{"product_id":"mozambiques-samora-machel-allen-f-isaacman-9780821424230","title":"Mozambique's Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamora Machel (1933-1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their Portuguese colonists and became the first president of the People's Republic of Mozambique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMachel's military successes against a colonial regime backed by South Africa, Rhodesia, the United States, and its NATO allies enhanced his reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed people of Southern Africa. In 1986, during the country's civil war, Machel died in a plane crash under circumstances that remain uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllen and Barbara Isaacman lived through many of these changes in Mozambique and bring personal recollections together with archival research and interviews with others who knew Machel or participated in events of the revolutionary or post-revolutionary years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821424238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821424230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllen F. Isaacman\u003c\/b\u003e, Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape, is the author of seven books, including the co-authored (with Barbara Isaacman) \u003ci\u003eDams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the ASA Book Prize (formerly Herskovits Award) and the AHA Klein Prize in African History. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara S. Isaacman\u003c\/b\u003e, a retired criminal defense attorney, worked with the Mozambican Woman's Movement (O.M.M.) and taught at the Law Faculty of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane while living in Mozambique in the late 1970s. She wrote \u003ci\u003eMozambique--Women, the Law, and Agrarian Reform\u003c\/i\u003e and co-authored with Allen several books, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eDams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen F. Isaacman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047595864319,"sku":"9780821424230","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_539aad2c-7d8b-4b6c-9c8a-b6d84804fe03.jpg?v=1684991119","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mozambiques-samora-machel-allen-f-isaacman-9780821424230","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}