Catastrophe [[electronic resource] ] : what went wrong in Zimbabwe? / / Richard Bourne

• Autore: Bourne Richard
• Pubblicazione: London, : Zed Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 968.91
• Soggetto geografico: Zimbabwe History 1980-; Zimbabwe Politics and government 1980-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Glossary of acronyms, personalities, organisations -- Timeline -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Prologue: two birthdays -- Conquest -- White supremacy and the settler state -- From UDI to Lancaster House -- ZANU in power - the 1980's -- The 1990's - when the wheels began to fall off -- Disaster years, and the third chimurenga -- From Operation Murambatsvina to an inclusive government -- How did it go wrong? -- Select bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty years later. Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe 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. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards them." --Publisher's website.
• Titolo autorizzato: Catastrophe
• ISBN: 1-78032-107-4; 1-283-23858-6; 9786613238580; 1-84813-522-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461458203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II