Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300060751
Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower's presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.
Author : Cedric Phillips
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1524662240
Although the idea of a continuous British dominion from the Cape Colony to Cairo in Egypt was first formulated by William Gladstone and Sir Rutherford Alcock and summed up by Sir Edwin Arnold in the phrase From Cape to Cairo, it was Cecil Rhodes who finally embraced this dream as a viable project. This book outlines how close the dream came to reality as far as Central Africa was concerned and why, in the end, it was the impossible dream.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0465013104
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (Washington Post) The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government -- all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made Niall Ferguson one of the world's foremost historians, Empire is a dazzling tour de force -- a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.
Author : Hastings Kamuzu Banda
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Malawi
ISBN :
Author : Hopeton S. Dunn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303054169X
This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.
Author : Kate Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317425359
White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of patriarchy, constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book, which places itself amongst other "new imperial histories", argues that the reality of the situation, is of course, much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia, Gendering the Settler State provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise, arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism, gender, race and colonialism.
Author : Douglas Howland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0253220165
The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.
Author : Nicholas Mansergh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1349169528
Author : Victor Muchineripi Gwande
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category :
ISBN : 1847013333
A key book on Zimbabwe's industrial policy and the relationship between manufacturing, the state, and economic interest groups.
Author : Andrew Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1838609628
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew Cohen of the Colonial Office to create a Central African Federation. Drawing on newly released archival material, The Politics and Economics of Decolonization offers a fresh examination of Britain's central African territories in the late colonial period and provides a detailed assessment of how events in Britain, Africa and the UN shaped the process of decolonization. The author situates the Central African Federation - which consisted of modern day Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi - in its wider international context, shedding light on the Federation's complex relationships with South Africa, with US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy and with the expanding United Nations. The result is an important history of the last days of the British Empire and the beginnings of a more independent African continent.
