Screen LibrarySouthern Africa
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The making of the contemporary world |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 155 p.: ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415310342 (hbk.) 0415310350 (pbk.) 020341618X (ebk.) 9780415310345 (hbk.) 9780415310352 (pbk.) 9780203416181 (ebk.) |
| Index Number: | K470 |
| CLC: | K470.5 |
| Call Number: | K470.5/F231 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index. List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of acronyms -- Outline chronology of main events -- Introduction -- Southern Africa defined --Consequences of the collapse of the Portuguese empire -- 1: Economic And Social Dimension -- Early European economic motivation, the slave trade and the scramble for Africa -- Portuguese colonial policy -- Rhodesian land and labour policy -- South African policy 1948-90 -- Command and market economies -- Formal and informal sectors -- Land -- Trade, aid, debt and 'breaking even' -- Southern African Development Community -- Health -- Status of wom From the Publisher: This major addition to the Making of the Contemporary World series looks at the contemporary history of the whole Southern African region, focusing mainly on the period since 1974 to the present, but drawing on the post-war period as background. 1974/5 saw the collapse of Portugal's African empire and Jonathan Farley asserts that this set in train a whole range of developments in the southern part of the continent which led to the current situation. The book is thematically structured and looks at all aspects of Southern Africa-economic and social, political, security, fo |