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Catastrophe : what went wrong in Zimbabwe? /
"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 thi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848135222 184813522X 1283238586 9781283238588 1780321074 9781780321073 9786613238580 6613238589 |