Cry my beloved Africa : essays on the postcolonial aura in Africa / / Peter Wuteh Vakunta
| Cry my beloved Africa : essays on the postcolonial aura in Africa / / Peter Wuteh Vakunta |
| Autore | Vakunta Peter W |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (98 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Essays
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development |
| ISBN |
9786613198051
9781283198059 1283198053 9789956715862 9956715867 9789956715985 9956715980 9789956615841 9956615846 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The trouble with Africa -- A nation at risk -- A celebration of diversity -- False start in post-colonial Africa -- It's a battlefield -- Discourse on gender in Africa -- African time and other Africanisms -- Manufacturing the illusion of freedom -- Myth about Africa's collective amnesia -- A continent's dirty linen -- Phantoms of the past -- Path to rebirth -- Hitler in Africa -- Aporia : Africa's demo-dictators -- Africa's tsunami -- Rite of passage or unsafe ordeal. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910974599403321 |
Vakunta Peter W
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| Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges : Journeys Through the Borderlands of History
| Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges : Journeys Through the Borderlands of History |
| Autore | Jameson Elizabeth |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Calgary : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (446 pages) |
| Collana | The West Series |
| Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
HISTORY / Essays HISTORY / General |
| ISBN |
1-77385-663-4
1-77385-664-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Thresholds: 2000-2002 -- 1 | Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush -- 2 | Guns to Butter: Reconceiving the American West -- 3 | The Heart of Gold: Working-Class Voices from the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District -- Borders: Walls and Bridges: 2003-2007 -- 4 | Telling Differences: The 49th Parallel, the West, and the Histories of Two Nations -- 5 | Dancing on the Rim, Tiptoeing through the Minefields: Challenges and Promises of the Borderlands -- 6 | God, Santa, and the American Way: The U.S. Alaska Reindeer Project -- Bridging: 2008-2011 -- 7 | Race in America: Reflections onthe 40th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report -- 8 | Remembering Ludlow: The 1913-1914 Coal Strike and the Politicsof Public Memory -- 9 | Women Who Crossed a Line: Canadian Single Women Homesteaders in the U.S. West -- Bridges: Blocked, Crossed, and Under Construction: 2012-2014 -- 10 | Are We There Yet? Personal and Historical Reflections on Women in Higher Education -- 11 | Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall: Symbolism and Social Change -- 12 | "Use My Broken Heart": Making Change Out of Tragedy -- Approaching the Next Threshold: 2015-2017 -- 13 | Halfway Across That Line: Gender at the Threshold of History in the North American Wests -- 14 | Torches Passed and Present -- Coda -- Epilogue: The Times They Are a-Changin' -- Index -- Back Cover. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911031546503321 |
Jameson Elizabeth
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| Calgary : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2025 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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