Author: D. J. M. MuffettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coups d'état
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Let Truth be Told: The coups d'état of nineteen sixty-six
Author: D. J. M. MuffettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coups d'état
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
African Intelligence Services
Author: Ryan ShafferPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538150832
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book argues for making African intelligence services front-and-center in studies about historical and contemporary African security. As the first academic anthology on the subject, it brings together a group of international scholars and intelligence practitioners to understand African intelligence services’ post-colonial and contemporary challenges. The book’s eleven chapters survey a diverse collection of countries and provides readers with histories of understudied African intelligence services. The volume examines the intelligence services’ objectives, operations, leaderships, international partners and legal frameworks. The chapters also highlight different methodologies and sources to further scholarly research about African intelligence.
Viceregalism
Author: H. KumarasinghamPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030462838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny. This original study highlights how the Queen’s position has been replicated across continents with surprising results. It also shows the topicality and contemporary relevance of this historical research to interpret and understand crises of governance and the enduring legacy of monarchy and colonialism to modern politics. This collection uniquely brings together a diverse set of states including specific chapters on England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, Australia, Tuvalu, and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Viceregalism is written and conceptualised to remind that the Crown is not just a ceremonial part of the constitution, but a crucial political and international actor of real importance.
The African Book Publishing Record
Author: Beyond Fairy Tales
Author: Yusufu Bala UsmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Hitler's War
Author: Harry TurtledovePublisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 034551565X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling alternate history, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? In this action-packed chronicle of the war that might have been, Harry Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell the story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China and ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory—and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, at once brilliantly imaginative and hugely entertaining, Hitler’s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II—with a very different fate for our world today. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Harry Turtledove's The War that Came Early: West and East.
Power Broker
Author: Akinjide OsuntokunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
History Research at A.B.U.
Author: Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria
Author: Larry DiamondPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349080802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Honour in African History
Author: John IliffePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521546850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.