Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848135208)
Vendor:
Richard Bourne
Product type:
Books
- $115.00
$115.00- $115.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$115.00
Description
xNo 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, this 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.Author: Richard Bourne
ISBN-10: 1848135203
ISBN-13: 9781848135208
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2012
By Richard Bourne
xRichard Bourne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, and a former journalist. He has written and a number of books, including Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century (Zed, 2015).
Richard Bourne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, and a former journalist. He has written and a number of books, including Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century (Zed, 2015).
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.