03119nam 2200673 450 991078964270332120210311111955.01-350-21891-X1-78032-107-41-283-23858-697866132385801-84813-522-X10.5040/9781350218918(CKB)2670000000113593(OCoLC)756844226(CaPaEBR)ebrary10500241(SSID)ssj0000528212(PQKBManifestationID)12149519(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000528212(PQKBWorkID)10549358(PQKB)11397897(MiAaPQ)EBC765173(Au-PeEL)EBL765173(CaPaEBR)ebr10500241(CaONFJC)MIL323858(OCoLC)748242107(CaBNVSL)9781350218918(EXLCZ)99267000000011359320210311e20212021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCatastrophe what went wrong in Zimbabwe? /Richard BourneLondon, England :Zed Books,©2011.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (322 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-84813-521-1 1-84813-520-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-290) and index.Prologue : two birthdays -- Conquest -- White supremacy and the settler state -- From UDI to Lancaster House -- ZANU in power : the 1980s -- When the wheels began to fall off : the 1990s -- Disaster years and the third chimurenga -- From Operation Murambatsvina to an inclusive government -- How did it go wrong?"No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later, plagued by hyperinflation and collapsing life expectancy and abandoned by a third of its citizens. Beginning with the British conquest and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards it."--Page [4] of book cover.Politics & governmentbicsscZimbabwePolitics and government1980-ZimbabwePolitics and government20th centuryZimbabweEconomic policyZimbabweEconomic conditionsPolitics & government968.91051Bourne Richard1940-1086927NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910789642703321Catastrophe3732010UNINA