Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Southern Mozambique (Travellers' Wildlife Guides)

Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Southern Mozambique (Travellers' Wildlife Guides)
by William Branch, Chris Stuart, Tilde Stuart
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Mozambique

From the world-famous Kruger National Park in South Africa to Botswana's Okavango Delta, Namibia's Etosha National Park, and Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, ecotravellers want to experience African savannahs, forests, deserts, and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of some of the world's most spectacular wildlife: hornbills and parrots, monkeys and big cats, frogs and toads, crocodiles and snakes. This book provides all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Southern Africa's magnificent animal life. - Identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals. - Up-to-date information on the ecology, behavior, and conservation of the animals. - More than 500 full-color illustrations of Southern Africa's most common amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammal-the species you are most likely to see. - Information about and photos of Southern Africa's major habitat types. - Descriptions and photos of Southern Africa's most frequently visited parks and reserves. Easy-to-carry, entertainingly written, beautifully illustrated-you will want to have this book as constant companion on your journey.

• Rank: #213001 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.22" h x 6.28" w x 8.56" l, 2.26 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

• ISBN13: 9781566566391
• Condition: USED - Good
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Mozambique: Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902

Mozambique: Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902
by Allen Isaacman

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Mozambique

• Rank: #404117 in Books
• Published on: 1972-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Abolishing School Fees in Africa: Lessons Learned in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique (Africa Human Development Series)

Abolishing School Fees in Africa: Lessons Learned in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique (Africa Human Development Series)
by World Bank, UNICEF

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Bay of Tigers

Bay of Tigers
by Pedro Rosa Mendes

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Mozambique

An extraordinary account of Pedro Rosa Mendes's journey across Africa in 1997 - 6000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique - on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles. In war-torn Angola, a country where the landmines outnumber the people, Mendes finds long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the phantom pain in amputated limbs, an apothecary's tent purveying boiled mucumbi bark to combat scurvy lesions in the mouth, and trains crowded with people eating salted fish and drinking beer, swapping tales of local sorcerers who can turn into snakes. He interviews international relief workers and corrupt local officials, widows and orphans, soldiers and survivors, piecing together a rich portrait no history or travel book can match.

• Rank: #305363 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-18
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .54 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 321 pages

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Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution

Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution
by Taisier M. Ali, Robert O. Matthews
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A collection of case studies of nine African countries, "Civil Wars in Africa" provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda as well as the experiences of Tanzania and Zimbabwe, where civil war was averted, to underline conditions under which conflict can most successfully be managed. John Kiyaga-Nsubuga focuses on Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement regime's attempt to bring peace to Uganda. John Prendergast and Mark Duffield look at Ethiopia's long civil war and the role of liberation politics and external engagement. Bruce Jones studies the ethnic roots of the civil war in Rwanda. Elwood Dunn explores political manipulation and ethnic differences as causes of civil strife in Liberia. John Saul examines the role of Western powers in establishing peace in Mozambique. Hussein Adam describes the collapse of the authoritarian regime in Somalia and the subsequent rise of inter-clan and sub-clan rivalry. Taisier Ali and Robert Matthews argue that the forty-year conflict in Sudan is much more complex than the usual view that it results from the pitting of the Arab, Islamic North against the African, Christian South. Shifting the focus to how internal unrest may be managed, Hevina Dashwood examines government initiatives undertaken to maintain stability in Zimbabwe and Cranford Pratt describes the policies and institutions developed by Nyerere that enabled Tanzania to avoid ethnic, regional, and religious factionalism and intra-elite rivalries. James Busumtwi-Sam explores multilateral third-party intervention, highlighting the changing role of the OAU and the United Nations and their effectiveness in averting war. The concluding chapter draws together findings from the individual case studies and incorporates them into the larger corpus of the literature. Taisier M. Ali, formerly professor of political economy at the University of Khartoum, is presently a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Robert O. Matthews is professor of political science, University of Toronto.

• Rank: #205217 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.06" h x .91" w x 6.65" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 322 pages

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Mozambique Sao Tome and Principe: Economics, Politics and Society (Marxist Regimes)

Mozambique Sao Tome and Principe: Economics, Politics and Society (Marxist Regimes)
by Jens Erik Torp, L. M. Denny, Donald I. Ray

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Mozambique

One of the last titles in the "Marxist Regimes" series, this volume covers the two former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and the archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe, which gained independence as single party states within a month of each other in 1975. After placing each state in its historical context, the authors then examine the social, economic and political aspects of the rule by the Frelimo party in Mozambique and the "Movimento de Libertacao de Sao Tome e Principe". Jens Erik Torp has drawn on his time working in the country to write on Mozambique. He focuses on the dynamics of industrial development and its relation to the agriculture, and sees the attempts made to change the country's international economic relations as being particularly significant. The economic situation in Sao Tome and Principe has also played a role in modifying the regime's ability to carry out its preferred policies. It is particularly vulnerable to fluctuations in the world price of cocoa.

• Rank: #177964 in Books
• Published on: 1990-07
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

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Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)

Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)
by Eric Allina

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Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and built a vast forced labor regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilizing mission.

Oral testimonies from more than one hundred Mozambican elders provide a vital counterpoint to the perspectives of colonial officials detailed in the archival records of the Mozambique Company. Putting elders' voices into dialogue with officials' reports, Eric Allina reconstructs this modern form of slavery, explains the impact this coercive labor system had on Africans’ lives, and describes strategies they used to mitigate or deflect its burdens. In analyzing Africans’ responses to colonial oppression, Allina documents how some Africans succeeded in recovering degrees of sovereignty, not through resistance, but by placing increasing burdens on fellow Africans—a dynamic that paralleled developments throughout much of the continent.

This volume also traces the international debate on slavery, labor, and colonialism that ebbed and flowed during the first several decades of the twentieth century, exploring a conversation that extended from the backwoods of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe borderlands to ministerial offices in Lisbon and London. Slavery by Any Other Name situates this history of forced labor in colonial Africa within the broader and deeper history of empire, slavery, and abolition, showing how colonial rule in Africa simultaneously continued and transformed past forms of bondage.

• Rank: #177850 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique

Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique
by Kathleen Sheldon

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Mozambique

This history of women in Mozambique moves from a description of various mid-19th century rural societies to an examination of the impact of structural adjustment and processes of democratization at the end of the 20th century. A discussion of matrilineal and patrilineal kinship systems introduces the history and includes women's contributions to the social and economic lives of their communities. The experiences of women in Portuguese colonialism are then explored with a focus on changes to the work environment and the advent of mission education. Women's involvement in the struggle for liberation and independence is highlighted by specific policies that improved women's lives. Examinations of the 1980s and 1990s follow, including a look at the devastating war with Renamo, and a consideration of the legacy of structural adjustment programs on women's work and politics.

This book is inclusive of all regions in Mozambique and emphasizes the centrality of women's choices and decisions in the development of Mozambican society. Sheldon demonstrates that without the inclusion of women, the history of Mozambique remains incomplete. This is the only history-to-date of women in Mozambique, and one of the few country-specific histories of women in Africa.

• Rank: #275429 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .98" w x 6.14" l, 1.18 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

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Literacy, Power and Democracy in Mozambique: The Governance of Learning from Colonization to the Present (Conflict and Social Change Series)

Literacy, Power and Democracy in Mozambique: The Governance of Learning from Colonization to the Present (Conflict and Social Change Series)
by Judith Marshall

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Mozambique

In this book, the author explores how workers in one post-independence factory made sense of literacy and used it in their daily lives. It probes the extent to which the government literacy programs served as a tool for a more active voice in the shifting power configurations of factory and community, situated within the larger context of Mozambique's option for a socialist development model.

• Rank: #116764 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 215 pages

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Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa Series)

Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa Series)
by Allen Isaacman
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Mozambique

Portuguese officials forced nearly a million African peasants to grow cotton in colonial Mozambique under a regime of coercion, brutality, and terror. The colonial state sought to control almost every aspect of peasant life: growers were told not only what they should produce, but where they should live, how they should organize their labor, and with whom they should trade. A privileged few managed to prosper under the cotton regime, but the great majority were impoverished, as cotton cultivation earned them next to nothing and exposed them to hardship and famine.

Despite their efforts at control, the colonial state could only partially subordinate the rural population. This book explores the lives of Mozambique's cotton producers--their pain and suffering, their coping strategies, and their struggles to survive. Because the study is concerned above all else with the lived experiences of cotton growers, their stories figure prominently; the documentation for this book includes more than 160 interviews- with former cotton growers and their families, but also with African police and overseers, and with Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries, and officials. The producers' own stories, while acknowledging their bleak situation, provide evidence of agency, proactive struggle, and creative adaptation under difficult circumstances.

• Rank: #289012 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .67" w x 5.91" l, .86 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

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Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910 (Social History of Africa Series)

Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910 (Social History of Africa Series)
by Patrick Harries

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Mozambique

Work, Culture, and Identity offers a compelling narrative of the day-to-day life of migrant laborers in Mozambique and South Africa.

• Rank: #298332 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 305 pages

Why Peacekeeping Fails

Why Peacekeeping Fails
by Dennis C. Jett
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Mozambique

Dennis Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while the causes of past peacekeeping failures can be identified, the chances for success will be difficult to improve because of the way such operations are initiated and conducted and the way the United Nations operates as an organization. Jett reviews the history of peacekeeping and the evolution in the number, size, scope, and cost of peacekeeping missions.

• Rank: #267993 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .7" h x .56" w x .83" l, .52 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Mozambique in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)

Mozambique in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
by Thomas Streissguth

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Mozambique

An overview of Mozambique's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean.

• Rank: #1689516 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 6.90" w x 10.00" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Library Binding
• 80 pages

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Modern African Wars (2): Angola and Mozambique 1961-74: Angola and Mozambique, 1961-74 (Men-at-Arms)

Modern African Wars (2): Angola and Mozambique 1961-74: Angola and Mozambique, 1961-74 (Men-at-Arms)
Peter Abbott (Author), Ronald Volstad (Illustrator)
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Mozambique

Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states whose governments were sympathetic to the cause of African nationalism led, in the early 1960s, to a series of wars in Angola (1961–1975), Guiné (1998) and Mozambique (1977). This book details each of these liberation movements, focusing on the equipment, uniforms and organization of the Portuguese forces.


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• Rank: #210248 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-07-19
• Released on: 2011-07-19
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1