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Product Description: This volume explores the prehistory of human rights in Zimbabwe. It asks whether there are democratic legacies from pre-colonial polities and what limitations then existed on human rights. It also asks what colonialism contributed to the discourse of human rights and democracy despite its denial of both to Africans...read more

Product Description: In this important contribution to the historiography of Zimbabwe, the authors explore the history of the northwest corner of the country over the course of a century. The analysis ranges from the occupation of the area by Matabele immigrants, to the rise of nationalist feeling and conflicts with the Rhodesian government, to the repression of the area's inhabitants by the government forces of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Violence has powerfully shaped the history of Matabeleland from the 1890s to the 1980s, and silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, excluding it from national memory. This text aims to break the silence and redress the imbalance of Zimbabwe's national history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 'The end of Apartheid', 'the decay of the state', the escape of refugees', 'the increasing fatalities from AIDS' - from crisis to catastrophe, Africa has come to be globalized for media consumption, grossly misrepresented and, above all, marginalised...read more

Product Description: A companion volume to "Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War, " this collection focuses on the beliefs, ideas, and experiences of the Zimbabwean people during and after the war, including the ideas used by whites to justify brutality, and the civilian experiences at the hands of guerrillas and the Fifth Brigade the role of African religion and Christianity in the struggle, and efforts to educate people for a new society postwar political change and the evolution of new ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exploring the link between culture, identity and political action in Britain and Europe, this volume refines the idea of "inventing tradition" and suggests that "imagination of tradition" may be more appropriate. The book sets out to challenge orthodoxies that have dominated the anti-racist debate...read more

Product Description: This collective biography of Thompson Samkange and two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake, illuminates much of the history of African politics in colonial Zimbabwe. But for the Samkanges, the road to politics lay through religion, so this is a history of African involvement in Methodism as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Zimbabwe's Liberation War began with incursions by tiny guerrilla groups and then gathered strength until the white settler regime was forced to negotiate a settlement in 1980. This book looks at the realities of that war and its aftermath, rather than at the comfortable myths and legends. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded here, both idealistic hopes and cynical compromises. This collection is centered on ordinary soldiers and people who sacrificed their lives to achieve advances and victories, as well as those who suffered the consequences of retreats and defeat. It is history told and experienced by the soldiers themselves, not the "official" and "authorized" accounts of leaders and politicians. Various authors compare strategies used by the main players--ZIPRA, ZIPA, ZANLA, and the Rhodesian Forces. They discusses the Nhari rebellion and the March 11 Movement, the Fifth Brigade and the "dissidents." The volume examines the integration of the armies after 1980, the politics of creating war heroes, and life after the war for ex-combatants.

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Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparative recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial ritual in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own...read more

Examines the effects of colonialism on indigenous African societies and the development of central African politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bibliogs