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UNINA9910458017403321 |
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Titolo |
Becoming Zimbabwe [[electronic resource] ] : a history from the pre-colonial period to 2008 / / edited by Brian Raftopoulos and A. S. Mlambo |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Harare, : Weaver Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-86896-9 |
9786612868962 |
1-77922-121-5 |
1-77922-120-7 |
1-77922-099-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Zimbabwe History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Reflections on pre-colonial Zimbabwe, c. 850-1880s / Gerald Chikozho Mazarire -- Mapping cultural and colonial encounters, 1880s-1930s / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- From the Second World War to UDI, 1940-1965 / A.S. Mlambo -- Social and economic developments during the UDI period / Joseph Mtisi, Munyaredzi Nyakudye and Teresa Barnes -- From buoyancy to crisis, 1980-1997 / James Muzondidya -- The Crisis in Zimbabwe, 1998-2008 / Brian Raftopoulos. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule, the changing contour |
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