Books from James Currey
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African Local Knowledge and Livestock Health: Diseases and Treatments in South Africa
By Karen Brown, William Beinart, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations William BeinartYet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere of local knowledge.
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Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Africa
By Bruce Berman, John LonsdaleSpencer , Beauttah , pp . 108–9 ; Governor Mitchell to Secretary of State , 12 November 1951 : PRO , CO822 / 429 . 656. Wa Kinyatti , Thunder from the Mountains , pp . 60-1 , ' Women of Murang'a ' ballad . 657.
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African Local Knowledge and Livestock Health: Diseases and Treatments in South Africa
By Karen Brown, William BeinartA much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, informed by a strong understanding of history.
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Individual Freedoms & State Security in the African Context: The Case of Zimbabwe
By John HatchardScarman , L. ( 1974 ) English Law : The New Dimension , London , Stevens . Scarman , L. ( 1987 ) Human Rights in an Unwritten Constitution ' Denning Law Journal , p.129 .
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Got the Baby, Where's the Manual: Respectful Parenting from Birth Through the Terrific Twos
By Joanne Baumstory Amy : One day , when my son was about a month shy of three years old , I arrived at day care to pick him up and found a little plastic baggy in his cubby with a little rock inside and a note , “ Dan's rock .
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Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts
By Thomas McNamara, Benjamin Rubbers, James MusondaA groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent.
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Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa
Examines the complex sociologies, politics and histories of the debates that arose after the death of Kenyan lawyer S.M.Otieno and the struggle over where his body should be buried.
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Fischer's Mastery of Surgery
By E. Christopher Ellison, Josef E. Fischer, Peter K. HenkeSelected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022! Here are the core procedures every general surgeon needs to master, in step-by-step detail with commentary from experts in the field.
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Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya
By Edward I. SteinhartIn 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the poaching crisis that was then spreading across the African continent. This brought...
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Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster
By Susanna Hoffman, Anthony Oliver-SmithUsing a variety of natural and technological events, including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Oaklands firestorm, and theBhopal gas disaster, the ...
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The Soul Searchers 1968-1978: A Decade of Memories
By Lloyd A. PinchbackA ten-year account of the genesis and evolution of Washington, DC's Soul Searchers band; from 1968, the year Chuck Brown, John Euell, and Lloyd Pinchback exited the Los Latinos to form the Soul Searchers, to 1978, the year Chuck Brown and ...
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The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
By Éric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen, Domingos M. do RosárioAiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better understand the history, complexity and multiple dynamics of the armed conflict.
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General History of Africa Complete Set of Vols 1-8 (pbks)
By J. Ki-Zerbo et alThe series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.
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El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
By Raymond E. DumettGold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of Ghana. This text examines the period of transition from traditional mining systems to mechanized, capitalized mining companies in the Akan area of the Gold Coast.
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Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone
By David KeenThe United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of `the New Barbarism', it...
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General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
By Andreas Eckert, Stefano BellucciThe first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
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African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
By Mariana P. CandidoNo description available.
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Renamo: Terrorism in Mozambique
By Alex Vines"Vines's encyclopedic book provides essential information about this successful rebel movement which continues to be dangerous for the Mozambican government, even though South Africa has disengaged from its day-to-day operations.
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Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History
By Landeg White, Leroy VailVail and White present the case for the dynamism of oral culture and the active role of poets and poetry in Southern African history. North America: The University Press of Virginia
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Kakungulu & the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928
By Michael TwaddleKakungulu & the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928