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Currency and Coercion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Currency and Coercion

Jonathan Kirshner here examines how states can and have used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner lays the groundwork for the study of what he calls monetary power by providing a taxonomy of the forms that such power can take and of the conditions under which it can have effect. He then establishes the actual existence of monetary power by showing how the taxonomy is supported by the historical record, including cases from nations from all over the globe and throughout the twentieth century. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and ...

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1318
Research in African Literatures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Research in African Literatures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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There was a Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

There was a Country

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long awaited memoir of coming of age with a fragile new nation only to watch it torn asunder in a tragic civil war. The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. By then, Chinua Achebe was already a world-renowned novelist, with a young family to protect. He took the Biafran side in the conflict and served his government as a roving cultural ambassador, from which vantage he absorbe...

Perspectives on Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 713

Perspectives on Africa

The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization

West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 796

West Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A - Günther
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 449

A - Günther

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, ; Walravens, Hartmut; Olejniczak, Ursula; Schmiedecke, Käthe: Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien 1959-1988 (IBB). Personennamenregister / A - Günther.

Bibliographie der Staats-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1244

Bibliographie der Staats-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Nigeria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

Nigeria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: ABC-CLIO

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