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Author : Virginia Thompson,Richard Adloff
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118443584
Author : Emizet Francois Kisangani,Scott F. Bobb
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863255
The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks back at the nearly 48 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on civil wars, mutinies, notable people, places, events, and cultural practices.
Author : John Frank Clark,Samuel Decalo
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810849198
Previously published as: Historical dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / by Emizet Franocois Kisangani and F. Scott Bobb. 2010.
Author : Emizet Francois Kisangani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442273160
This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great Lakes Region and Africa, in particular, as well as its important role in the international environment.. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Author : Pierre Kalck
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0810849135
Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic, Third Edition, fills the gap in the literature about a country for which very little information exists in English, covering events that have taken place since the publication of the last edition in 1992. Substantial new material covers the persons, events, institutions, and parties that have played a significant role in the history of the Central African Republic. A list of acronyms and abbreviations, an extensive chronology, and an introductory essay complement the more than 800 dictionary entries. The bibliography profiles the available literature, and provides numerous journal articles and websites as sources of current events and developments.
Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh,Mark W. Delancey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810873995
Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
Author : F. Scott Bobb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023667541
Entries explain important concepts, events, figures, and contributing factors to the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They look at 30 years of dictatorship, almost 40 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and earlier groups and kingdoms that shared the territory. Includes a guide to name changes, a chronology, a political map, and a map of mines and infrastructure, plus tables on trade, production, and the economy.
Author : Richard Bradshaw,Juan Fandos-Rius
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879928
The Central African Republic (CAR) came into existence on 1 December 1958 as a semi-autonomous member state of the Communauté (French Community), meaning that France still controlled its currency, defense, foreign affairs and national security. The history of the CAR can be interpreted in radically different ways. One the one hand the people of Central Africa have suffered enormously at the hands of slave traders, concessionary companies, French colonialists and African rulers, and their country remains largely ‘undeveloped.’ On the other most Central Africans have retained free use of land on which they grow crops and from which they extract numerous valuable resources. Their way of life is in the long run perhaps more sustainable than those of the ‘experts’ who come to assist them. The theme of essential continuity in the history of the CAR is as important, if not more important in the long run, than the themes of violent change, exploitation, and enduring dependence. Deep roots of continuity provide a surprising stability in the face of dramatic and often very painful change on the surface. The Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Central African Republic.
Author : Douglas A. Yates
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538110126
This new fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Gabon brings up to date the political affairs of the country, since the accession to power of Ali Bongo, eldest son of Omar Bongo, the former president-for-life, who died in 2009 after the publication of the third edition. Themes of “continuity” and “change” are present throughout the entries, not only as the Bongo family continues its half century of dynastic rule (there are a dozen Bongos in this new edition), but as the rare primeval tropical rainforests continue to dominate the landscape yet are menaced by destructive logging and palm oil plantations, and as this former French colony after independence continues to collaborate with the French African sphere of influence yet seeks new partners from America and Asia (China, Singapore), and as the country’s numerous ethnic groups perpetuate a multicultural mosaic that is nevertheless threatened by globalization of communications and cultural convergence. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Gabon contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Gabon.
Author : Thomas O'Toole,Janice E. Baker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865457
Thoroughly updated and extensively revised, this 4th edition provides a very solid and substantial guide to a better understanding of this richly endowed but poorly understood nation. Students and others seeking information about the country will find an introductory narrative accounting of Guinea's political and economic history, a chronology that spans the earliest known history of the area to the present day Republic of Guinea, 400 dictionary entries covering the personalities and events that made contemporary Guinea, and an extensive bibliography of current publications.
Author : Peter Karibe Mendy,Richard A. Lobban, Jr.
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810880276
Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political stage prone to military coups d’etats. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Guinea-Bissau tells the long and sometimes unpleasant story. However, like all the country historical dictionaries, it tells it several times and in several ways. First, the chronology traces the history of what became Guinea-Bissau, and this over a period of centuries and not just decades. Then the introduction recounts that history again, providing more insight and understanding, and conveys a good idea of how things are going now. The details follow in the dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, institutions, and events among other things. And the bibliography points to further reading.
Author : Toyin Falola,Ann Genova
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863163
Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has undergone tremendous change shaped by political instability, rapid population growth, and economic turbulence. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on important contemporary issues like AIDS, human rights, petroleum, and faith-based conflict.
Author : F. Scott Bobb
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014614385
Author : Samuel Decalo,Virginia Thompson,Richard Adloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035749566
Expanded and updated by one of the foremost experts on Francophone Africa, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Congo offers African scholars an easy-to-use reference source on this country.
Author : David John Simon,Jim Pletcher,Brian V. Siegel
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Africa
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073880489
In many respects, Zambia is an African success story. From a territory whose borders were drawn with minimal attention either to the ethnic geography of the day or to natural features that combined (and sometimes divided) dozens of distinct ethnic groups, rose a nation with a long record of peace that has enjoyed decades of constitutional rule, and even, in recent years, an increasingly competitive democracy. Perhaps most improbably, the country has forged a national identity. Unfortunately, peace, constitutionalism, democracy, and nationhood constantly face challenges, such as in the elections of 2006 when the ugly language of ethnic confrontation found renewed currency. Moreover, Zambia's economic record and prospects have been on the decline. After over four decades, per capita incomes are lower than they were at the dawn of independence, and 95 percent of its people live on less that $2 per day. Despite repeated efforts to diversify the economy, copper exports and foreign assistance are the main sources of the vast majority of Zambia's foreign exchange earnings. And most devastating at all, the AIDS pandemic has already lowered the average life expectancy below 40. For a country one might regard as "heading in the right direction," Zambia has a long way to go. The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Zambia, through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, map, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, provides an important reference on this African country.