sugar baron’s stifling of reform to the explosive growth at a Korean steel mill. “Provocative . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.” —The Economist